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Banned Park still has his sights set on Rio
Swimmer Park Tae-hwan, right, and his coach Roh Min-sang arrive at Incheon International Airport on Saturday after finishing his training in Japan. [NEWSIS]
Suspended swimmer Park Tae-hwan is still hopeful that he will be able to compete in the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Returning to Korea on Saturday from Japan - where he has been training with coach Roh Min-sang - Park said, “I’ve been training really hard for the last three months. Before I went to Japan, I had been building my physical fitness with coach Roh. [In Japan] I raised my condition and focused on upgrading durability.”
The 26-year-old Park is currently under suspension after he received an 18-month ban from FINA, the international swimming governing body, for testing positive for testosterone on Sept. 23, 2014. The six medals he won at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon were disqualified.
Under FINA regulations, an athlete serving a doping suspension “cannot participate in a training camp, exhibition or practice organized by his or her Member Federation or a club which is a member of that Member Federation or FINA or which is funded by a governmental agency.”
The 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the men’s 400-meter freestyle had been working out at a public pool in Seoul since June, but could only train two hours a day as it had to be available for public use.
Park then planned to train at Hosei University in Tokyo, where he previously trained in 2007 prior to the 2008 Beijing Summer Games. However, the two-time FINA World Championship winner couldn’t reach an agreement with the Japanese university and instead settled in Osaka.
Park has been training at the outdoor pool in Osaka, which has international standard 50-meter (160-feet) lanes. From December, he moved to an indoor pool which has a 25-meter lane pool under the training program set by Roh.
The 59-year-old coach went to Japan last week to check his training status.
“His fitness is better than when he was preparing for the 2008 Summer Games,” Roh said. “I focused to upgrade his stamina with an intense training program. The weather was alright, and his chronic shoulder pain also got better.”
Park’s suspension ends on March 2, 2016, but under the FINA rule, he is allowed to train at national facilities two months before the expiration of his punishment.
But first, the 1.83-meter swimmer, nicknamed “Marine Boy,” will train at the Olympic Swimming Pool in Songpa District, southern Seoul, from this week. The public pool is associated with neither the Korea Swimming Federation nor the Korean Olympic Committee.
“The first phase of his training is completed,” Roh said. “The pool conditions for Park aren’t good, so we will solve this step by step.”
Park, who has six gold medals in the Asian Games, has been claiming he was injected with an illegal substance named “Nebido” without his knowledge and is suing a doctor who gave him the shot.
Local prosecutors last month recommended a 10-month jail term with a fine of 1 million won ($850) for the doctor. The court will rule on the doctor’s sentence on Thursday.
Although Park is working to get in shape for the Summer Games, it is still unclear whether he can compete in Brazil.
Under a rule from the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC), athletes who have served a drug suspension are ineligible to compete for the country for three years, starting on the day the suspension ends.
Some people have been pushing the KOC to scrap the rule, as they feel it punishes the athlete twice. The KOC recently said it will discuss possible adjustments to the rule in March after it finishes administrative issues to unify the local sports federations.
“I don’t know how things will turn out in the future, but I will keep trying to show good form,” Park said.
BY JOO KYUNG-DON [joo.kyungdon@joongang.co.kr]
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Chung Hyeon is sitting pretty for the 3rd time this month
Korean tennis player Chung Hyeon has achieved a career high in the men’s world rankings for the third time in a month.
Chung moved up three spots to reach No. 44 in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world rankings released Monday. Four weeks ago, Chung cracked the top 50 for the first time by sitting No. 49.
Chung is the third-highest-ranked Asian player in men’s singles. He is behind Japanese players Kei Nishikori (No. 14) and Yuichi Sugita (No. 42).
Retired player Lee Hyung-taik owns the record for the highest-ranking position by a Korean player at No. 36, attained in August 2007.
Chung was eliminated in the second round at the U.S. Open on Aug. 30 after losing to John Isner in straight sets at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. The 21-year-old also suffered a second-round exit in men’s doubles at the U.S. Open last week, but his doubles ranking soared from No. 697 to No. 377.
Korea ties 2-2 with China at AFC U-16 opener
Korea on Sunday tied 2-2 with China in a grueling opening match at the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship held in Thailand.
In the match, held at the Institute of Physical Education Stadium in Chonburi, Korea gave up their first goal to Zhang Linyan’s right-foot shot 11 minutes in to the game.
Korea’s Hwang Ah-hyeon leveled the match with an equalizer 14 minutes into the second half, and Kim Bit-na added another point nine minutes later. The Koreans seemed certain to win until Tang Han salvaged a crucial point to end the game in a 2-2 draw.
Korea will face fellow Group A competitors Thailand and Laos on Wednesday and Saturday, respectively. The top two teams will elevate to the next round. The country won the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship in 2009 but has not been able to reach the top three rankings since.
National team head coach says they’re ready to pounce
Korea’s national football team head coach Shin Tae-yong said Monday his side will play attacking football in upcoming friendly matches for its preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Korea clinched its ninth consecutive World Cup appearance last week after finishing runners-up in Group A in the final Asian qualifying round. In Asia, the top two teams each in Groups A and B directly advance to the World Cup in Russia, while third-placed teams have to enter playoffs to earn a berth.
Although Shin led Korea to the World Cup, he was criticized by fans here for uninspiring performances against Iran and Uzbekistan. Korea finished their last two qualifying matches with scoreless draws.
Shin, who took over the helm in June, admitted that his side put the emphasis on defense in the last two matches, but with a World Cup ticket in his hands, he will display his usual attacking style of football in friendlies next month.
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Adsorption of Fe(III), Co(II) and Zn(II) onto particulates in fresh waters on the basis of the surface complexation model I. Stabilities of metal species adsorbed on particulates
Susumu Osaki, Tomoko Miyoshi, Shinji Sugihara, Yoshimasa Takashima
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A quantitative description of the adsorption of metal ions was attempted for particulates in three fresh waters on the basis of the surface complexation model. Fine particles in sediment at the same sites, and three pure materials, namely quartz, silicagel and kaolin, were also examined for comparison. The stabilities with Fe(III), Co(II) and Zn(II) tend to decrease from fine sediments to particulates and kaolin, and finally to silicagel and quartz. The apparent stabilities of these metal species on particulates are similar to those of their citrate complexes and are slightly higher than those of their glycine complexes.
Science of the Total Environment, The
https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-9697(90)90215-G
出版済み - 12 1 1990
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Complexation Engineering & Materials Science 100%
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Osaki, S., Miyoshi, T., Sugihara, S., & Takashima, Y. (1990). Adsorption of Fe(III), Co(II) and Zn(II) onto particulates in fresh waters on the basis of the surface complexation model I. Stabilities of metal species adsorbed on particulates. Science of the Total Environment, The, 99(1-2), 105-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-9697(90)90215-G
Adsorption of Fe(III), Co(II) and Zn(II) onto particulates in fresh waters on the basis of the surface complexation model I. Stabilities of metal species adsorbed on particulates. / Osaki, Susumu; Miyoshi, Tomoko; Sugihara, Shinji; Takashima, Yoshimasa.
In: Science of the Total Environment, The, Vol. 99, No. 1-2, 01.12.1990, p. 105-114.
Osaki, S, Miyoshi, T, Sugihara, S & Takashima, Y 1990, 'Adsorption of Fe(III), Co(II) and Zn(II) onto particulates in fresh waters on the basis of the surface complexation model I. Stabilities of metal species adsorbed on particulates', Science of the Total Environment, The, vol. 99, no. 1-2, pp. 105-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-9697(90)90215-G
Osaki S, Miyoshi T, Sugihara S, Takashima Y. Adsorption of Fe(III), Co(II) and Zn(II) onto particulates in fresh waters on the basis of the surface complexation model I. Stabilities of metal species adsorbed on particulates. Science of the Total Environment, The. 1990 12 1;99(1-2):105-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-9697(90)90215-G
Osaki, Susumu ; Miyoshi, Tomoko ; Sugihara, Shinji ; Takashima, Yoshimasa. / Adsorption of Fe(III), Co(II) and Zn(II) onto particulates in fresh waters on the basis of the surface complexation model I. Stabilities of metal species adsorbed on particulates. In: Science of the Total Environment, The. 1990 ; Vol. 99, No. 1-2. pp. 105-114.
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Benefits of playing games online
August 20, 2021 Lewis CarrollComments Off on Benefits of playing games online
Gamers are commonly stereotyped as being too sheltered, but this is not the case. The growth of multi-player online experiences has ushered in a new type of socialization in which players collaborate to solve challenges. According to studies, games can also be a catalyst for friends to get together in person: around 70% of all players play with friends at least some of the time. There are many other reasons that why games are beneficial.
VIDEO GAMES CAN HELP PATIENTS WITH SCLEROSIS IMPROVE BALANCE.
Numerous sclerosis patients frequently experience balance issues as a result of the disorder’s multiple nerve involvement—and no drugs have been demonstrated to help. Patients with MS who played activities that required physical engagement while standing on a balance board, however, exhibited improvement thereafter, according to one study.
THEY CAN ASSIST YOU IN BETTERING YOUR DECISION-MAKING SKILLS.
We’ve all met someone who appears to have a faster CPU than the rest of us, capable of retrieving data or reacting in a fraction of a second. For some people, gaming can help them improve their abilities. Players are pushed to adapt rapidly since new information is frequently provided throughout the play. In one study, players involved in fast-paced games were 25% faster than non-players in responding to questions concerning a picture they had just viewed. You can play games at เกมน่าเล่น.
CRAVINGS CAN BE CURED BY PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.
Instead of reaching for a controller, players who are focused on overeating, smoking, or drinking could be better served by reaching for a controller. A university study found that playing a puzzle game reduced people’s desire for their vice of choice by 24%.
STRESS CAN BE REDUCED BY PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.
While some games are supposed to be stressful, especially when your character is killed for the hundredth time, the contrary is sometimes true. According to a large study that tracked players for six months and evaluated heart rate, certain games reduced adrenaline response by almost 50%.
GAMERS MAY BE LESS PRONE TO BULLYING.
While the claim is debatable, some experts believe that action games can lessen a bully’s incentive to bully. One experiment in which participants took on the roles of both the hero and the villain found that those in charge of the bad guy’s acts felt more sorrow for their actions.
VIDEO GAMES CAN ASSIST IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AUTISM.
Gamers who use systems that use the complete body to control onscreen movement have been proven to be more active in celebrating triumphs with their peers, which contrasts with the lack of communication seen in those with autism. According to a study, sharing space with numerous players helps boost social engagement for people with the illness.
Relationships and play
One of the most good ways to keep relationships new and intriguing is to play with them. Relationships gain delight, vibrancy, and resilience when people play together. Resentments, conflicts, and hurts can all be healed through play. We learn to trust other people and feel safe through regular play. We can work together, open ourselves up to intimacy, and attempt new things because we have trust. You may increase the quality of your love relationships, as well as your relationships with coworkers, family members, and friends, by making a conscious effort to incorporate more humor and play into your daily interactions.
The value of Game titles in Our Day by day Lives
September 6, 2021 Lewis Carroll
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» Jack Knight
Jack Knight
Surname Knight
Given Name Jack
Born 29 May 1917
Died 2 Feb 1945
Category Military-Ground
ww2dbaseJack L. Knight was born to Roy and Martha Knight in Garner, Texas, United States. After graduating from Weatherford Junior College in 1938, Knight and his two brothers, Curtis and Loyd, enlisted in Troop F, 124th Cavalry Regiment (Special), Texas National Guard, based out of Mineral Wells. The 124th Cavalry was transferred to India in 1940, unmounted to become an infantry unit and was incorporated into the 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) "Mars Task Force".
ww2dbaseOn 2 Feb 1945, near Loi-Kang, Burma, First Lieutenant Knight led his troops up a hill, killing two Japanese soldiers en route while charging fully exposed, yelling "[t]here's nothing up here, come on!" As his men moved forward cautiously, Knight scouted the frontlines alone, taking out a pillbox with a grenade in the process. However, Knight soon discovered they were surrounded on three sides by a U-shaped enemy formation, and decided he must lead his men to back out of the ambush. Despite shrapnel wound to his face that nearly blinded him with blood, he led an attack which took down another enemy position. A Japanese grenade wounded him, dropping him to the ground, and his brother Curtis attempted to run to his side to aid him, but was wounded by machine gun fire in the process. Knight ordered some of his men to get his brother out of harm's way, while Knight himself ran up to the sixth pillbox he attacked during the battle. As he ran toward the sixth pillbox, he was killed by Japanese rifle fire.
ww2dbaseFor the brave at the battle that was later christened the Battle of Knight's Hill by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Knight was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the only Medal of Honor awarded to the infantry in the China-Burma-India theater. Colonel William Osborne, commander of the 124th Cavalry, said
the action of Lieutenant Knight in leading his troop against a strong enemy will always remain as the finest example of American courage, valor, and leadership of any officer I have had under my command. It is officers of Lieutenant Knight's caliber who are winning the war-not colonels and generals.
ww2dbaseKnight's 6 Jun 1945 Medal of Honor citation read as follows:
He led his cavalry troop against heavy concentrations of enemy mortar, artillery and small-arms fire. After taking the troop's objective and while making preparations for a defense, he discovered a nest of Japanese pillboxes and foxholes to the right front. Preceding his men by at least 10 feet, he immediately led an attack. Singlehandedly he knocked out 2 enemy pillboxes and killed the occupants of several foxholes. While attempting to knock out a third pillbox, he was struck and blinded by an enemy grenade. Although unable to see, he rallied his platoon and continued forward in the assault on the remaining pillboxes. Before the task was completed he fell mortally wounded. First Lieutenant Knight's gallantry and intrepidity were responsible for the successful elimination of most of the Japanese positions and served as an inspiration to officers and men of his troop.
ww2dbaseOn 14 Oct 1972, Mountbatten dedicated a marble marker at Mineral Wells, Texas to honor Knight and the rest of the Troop F of the 124th Cavalry Regiment (Special). Knight rests in peace at Holders Memorial Chapel Cemetery at Cool, Texas.
ww2dbaseSources: Vinegar Joe's War, World War II US Cavalry Units.
Last Major Revision: Nov 2005
Jack Knight Timeline
29 May 1917 Jack Knight was born.
2 Feb 1945 Lieutenant Jack L. Knight of Mars Task Force led an attack up a 400-foot only to find at the summit that they had entered a horseshoe shaped Japanese strongpoint. Wounded several times and with carbine ammunition exhausted, Knight organized another attack and was finally killed whilst tackling a sixth bunker. For his gallantry, Knight would ultimately be awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor, the only such infantry award made in the China-Burma-India theatre of war.
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Gomorrah
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Based on Roberto Saviano's Best-Selling Exposé of the Naples Mafia.
Power, money and blood: these are the ‘values’ that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the ‘System’, the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of a leading a ‘normal’ life.
Five stories are woven together in this violent scenario, set in a cruel and ostensibly invented world, but one that is deeply rooted in reality.
Don Ciro is “il sottomarino”. He pays the families of the prisoners that are affiliated with his clan, a clan that has the undisputed command of the territory. He is sharp, discreet and carries out his job without getting involved. But at a certain point the clan begins to crumble. Unsure who to take orders from, he has to worry about his own survival.
Totò is 13 years old and can’t wait to “grow up”. So he begins his training in the school of life, one step at a time, until one day he has to make a decision, an irreversible choice.
Marco and Ciro think they are living in a Brian de Palma film, but in the eyes of the ‘system’ they are only two stray dogs whose acts of bravado are disturbing the orderly routine of business.
Roberto is a university graduate and wants to work. Franco offers him a great opportunity, steady employment with good earning prospects: a job in the field of toxic waste management. But the reality of his task is too disconcerting to Roberto’s conscience.
Pasquale is a talented tailor who works under the table for a small enterprise subcontracted by the haute couture clothes industry. Chinese competitors give him the opportunity to teach the secrets of his trade to their workers. He is seduced and gratified by the opportunity and accepts, putting his life in danger.
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Lake Rotomahana: Lost and found Pink Terraces in New Zealand
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During the 19th century, Lake Rotomahana’s famous Pink and White Terraces were described as the Eighth Wonder of the World.
The terraces were New Zealand’s most famous attraction for intrepid tourists, until the massive volcanic eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10, 1886 destroyed them and buried two villages. Their photographs, postcards, and paintings are all that remain to remind us of the splendor of these natural masterpieces.
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The geothermal Pink and White Terraces formed over thousands of years by two geysers spouting above Lake Rotomahana. The geysers’ waters were laced with silica that cascaded down the hillside, forming pink and white terraces with pools of water at the bottom.
Portions of the famed Pink Terraces have been discovered by an international team of researchers using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to map the lake’s bottom.
Covered by sediment, pink crescent-shaped structures lie under 200 feet (60 meters) of water where the Pink Terraces were located. In the words of one researcher: “For New Zealanders, this is the equivalent to finding the Titanic.”
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Scientists found no evidence of the White Terraces at their location prior to 1886. The discovery has been emotional for Maori whose ancestors were buried in the eruption. The images also revealed a massive geothermal system with underwater vents, raising the possibility of power generation in the future.
Lake Rotomahana is one of 16 Rotorua Lakes in the Lake District of New Zealand’s North Island, all of which are volcanic in origin. With active geothermal fields, it’s no wonder that Rotomahana means “warm lake.”
What’s the best way to see Lake Rotomahana?
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The best way to appreciate the lake’s beauty and unique ecosystem is by guided boat cruise, which provides the closest encounters with a volcanic crater, hot springs, geysers, fumeroles, and steaming cliffs.
Lake Rotomahana also boasts having the “purest strain of rainbow trout in the world.” The lake has been protected from development, so it will remain a natural wilderness and wildlife refuge where both native and exotic birds live year round.
Today’s tourists can visit a smaller version of the Pink and White Terraces, approximately 60 miles south of Lake Rotomahana near Lake Taupo.
The original Wairakei Terraces and geysers disappeared with the construction of the Wairakei Geothermal Power Plant in the 1950s. A cooperative effort between Contact Energy and local Maori re-created the terraces with a man-made geyser originating at the Wairakei geothermal power plant.
Hot silica-enriched waters channeled over man-made foundations created new silica terraces. Although helped by human intervention, Mother Nature is perfecting cascading terraces in dramatic pinks, whites, and blues.
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New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition was created in 2012. It seeks to lift 50 million people out of poverty by 2022 through partnerships between G7 members, African nations, and the private sector. The New Alliance’s goal is to increase food production, accelerate responsible investment in African agriculture and commit to good governance and coordinated policy reforms.
In order to achieve these goals, each of the nine New Alliance countries (Benin, Malawi, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania) have developed country-specific Cooperation Frameworks with G7 and private sector partners that outline their shared commitments and responsibilities. Development partners commit to fund efforts to promote inclusive and transformative agricultural investments. Partners work together to identify Enabling Actions that will help to improve the business environment for responsible investing and inclusive, agriculture-led growth. Private sector partners commit, via Letters of Intent, to pursue agricultural investments in the New Alliance Countries. Countries, in turn, commit to policy reform efforts and report on their progress towards implementing commitments made in Cooperation Frameworks. The 2014-2015 Annual Progress Report states that as of June 2015, 33 percent of policy commitments were completed and 59 percent showed good progress. 4 percent of commitments showed no progress.
Recognizing that clear, secure and negotiable rights to land and resources are essential for agricultural growth, New Alliance partners commit to operate in a manner consistent with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) and with the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (RAI).
US Releases First National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct
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Smith & Wesson Watches
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In 1852, Horace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson joined forces to manufacture a firearm that could fire a fully self-contained carried. From day one of their inception, Smith & Wesson firearms grew in mass popularity due to their accomplishments in bringing the best designs and top quality productions to the tactical market.
Today, Smith & Wesson pistols and revolvers have become the standard issue for law enforcement officers and armed forces throughout the world. But S&W are so much more than just firearms. With their continued expansion into other lines, the Smith and Wesson name is behind superior products such as firearm magazines, tactical flashlights, tactical knives, and a wide variety of duty gear accessories. And it doesn't stop there. Smith and Wesson even offers their brand name to tactical boots, tactical bags and packs, tactical pens and fun, stylish apparel, to name a few more lines on their list.
When you purchase a tactical knife, having the name Smith and Wesson branded on the item will give you the reliability and dependability you've always associated with the name. The S&W Border Guard Folding knife is one of the most popular knives in the S & W line. Whether you're in law enforcement, security personnel, EMS or simply an outdoor hiker and camper, the Smith & Wesson Border Guard knife comes with a glass breaking tool, a lanyard hole, strap cutter and pocket clip to name a few of the attached accessories. Since the Border Guard Knife is so versatile, it can be used both on and off duty, in extreme and hazardous situations and even around the home for the most basic of tasks.
LA Police Gear knows that most law enforcement officers choose the Smith and Wesson Handcuffs brand while on the job. Not only are the Smith & Wesson Handcuffs manufactured from the best quality carbon steel, they also include double locks to prevent tampering. And again, with the S & W name imprinted on these handcuffs, police officers can always count on a product that won't fail, and will continue to function smoothly as long as the job does.
With products designed specifically for law enforcement officers and military members, Smith & Wesson continues to offer the superior function and reliability that is know and expected behind their name. And LAPG continues to carry their ever-expanding line of performance enhanced and superior products.
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Nourishment from Good Stories: On Gianrico Carofiglio’s “The Measure of Time”
June 28, 2021 • By Glenn Harper
The Measure of Time
GIANRICO CAROFIGLIO IS one of the most distinctive voices in the wave of Italian crime fiction of recent years, which has brought novels from and about at least every province, if not every town, from Sicily and Calabria in the South to Venice and Alto Adige in the North. Carofiglio is a former prosecutor, judge, and senator whose most famous series of novels features defense attorney Guido Guerrieri, who practices law in the author’s hometown, Bari, in the province of Puglia (the heel of the Italian boot). In addition, Carofiglio has another series set in Bari in the recent past, centered on Marshal Pietro Fenoglio of the Carabinieri, as well as a number of stand-alone novels.
The sixth Guerrieri novel, The Measure of Time, begins with the attorney’s arrival in his office, asking his assistant, Pasquale, about what is on the agenda for the day. Guido pauses his first-person narration to sketch a quick portrait of Pasquale using a literary device, a totemic object associated with a character: in Pasquale’s case a spiral notebook he always carries. But the attorney characteristically turns the momentary glimpse of his assistant into an observation about ordinary life: “Each one of us has something that identifies us and with which, assuming we’re aware of it, we identify.” The lawyer’s musings about the structure and meaning of everyday life punctuate the narrative throughout the novel, and, indeed, the series: Guido’s interior persona, the stream of thought that is his narrative, is frequently meditative, philosophical, and digressive (not coincidentally, he is currently reading Tristram Shandy, that most digressive of novels).
Pasquale informs the lawyer that a new client has made an appointment, a woman who only gave her last name: Delle Foglie, a name that triggers the memory of a brief love affair in Guido’s youth, 27 years earlier, with a woman he had almost forgotten, Lorenza Delle Foglie. This glimpse into the past triggers a sense of ennui or even dread regarding his current way of life: “[F]or some years now legal papers had been filling me with a sense of nausea, and the syndrome was getting slowly but inexorably worse.” The feeling plunges Guido into a meditation about two kinds of death, one metaphorical (a death in “the sense of stopping what we’re doing when we realize we’ve exhausted our desire to do it”) and the other literal (with the memory of a recent encounter with a colleague whose mother has recently died). The encounter with the bereaved colleague leads to a long digression about life, death, and what his own now-deceased parents had given him, including a “notion of honesty,” “respect for others,” and “a love of ideas.” Those attributes (not necessarily virtues in the Italian legal system as Carofiglio portrays it), along with the narrator’s self-deprecating wit, provide a concise description of Guido’s character and of the stories that Carofiglio tells about him in this series.
As he waits for the arrival of Signora Delle Foglie, we begin to be introduced to other members of the circle of Guido’s associates, including his partner Consuelo, his investigators (Carmelo, a former policeman, and Annapaola, a former crime reporter and Guido’s current girlfriend), and the irrepressible Mr. Punchbag, a constant presence in the series. Mr. Punchbag is a much-used, somewhat tattered punching bag that Guido employs not only for exercise but also as a silent partner in frequent one-sided conversations. When his new client arrives, it is indeed the former lover, Lorenza, and their awkward reunion sets into motion the two main strands of the story: the legacy of their brief affair and the arrest and conviction of her son, Iacopo Cardace, for the murder of a drug dealer. Iacopo’s original attorney has died, and Lorenza approaches Guido hoping to persuade him to take over the case, despite the fact that the court date for the appeal is only two weeks away.
The novel, translated by Howard Curtis, takes full advantage of one of the tropes of crime fiction: the constant repetition of the same story, from various points of view and in varied contexts. In The Measure of Time, we hear about Iacopo’s alleged crime again and again: in the research and planning by Guido and his team as they prepare to take over his appeal, in excerpts from trial transcripts, in the questioning of various witnesses, in the progress of the appeal through the courts, and in a final brief retelling that brings the story to a conclusion.
The trial transcripts are partly in a Q-and-A format, a device Carofiglio has used before to particularly interesting effect in The Cold Summer. In The Measure of Time, Lorenza’s testimony is a key factor in the case, and showing this dialogue in a Q-and-A format presents her testimony in her own voice, full of the contradictions and truths of her own life. The reader follows the intricacies of the case along with Guido as he reads Lorenza’s testimony and other texts from the trial and ponders the not-very-promising prospects of a successful appeal. Any hope of overturning the verdict seems to turn on a vague suggestion that the murdered dealer had once gotten into a bar fight with someone connected to a crime family.
The investigation of the case by Guido and the eye-opening view of what it means to be caught up in the Italian legal system are fascinating in the skepticism of Guido’s expectations of both the case and himself. His reminiscences of his long-ago affair with Lorenza provide a nostalgic and romantic counterpoint in the story of a young man’s fascination with a mysterious bohemian woman who, at his first glimpse of her, had “a face that had something old-fashioned about it, with a look in her eyes that was halfway between melancholy and arrogance.” Her arrogant side is a romantic free spirit (a writer and freelance editor as well as part-time teacher) who is a polar opposite to the young trainee lawyer about to plunge into a staid institution of fixed laws and strict (though not infrequently ignored) standards of behavior.
The other, melancholy side of Lorenza is ascendant in the present-day narrative: the mother and defender of Iacopo, a woman who, no longer a writer and editor, has cobbled together a living from marginal jobs, still a substitute teacher and now a companion (not a caregiver) for the aged (a job that takes on a key role in Iacopo’s trial). Guido is as bored with his new life as he is disillusioned about his youthful self, but Lorenza is living the life of a dropout, at the edge of desperation as she struggles to pay the bills of Iacopo’s original lawyer.
What holds together the various retellings of Iacopo’s case as well as the story of the youthful affair is Guido’s voice, always clear and straightforward while simultaneously philosophical and deeply humane. His consideration for what is right and ethical, as well as for the lives of those with whom he has direct contact, is in stark contrast to the often cynical and narcissistic voices of noir in Italy and elsewhere. In the middle of the novel, in a long digression, Guido gives a speech to a group of young trainee magistrates in which he discusses not the fine points of the law or the perspective of a defense attorney but the necessity of those involved in the legal system to recognize the complexity of reality. He advises:
A jurist must — I emphasize must — devote a sizeable part of their time to things that to all appearances have nothing to do with the law: reading good novels, watching good films, even good television. In short, they must take nourishment from good stories […] [b]ecause it’s the art of the storyteller that reminds us that there is not just one single answer to human dilemmas. These dilemmas are inevitably ambiguous.
Guido goes on to discuss ethical dilemmas, the law, and fallacious arguments, as well as the necessity of doubt. The importance of storytelling and the reiteration of the story from alternate viewpoints ultimately provide both the structure and the theme of the novel.
In a later passage, Carofiglio provides a comic contrast in Lorenza’s description of her own novel, which she had published in the years between their affair and the arrest of her son, a story that exhibits little tolerance for doubt and little interest in storytelling. Indeed, few of the jurists, criminals, and other characters that we encounter in Carofiglio’s novels show much evidence of cultivating a tolerance for ambiguity or any expanded scope of understanding that Guido is recommending (including spending time with good fiction). If Carofiglio’s novels themselves are evidence of Guido’s argument, Carofiglio keeps the tone from getting heavy or self-righteous by undercutting his philosophical thoughts with self-deprecating humor, as in one passage that also reflects his thoughts on the importance of reading. He tells Annapaola that he knows that she finds his constant literary references to be an irritating habit (though he continues to cite pertinent quotations to her).
As the trial concludes, the last of Guido’s memories of his affair with Lorenza also arrive with a different kind of ritualized language, that of fairy tales and dreams: Lorenza muses to Guido about the truth at the heart of fairy tales and about her dreams of the “Lord of Time,” and after Lorenza disappears from his life, Guido finds in the stories a truth about his experience with her: “She had been my involuntary mentor, the woman who had distractedly accompanied me through a metaphorical wood for a few months. Having emerged from that wood, I found myself alone in the open, dangerous spaces of adulthood.” In the final chapter, Carofiglio offers a path out of the dark tangle of law, time, and memory, and a final focus for all of Guido’s own musings and digressions, a reckoning that comes not from the trial but from the world beyond the court’s rationalistic facade.
Glenn Harper is the former editor of Sculpture magazine and reviews crime fiction at internationalnoir.blogspot.com.
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Hailed as “the future of American cinema” by New German Cinema’s Werner Herzog, writer/director, Harmony Korine, arrived onto the scene, at age 19, as film’s youngest credited screenwriter, with 1995’s KIDS. With a vast, varied body of work, he’s since proved himself as one of the most controversial, independent filmmakers alive today.
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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › Pennsylvania › Western District of Pennsylvania › 1940 › Fort Wayne Corrugated P. Co. v. Anchor Hocking G. Corp.
Fort Wayne Corrugated P. Co. v. Anchor Hocking G. Corp., 31 F. Supp. 403 (W.D. Pa. 1940)
US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania - 31 F. Supp. 403 (W.D. Pa. 1940)
31 F. Supp. 403 (1940)
FORT WAYNE CORRUGATED PAPER CO.
ANCHOR HOCKING GLASS CORPORATION et al.
District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.
*404 Patterson, Crawford, Arensburg & Dunn, Chas. F. C. Arensburg, and James M. Barrett, Jr., all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiff.
Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Elder W. Marshall and John C. Bayne, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant.
McVICAR, District Judge
This is a civil action by the Fort Wayne Corrugated Paper Company, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Indiana, against the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation and the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation of Pennsylvania, two corporations incorporated under the laws of Delaware. The Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation has filed two motions which are now before us: The first one dated July 11, 1939 wherein it moves the Court to quash the return of Service of the summons served on it. The second motion is dated November 17, 1939. In it, it moves to dismiss the suit alleging that this Court was without venue to hear and determine the same, and in the same motion it moves to quash the return of service of pluries summons made on it September 23, 1939. The Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation of Pennsylvania, a wholly owned and controlled subsidiary of the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation, has filed an answer. It, therefore, probably means that if the motions of the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation prevail that the same cause of action will have to be tried in two different Courts and be subject to separate appeals, etc.
The motion of the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation dated July 11, 1939 to quash the return of the service of the summons upon it June 21, 1939 is on the ground that the person served is not an officer or agent of the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation but is an officer or agent of its wholly owned and controlled subsidiary, the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation of Pennsylvania. These facts having been established, the motion should be sustained. Cannon Manufacturing Company v. Cudahy Packing Company, 1925, 267 U.S. 333, 45 S. Ct. 250, 69 L. Ed. 634; Philadelphia & R. R. Co. v. McKibbin, 1917, 243 U.S. 264, 37 S. Ct. 380, 61 L. Ed. 710; Peterson v. Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co., 1907, 205 U.S. 364, 27 S. Ct. 513, 51 L. Ed. 841; Consolidated Textile Corp. v. Gregory, 289 U.S. 85, 53 S. Ct. 529, 77 L. Ed. 1047; Mechanical Appliance Co. v. Castleman, 215 U.S. 437, 30 S. Ct. 125, 54 L. Ed. 272; La Varre v. International Paper Company, 1929, D.C., 37 F.2d 141. In Cannon Manufacturing Company v. Cudahy Packing Company, supra, it is stated [267 U.S. 333, 45 S. Ct. 251, 69 L.Ed. 634]: "* * * Through ownership of the entire capital stock and otherwise, the defendant dominates the Alabama corporation, immediately and completely, and exerts its control both commercially and financially in substantially the same way, and mainly through the same individuals, as it does over those selling branches or departments of its business not separately incorporated which are established to market the Cudahy products in other states. The existence of the Alabama company as a distinct corporate entity is, however, in all respects observed. Its books are kept separate. All transactions between the two corporations are represented by appropriate entries in their respective books in the *405 same way as if the two were wholly independent corporations. * * *" In the present case, the books of the parent corporation and those of the subsidiary corporation are kept separate.
In the motion of the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation of November 17, 1939, it moves to quash the return of service made upon it September 23, 1939. The marshal in his return on service states: "I hereby certify and return, that on the twenty-third day of September, 1939, I received the within summons and on the twenty-third day of September, 1939, at 9:50 A. M. Daylight Savings Time, I served the within summons and complaint on the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation, a foreign corporation, by serving William C. Porter, personally, who is a representative, agent and manager in charge of the Sales Department of Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation at the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation office, 811 Investment Building, Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at which time I made known the contents of the within summons to William C. Porter, agent, by reading to him and leaving with him a copy of the within summons and complaint."
The reason contended for in support of this motion is that it is not doing business in the State of Pennsylvania and that the service on William C. Porter as its agent was not service upon it. The Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation is not registered in the State of Pennsylvania nor has it appointed an agent upon whom service can be made for it. It sells glass products, including tableware and glass containers manufactured at its plant located at Lancaster, Ohio. It wholly owns and controls the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation of Pennsylvania, which formerly had a plant located at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, which was abandoned in 1938. It sells a considerable amount of its manufactured product in Pennsylvania. It has three agents in Pennsylvania for the purpose of making sales; two of these agents including the one served solicit orders. After orders have been received they are sent to the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation at Lancaster, Ohio, for acceptance or rejection. These agents, two of whom are located in Pittsburgh and one in Philadelphia, do not receive any salary. They are furnished with catalogs, order blanks and samples by the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation. Their payment is on a commission basis. They do not collect any money from purchasers. These agents lease and pay for the rental of the offices which they occupy and for telephone service.
On the office door in the Investment Building, appears the name: "Anchor Hocking Glass Corp. Hocking Division, William C. Porter, Repr." The office is listed in the Pittsburgh Telephone Directory as "Anchor Hocking Glass Corp. (Tableware Div.) Investment Bl." and in the Pittsburgh City Directory as "Anchor Hocking Glass Corp. (Tableware Div.) William C. Porter, Rep., Table glassware, 810 Investment Bldg." Similar listings and markings were made in relation to the office located in the Fulton Building.
In Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 4(d), 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c, it is stated: "The summons and complaint shall be served together. * * * Service shall be made as follows: * * *
"(3) Upon a domestic or foreign corporation or upon a partnership or other unincorporated association which is subject to suit under a common name, by delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to an officer, a managing or general agent, or to any other agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process."
In Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc., v. Philadelphia Knitting Mills Company, 3 Cir., 46 F.2d 25, 26, the Court adopted the opinion of Judge Dickinson of the District Court. In the opinion of Judge Dickinson, it is stated:
"The defendant is a corporation existing under the laws of Illinois, with main offices in Indianapolis, Ind. The defendant is a manufacturer, but markets its product by sales to those commonly called the ultimate consumer. Many of these customers are situate in the city of Philadelphia. To reach them, an office is maintained in an office building announced by the usual door sign to be the office of the `Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc., of Indianapolis.' This sign gives the corporate name of the defendant. The office is supplied with stationery carrying the letterhead of the defendant corporation, with the added designation of `Philadelphia Office.' The directory of the telephone company carries as subscriber the defendant corporation with its room number in the office building mentioned. The person upon whom the writ *406 was served carries the title of a general manager of the defendant corporation in charge of the Philadelphia office. * * * The real position of the defendant in opposing the effort of the plaintiff is disclosed in a statement of how its business is conducted. It claims that it sells its manufactured product direct to the user by a sale made from its office and warehouse in Indianapolis. It employs a large number of so-called solicitors who go from door to door in Philadelphia and elsewhere soliciting orders for hosiery. All such orders are taken by the solicitors subject to confirmation of the solicited purchase by the home office in Indianapolis and its approval. The solicitors make no deliveries, although they do carry with them samples of what they have for sale, and the purchaser buys by these samples. The product which the solicitors use as samples is a part of their soliciting outfit and under their arrangement with the defendant paid for by the solicitors. These solicitors are under the general direction of what the defendant calls a branch sales manager. This manager conducts an independent business of his own, in that his compensation is on a commission basis, and he locates his office so as to suit his convenience and that of the solicitors under him. The solicitors when they secure an order collect from the proposed buyer a sum which is equal to the commission which is ultimately to be paid by the defendant. The order when obtained is reported to the branch sales manager and by him transmitted to the main office of the defendant in Indianapolis. If approved, the purchased goods are shipped C.O.D. to the buyer; credit on account being given him for what he has paid to the solicitor. The expense of furnishing the office, telephone, advertising, bills, and all others incurred by the office are paid by the branch sales manager."
The ruling of the District Court was sustained, refusing to set aside the service on the ground that the defendant was not doing business in Pennsylvania. The present case seems to be substantially in fact the same as the case just cited, the only difference worthy of mention being that in the case cited, the solicitors for orders collected from purchasers a sum equal to their commission.
See, also, International Harvester Co. of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, 234 U.S. 579, 34 S. Ct. 944, 58 L. Ed. 1479, and the recent case of Neirbo Company et al. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., 60 S. Ct. 153, 84 L.Ed. ___, opinion of Mr. Justice Frankfurter of November 22, 1939. Under the law as laid down in the above Rule of Court and the cases cited, the service made upon William C. Porter as a managing agent of the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation was a valid service upon said corporation.
I am of the opinion that the motion to quash or set aside the service was made too late. The pluries summons was served September 23, 1939. The motion to quash said service was made November 17, 1939. The Rules of Civil Procedure require such a motion to be made within twenty days after the service of the summons and complaint. See Reference to Rules and cases infra under the discussion of Venue.
The Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation in its motion of November 17, 1939, also moved the Court to dismiss said corporation as a party defendant because it is a corporation incorporated under the laws of Delaware and hence under the Federal Venue Statute may not be sued in this Court by the plaintiff corporation incorporated under the laws of Indiana. This motion was made about five months after action was brought and the complaint and summons were served upon the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation. It was also made after the motion to quash of July 11, 1939 and after depositions had been taken at Lancaster, Ohio, at a considerable expense to the parties, and after other stipulations had been made by the parties. The Federal Statute of Venue, Sec. 51 of the Judicial Code, 28 U.S.C.A. § 112, provides that "* * * where the jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant."
In Neirbo Company et al. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., supra, it is stated by the Supreme Court [60 S.Ct. 154]:
"The jurisdiction of the federal courts their power to adjudicate is a grant of authority to them by Congress and thus beyond the scope of litigants to confer. But the locality of a law suit the place where judicial authority may be exercised though defined by legislation relates to the convenience of litigants and as such is *407 subject to their disposition. This basic difference between the court's power and the litigant's convenience is historic in the federal courts. After a period of confusing deviation it was firmly reestablished in General Inv. Co. v. Lake Shore & M. S. R. Co., 260 U.S. 261, 43 S. Ct. 106, 67 L. Ed. 244; and Lee v. Chesapeake & Ohio R. Co., 260 U.S. 653, 43 S. Ct. 230, 67 L. Ed. 443, over-ruling Ex parte Wisner, 203 U.S. 449, 27 S. Ct. 150, 51 L. Ed. 264, and qualifying In re Moore, 209 U.S. 490, 28 S. Ct. 585, 706, 52 L. Ed. 904, 14 Ann.Cas. 1164. All the parties may be non-residents of the district where suit is brought. Lee v. Chesapeake & Ohio R. Co., supra. Section 51 `merely accords to the defendant a personal privilege respecting the venue, or place of suit, which he may assert, or may waive, at his election.' Commercial Casualty Ins. Co. v. Consolidated Stone Co., 278 U.S. 177, 179, 49 S. Ct. 98, 99, 73 L. Ed. 252.
"Being a privilege, it may be lost. It may be lost by failure to assert it seasonably, by formal submission in a cause, or by submission through conduct. Commercial Casualty Ins. Co. v. Consolidated Stone Co., supra. Whether such surrender of a personal immunity be conceived negatively as a waiver or positively as a consent to be sued, is merely an expression of literary preference. The essence of the matter is that courts affix to conduct consequences as to place of suit consistent with the policy behind § 51 [28 U.S.C.A. § 112], which is `to save defendants from inconveniences to which they might be subjected if they could be compelled to answer in any district, or wherever found.'"
In Commercial Casualty Ins. Co. v. Consolidated Stone Co., 278 U.S. 177, 179, 180, 49 S. Ct. 98, 99, 73 L. Ed. 252, the Court in discussing jurisdiction and venue stated:
"The pertinent statutes are sections 41 and 112, title 28, United States Code (28 U.S.C.A. §§ 41, 112). One provides that district courts shall have `original jurisdiction' of certain classes of civil suits, including suits `between citizens of different states,' where the value of the matter in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, exceeds $3,000. The other provides that `where the jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different states, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant.'
"These provisions often have been examined and construed by this court. Summarized, the decisions are directly to the effect that the first provision invests each of the District Courts with general jurisdiction of all civil suits between citizens of different states, where the matter in controversy is of the requisite pecuniary value, and that the other provision does not detract from that general jurisdiction, but merely accords to the defendant a personal privilege respecting the venue, or place of suit, which he may assert, or may waive, at his election.
"The decisions also make it plain that the privilege must be `seasonably' asserted; else it is waived. Whether there was a seasonable assertion in the present case is the real question to be determined.
"We are of the opinion that the privilege is of such a nature that it must be asserted at latest before the expiration of the period allotted for entering a general appearance and challenging the merits."
See, also, Wabash R. Co. v. Bridal, 8 Cir., 94 F.2d 117. In Findlay et al. v. Florida East Coast R. Co., 5 Cir., 68 F.2d 540, on page 541, Judge Hutcheson says: "It is undoubtedly true that the venue privilege accorded by section 51, Jud.Code (28 U.S.C.A. § 112), to a defendant sued in a federal court other than that of his or the plaintiff's residence, must be timely, effectively, and continuously asserted by him, and acts or conduct inconsistent with its assertion will constitute a waiver of it. Burnrite Coal Briquette Co. v. Riggs, 274 U.S. 208, 47 S. Ct. 578, 71 L. Ed. 1002; Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. W. L. Shepherd Lumber Co. [5 Cir.], 51 F.2d 153."
In Rules of Civil Procedure 12(a), 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c, it is stated: "A defendant shall serve his answer within 20 days after the service of the summons and complaint upon him".
In Rule 12(b) it is provided that "the following defenses may at the option of the pleader be made by motion: (1) lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter, (2) lack of jurisdiction over the person, (3) improper venue, (4) insufficiency of process, (5) insufficiency of service of process, (6) failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted." 12(b) further provides that "A motion making any of these defenses shall be made before pleading if a further pleading is permitted." Rule 12 *408 (g) provides: "A party who makes a motion under this rule may join with it the other motions herein provided for and then available to him. If a party makes a motion under this rule and does not include therein all defenses and objections then available to him which this rule permits to be raised by motion, he shall not thereafter make a motion based on any of the defenses or objections so omitted, except that prior to making any other motions under this rule he may make a motion in which are joined all the defenses numbered (1) to (5) in subdivision (b) of this rule which he cares to assert."
In Moore's Federal Practice the author states at page 661: "Thus defenses `(1) lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter, (2) lack of jurisdiction over the person, (3) improper venue, (4) insufficiency of process, (5) insufficiency of service of process' may be urged by one motion, but not by a series of motions, * * *"
The author further states at page 628: "He should, however, present the first five of the foregoing defenses [(1)-(5)] that he has in one motion. For example, he cannot move to dismiss the complaint because jurisdiction over his person has not been obtained and, losing on that motion, move to dismiss for improper venue. Such successive motions are precluded by subdivision (g)"
The Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation having failed for approximately five months to raise the question of venue and the plaintiff having had considerable expense in the taking of depositions, etc., requires us to hold that the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation lost the personal privilege of venue in the District in which it resides. This loss was caused by failure to assert it seasonably and by submission through conduct. I do not see how the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation will be inconvenienced by the trial of this case against it, as it will no doubt have to try the case in this Court against the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation of Pennsylvania, its wholly owned and controlled subsidiary. On the other hand, if this action is not tried here against both defendants, it probably means that it will have to be tried in another jurisdiction which would mean expense and inconvenience to the plaintiff as well as to the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation.
Let orders be prepared and submitted in accordance with the foregoing opinion.
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West Virginia Laws on Domestic Violence
By: Matthew Bonadio, J.D.
How to Get a Restraining Order in West Virginia
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What Is the Meaning of a No Contact Order in Virginia?
California Domestic Violence Laws: Misdemeanors and Felonies
About Spousal Abuse in California
West Virginia maintains two types of laws against domestic violence, and violations have criminal penalties.
Domestic violence protective orders move quickly to separate a victim of domestic violence from an alleged abuser. While protective orders are considered civil orders, violating a protective order carries criminal penalties.
Criminal laws also cover domestic assault and battery in West Virginia. These crimes fall under a special statute different from the general assault and battery laws.
The links in the References and Resources section provide more detailed information on the matters discussed in this article. While magistrates and their assistants and family law judges and their staff may not offer legal advice, they can also offer information on the process of applying for protective orders.
If you are a current victim of domestic violence, you should call 911.
Initial emergency protective orders are issued by county magistrates. The final orders are issued by family law judges.
A victim or witness can petition a magistrate to issue an emergency temporary order. The magistrate will review the petition. If the magistrate finds that domestic violence or an imminent threat of domestic violence exists, a temporary domestic violence protective order may be issued. The alleged assailant need not be present for a temporary order to be issued. The order may order the alleged assailant out of the house and establish support for the victim and any children of a marriage or relationship. The emergency order is good until the family court issues an order in the case.
A final hearing occurs in family court, usually within 30 days of the emergency order.
The defendant will be notified and may be present. The family court judge will decide if a final permanent domestic violence protection order will be issued. The order may include provisions for support, payment of rent and resolve other financial matters. The assailant will be ordered not to contact, threaten or harm the victim. If contact is necessary for any reason, the judge will outline how and where contact is permitted.
Read More: How to Get a Protective Order Removed
Violations of Protective Orders
Violations of protective orders may result in a contempt of court of court charge or a criminal charge. Contempt of court may result in a fine or cash bond to ensure no further violations.
Violation of a temporary or final protective order is also a crime. A conviction carries a penalty of up to one year in jail and/or a $2,000 fine. The defendant is entitled to a jury trial on the criminal charge.
Domestic Assault and Battery
Domestic assault and battery laws protect victims who have a variety of domestic relationships with their assailant. The victim may be a husband or wife, parent, guardian or domestic partner.
Domestic assault occurs when someone tries to attack or commit and act of violence and by doing so puts a person in fear of immediate harm. Throwing a knife at someone, but missing, would be an assault. Holding a knife and threatening to harm the victim may also be an assault.
Domestic battery means there has been actual physical contact between the victim and the attacker. A punch that hits the victim would be battery.
Penalties for Domestic Assault and Battery
In all cases below, a judge or magistrate may impose a fine or jail sentence or both.
A first conviction on domestic assault carries a sentence of up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $100.
For the first conviction of domestic battery, a person could face either up to a year in jail or a fine of up to $500.
People convicted of a second offense of domestic battery face a possible penalty of 60 days to one year in jail or a fine of not more than $1,000.
A second conviction on domestic assault carries a possible penalty of 30 days to six months in jail or a fine of up to $500.
A third offense of either domestic assault or domestic battery within 10 years of any of the previous convictions is a felony punishable by one to five years in prison or a fine of up to $2,500.
West Virginia Code: Domestic Violence-Criminal Acts
Domestic Violence Protective Orders
Matthew Bonadio worked at a daily newspaper for 12 years as a reporter and editor. He wrote a weekly award-winning column on state politics any other matters of extreme importance, including one column titled "Of Milkshakes and Burger Joint." Bonadio holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from the College of Wooster and a J.D. from the West Virginia University College of Law.
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Plate-spinning with passion and purpose
by Matthew A. Rarey
Santa Barbara’s Fr. John Love is pastor at St. Mark’s University Parish . . . .
Fr. John Love
Santa Barbara Chapter
Likening himself to a circus plate-spinner, Fr. John Love serves as pastor of St. Mark’s University Roman Catholic Church in Isla Vista, Calif. The parish is “essentially a Newman Center, but with the canonical status of a parish.” He’s also a chaplain for Legatus, the Order of Malta, and the Air National Guard. “My interest in helping military personnel to find God derives from my family’s military tradition,” says this son of an Army surgeon. Of his vocational plate-spinning act, he says, “Through the grace of God, a plate has yet to fall!”
Tell us about your call to the priesthood.
The faith was a vital part of my growing up, but my main conversion point occurred right out of college. I was working on a mayoral campaign in San Diego. One day in April 1985, I saw a young woman wearing a postulant’s habit pushing an old lady in a wheelchair outside the grocery store. I broke down and knew I needed to do something to help people find God amidst their suffering and questioning. I quit my job the next day and decided to give the seminary a try. I got accepted as a late applicant. Five years later I was ordained.
How did you become acquainted with Legatus?
Through Tim Busch. Tim’s been instrumental in founding our chapter as well as so many others in California. He’d purchased a hotel within my parish boundaries and converted it into a resort. About a year ago I heard that a Mass was going to be said there for a meeting of the Magis Institute. I called Tim and made sure he had everything he needed. We met soon after. About a month later he called and said he wanted me to be the chaplain of this new chapter. I said my plate was full. He said that was too bad because he’d already spoken with Archbishop Gómez and that my boss had already appointed me!
What impact has Legatus had in Santa Barbara?
It’s a little early to tell because we’re less than a year old. I can say that one fellow we invited to join was hesitant because his wife isn’t Catholic. He did, and now she’s starting to come around. So I see Legatus as a kind of evangelical tool that provides a wonderful outreach simply through Christian witness. Seeing business professionals living their faith can be very enticing for younger execs and others who might be struggling with their faith.
How would you like to see the chapter progress?
Santa Barbara’s nickname is “Home to the newlywed and nearly dead.” There are a lot of young people and a vast number of retirees. But it’s hard for younger people to stay and raise families because real estate prices are out of this world. So it’s going to be a challenge finding younger executives who qualify for Legatus, but we’re looking.
I enjoy going deep into the faith with Legates and having intellectual discussions. Our evenings together serve to strengthen my own faith.
You have a vocation, of course. Any avocations?
I’ve always enjoyed building things of lasting material value, especially through woodworking — and I’ve always enjoyed music. So I’ve combined these passions by building harpsichords. I’ve built three so far.
Do you have any advice for business leaders?
I tell my students to organize and execute their own projects and I’ll support them. In their freedom they might fail. But charting their own course — creating their own excellence — helps them to grow and flourish as human beings.
So don’t micromanage your subordinates. Give them the ability to excel — or fail — within the parameters of their responsibilities.
MATTHEW A. RAREY is Legatus magazine’s editorial assistant.
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Superman Logo
January 20, 2022 |Media Logos
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Superman is a character with superpowers. It was invented by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster and then sold to DC Comics. The actual moment of “birth” of Superman is considered in 1938 when he first appeared in Action Comics # 1.
Evolution of the Superman Logo
What is Superman?
This is a DC Comics character who is endowed with superpowers. He has amazing intelligence, keen hearing, excellent eyesight. He knows how to develop incredible speed, fly, and not need food, sleep, and oxygen. And his body has strength and invincibility.
As conceived by the authors, the superhero wears a red-blue-yellow suit, complemented by a cloak and a large breastplate in the form of a pentagonal shield with the letter “S.” This logo has become so common that it has been used in the media industry as a symbol for Superman. It was often redrawn, changing the colors and outlines of the elements.
Joe Shuster designed the debut version of the logo. Readers first saw it in the June 1938 edition of Action Comics # 1; however, it was not in the story itself, only on the cover. In appearance, the shield resembled a police badge.
The comic uses a triangular logo with the letter “S.” The inside of the shield was yellow. The frame and “S” were drawn in red, but sometimes, to save time, the colorist left the stroke around the triangle in yellow.
For several years, the emblem has not changed, except that the frame has become thicker, and the “S” has acquired a new shape.
In September 1940, the triangle-shaped sign returned briefly. The geometric shape is completely yellow, and the “S” is now large serifs. This version is specific to Superman # 6. In 1940, illustrator Hugh Joseph Ward proposed a logo with an orange letter and frame.
In Action Comics # 26, the pentagonal emblem was first introduced on the superhero costume.
In March 1940, a modified logo appeared: a black triangular shield with a red letter, an inner white outline, and an outer black outline. He was used in several Superman # 4 and was featured on the corner cover of Action Comics until 1946.
Superman # 9 used an inverted triangle symbol with cut edges. The red “S” had large serifs.
The yellow-orange version is back, but sans serif.
In Superman # 26, the emblem was a pentagonal shield with a rounded base. The letter and frame turned red again.
DC Comics decided to trademark the character’s logo. The artist Wayne Boring, who was working on the superhero, changed the thickness of the bezel and came up with the iconic “S” design.
New illustrator Curt Swan made the letter bigger and bolder.
The most recognizable Superman mark was the version with a black outline that surrounded the “S” and a red border. At first, this emblem was considered secondary, but it began to appear in comics a little later.
From 1986 to 1992 (from The Man of Steel # 1 to The Death of Superman), the John Byrne logo was used. The designer paid attention to the letter “S” by making the serif triangular.
In Superman’s new episodes (Vol. 2) # 123, the character’s superpowers were associated with electricity, so the “S” on the emblem looked like stylized lightning. There was a blue and white version at first, but after the division of the main character into two entities, a red and white version also appeared. The author of both versions is Ron Krentz.
In Superman (Vol. 2) # 175, the character returned to the classic look, and his sign became red and black.
The first four issues of Action Comics (Vol. 2) # 1 introduced a new logo. It resembled the 1977 version, but with different proportions and a revised palette.
From 2011 to the New 52 Era, a redesigned emblem with asymmetrical “S” without a bottom serif was used.
Font and Color of the Emblem
The Superman logo has been updated frequently – sometimes due to plot twists, sometimes due to artist change. But the concept remained the same as many years ago: a shield and the first letter of a superhero name.
The letter “S” does not match any of the existing fonts, as it was designed specifically for the superhero.
The classic logo palette includes red, black, and white. There were versions with different shades of red, and one version contained a blue shield.
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Fauci in the Hot Seat as Emails Reveal His Lies
Watch the latest video at foxnews.comSaint Anthony’s halo is tarnishing and hanging more crooked by the day. Dr. Anthony Fauci — whose medical expertise has been held as indisputable by mainstream media since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic — is now facing mounting scrutiny and critique as correspondence obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Buzzfeed reveals he’s lied both to the public and the U.S. Senate on a number of issues.
The emails were released to the public in the early-morning hours of June 2, 2021. All 3,234 pages of emails can be found on Document Cloud.1 News media pounced on the release, with each reporter offering their own spin on what the fallout of the emails might be.
In the video above,2 “The Next Revolution” host Steve Hilton details how Fauci and National Institute of Health director Dr. Francis Collins have both repeatedly lied about the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
‘Utter Fraudulence’
In a no-holds-barred monologue Wednesday, June 2, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson (above) called for a criminal investigation of Fauci in the aftermath of the release of thousands of emails, exchanged in the early days of the pandemic between Fauci and numerous individuals, including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and billionaire Bill Gates.
Carlson blasted Fauci for what he said was “utter fraudulence” that should put Fauci under criminal investigation. After previously hosting him on many Fox newscasts, including Carlson’s own, the emails show Fauci is “just another sleazy federal bureaucrat — deeply political and often dishonest,” Carlson said.
What’s worse, the emails implicate Fauci “in the very pandemic he’d been charged with fighting.” While Fauci has denied funding gain-of-function research, emails now reveal he did indeed support “the grotesque and dangerous experiments that appeared to have made COVID possible,” Carlson said, adding that the emails are so damning that “in retrospect it looks a lot like perjury.”
Sen. Rand Paul apparently agrees. In a recent Fox News interview (below), Paul said the released emails reveal a “disturbing picture” that “should preclude [Fauci] from the position that he’s in.”
Are Fauci’s days numbered? pic.twitter.com/bszGs7aRxL— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) June 3, 2021
Fauci Lied About Not Funding Gain-of-Function Research
Some of the emails show Fauci, early in 2020, was concerned that Americans might think the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China. Why would he be concerned about that? As noted by Carlson, this makes perfect sense if he knew he had funded the very research that now looked like the source of the pandemic.
January 31, 2020, Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in California, emailed Fauci stating that “The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered." He later wrote that he and his team "all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory." Interestingly, some six weeks later, Andersen published a paper in which he and his team insisted the virus could not have been created in a lab. I'll have more to say on this later, as the email cache also reveals Fauci had a hand in the creation of that paper. On a side note, four days after the release of the emails, Andersen deleted his entire Twitter account.3 The next day, Fauci sent an urgent email to Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, the principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), titled "IMPORTANT." "It is essential that we speak this AM," Fauci wrote. "Keep your cell phone on … Read this paper as well as the e-mail that I will forward to you now. You will have tasks today that must be done." Attached to the email was a file titled "Baric, Shi et al - Nature medicine - SARS Gain of function.pdf." This paper was written by Ralph Baric, Ph.D., a virologist in the U.S., and Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the WIV who specializes in bat coronaviruses. May 11, 2021, Fauci testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.4 During an exchange with Sen. Rand Paul, Fauci insisted that "the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology." He also insisted that Baric does not engage in gain-of-function research. This is the same Baric whose paper Fauci sent to Auchincloss, clearly marked as "SARS gain-of-function." As reviewed in "The Biggest Flip-Flop Ever — Who's Going to Jail?" the kind of research Fauci funded has long been referred to as gain-of-function, yet now he's trying to redefine what's covered by that term. As noted by Carlson in his June 2, 2021, report, social media platforms aggressively censored and deplatformed people for the "crime" of talking about the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 being a lab creation that got loose, and they did so largely based on the word of Fauci himself. Fauci said it wasn't so, and that became the gospel repeated by fact checkers everywhere. Now all of a sudden, there appears to have been a coordinated U-turn. The question is, why did they lie to us for so long? In the video report above, Carlson reveals part of the answer: Scientists were afraid to lose their funding, funding which, by the way, comes from the American taxpayers. Fauci Lied About the Origin of the Virus In an April 17, 2020, White House press briefing, Fauci lied again, when he said the science was "totally consistent with a jump from an animal to a human." Yet "what he asserted as conclusively known could not have been known," Carlson points out. Two days after this press briefing, EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak, Ph.D., wrote to Fauci thanking him for his help in deflecting the lab origin theory. The email reads: "As the PI of the R01 grant publicly targeted by Fox News reporters at the Presidential press briefing last night, I just wanted to say a personal thankyou on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology." Who is Daszak? He's none other than the middle-man between Fauci's NIAID/NIH and the WIV. EcoHealth Alliance received several NIH grants for millions of dollars involving gain-of-function research on coronaviruses, which were then farmed out to Zhengli and others at the WIV. So, Daszak certainly had cause to want to deflect attention from the lab leak theory. He was also well aware of how risky this research was. In 2015, he spoke at a National Academies of Science seminar on reducing risk from emerging infectious diseases, warning of the danger of experimenting on "humanized mice,"5 meaning lab mice that have been genetically altered to carry human genes, cells or tissues. That same year, Daszak also published a paper in which he warned a global pandemic might occur from a laboratory incident and that "the risks were greater with the sort of virus manipulation research being carried out in Wuhan."6 January 2, 2020, he sent out a tweet announcing he'd successfully isolated SARS coronaviruses "that bind to human cells in the lab," and that the work of other scientists show some of these viruses have pandemic potential as they can infect humanized mice.7 Yet, from the get-go, Daszak did everything he could to dispel discussion about SARS-CoV-2 being anything but all-natural. He went on record dismissing the lab-origin theory as "pure baloney."8,9 He was also the mastermind behind the publication of a scientific statement published in The Lancet10 condemning such inquiries as "conspiracy theory,"11,12 which was then relied on by the media to "debunk" theories and evidence showing the pandemic virus most likely originated from a laboratory. To further ensure the lab-leak theory would die out, Daszak was chosen to be on two separate commissions charged with investigating the origin of SARS-CoV-2, one by the World Health Organization13 — which, of course, dismissed the lab theory out of hand — and one by The Lancet.14 'Hidden Hand' Behind Natural Origin Theory Revealed Now, finally, all these efforts to obfuscate the truth are falling apart. Fauci's role in the obfuscation is also becoming much clearer. In the documentary "Plandemic — Indoctornation," Dr. Meryl Nass stated there had to have been "a hidden hand behind the Nature Medicine paper"15 that became the basis for the natural, zoonotic origin theory. This paper is not to be confused with the other Nature Medicine paper cited earlier, published by Baric and Shi. The paper Nass is referring to was created by Scripps researcher Kristian Andersen who, in January 2020, told Fauci that some of the features of the genomic sequence "(potentially) look engineered." Andersen's paper "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2"16 — published March 17, 2020, and co-written by Andrew Rambaut, Ian Lipkin, Edward Holmes and Robert Garry — became the preeminent "proof" that SARS-CoV-2 had a natural origin and couldn't possibly come from a lab. "Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," the paper states.17 The email cache now identifies who comprised the "hidden hand" behind this paper. They were none other than Fauci himself, NIH director Collins and Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust. In the email on page 2,401, dated March 6, 2020, Andersen thanks Fauci, Collins and Farrar for their "advice and leadership" on the paper. His four co-authors are cc'd, along with the Salk Institute's communications director, Chris Emery. Fauci, Collins and Farrar — A Tag-Team of Coverup Artists This is huge. "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2"18 was the scientific underpinning of the natural origin claim, and now we find out Fauci himself was involved in its creation. Farrar and Collins are also neck-deep in this cover-up. Farrar cosigned the scientific statement in The Lancet,19 which turned out to have been orchestrated by Daszak, as mentioned earlier. Farrar was also involved in the WHO Solidarity Trial,20 which poisoned patients with toxic doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). In this trial, which was clearly designed to prove HCQ was "dangerous," they used a cumulative dose of 8,800 mg over 10 days. Meanwhile, doctors across the world who reported success with the drug were using standard doses around 200 mg per day for just a few days. Farrar, having spent 18 years leading a clinical research unit in Vietnam,21 would have (or should have) been aware that such high doses of HCQ — a widely used anti-malaria medication — would be toxic. As for Collins, he promoted the cover-up by publishing a March 26, 2020, blog post22 in which he said Andersen's Nature Medicine paper proved a natural origin, and to ignore rumors to the contrary. What's more, after Fauci unconvincingly tried to claim that the NIAID/NIH has never funded any gain-of-function research, Collins came to his rescue with a public NIH statement23 in which he backed Fauci's claim. Bombshell Emails on What Fauci Knew In a June 3, 2021, report, Carlson reviewed Fauci's "surreal" media appearances following the release of the emails. As just one example, he simply laughed off the question of why so much of a particular email between him and Collins was redacted. In the unredacted part, Collins warns Fauci that a "conspiracy theory" about the virus' origin is gaining speed. Why, exactly, was this email redacted? What did the remainder of the email say? Fauci claims ignorance on the matter, and the mainstream media are letting him off the hook. Now, when a document is redacted, a classification is assigned, explaining why parts must remain secret, and in this case, those classifications are interesting indeed. Redacted emails between Fauci and nongovernment individuals such as Zuckerberg and Daszak bear codes such as:24,25 (b)(4), which refers to information that would impair the application of state-of-the-art technology within a U.S. weapon system (b)(6), which refers to information, including foreign government information, that would cause serious harm to relations between the U.S. and a foreign government, or to ongoing diplomatic activities of the U.S. (b)(7), which refers to information that would impair the current ability of U.S. government officials to protect the president, vice president and other protectees for whom protection services, in the interest of national security, are authorized Fauci Lied About Masks The email cache also shows Fauci lied about other things, including masks and vaccines. In one email, Fauci explained that surgical masks don't work against viruses because the viruses slip right through the material, which is the truth. But when it comes to his public statements about masks, Fauci has been a serial liar. He started off saying Americans shouldn't wear them because they offer little to no protection — which is true — and the benefits are mostly psychological, as it might make you feel safer. Then he changed his mind, urging everyone to wear a mask all the time. When confronted about this U-turn, he said he lied about masks not being effective because he wanted to make sure there would be enough for frontline workers. Well, in reality, he lied about lying, because he told the truth that first time. Everything since then, however, has been one fib after another. One mask wasn't even sufficient. Fauci started recommending two. Then he insisted people had to keep wearing them even after they get vaccinated. There's no scientific rationale for this at all, and Fauci knows it. Fauci Still Has Not Told the Truth About Natural Immunity Fauci has also been dishonest about the need for COVID-19 vaccination. In early March 2020, a former Obama official emailed Fauci asking if people who recover from COVID-19 can expect to be immune thereafter. Fauci replied, "No evidence in this regard, but you would assume that their [sic] would be substantial immunity post infection." Here, it's fairly safe to make assumptions because it's a well-established medical fact that when you recover from a viral infection, you are immune, and that immunity can be lifelong in many cases. It would be quite unusual if immunity were not incurred after recovering from a viral infection. As noted by Carlson, that robust immunity occurs post-COVID-19 has also been confirmed in studies over the past year. Now, if you have natural immunity against an illness, you do not need to be vaccinated. Period. Yet to this day, Fauci has never admitted this publicly, and he has not publicly opposed recommendations to vaccinate those who have recovered from COVID-19, even though there's evidence to suggest such individuals are at higher risk of vaccine injury. Not even those who can prove they have antibodies are excluded from the vaccine push. Fauci Tried to Derail Florida Other emails from March 2020, discussed in The Beltway Report,26 show Fauci also promised to put pressure on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to close down gyms, bars and beaches. The recipient of this email exchange was a Florida HIV specialist named Doug Brust, who wrote, "I'm the HIV doc here. I'm it … I am putting my life on the line so folks can go pump iron, drink beer, have a burger, and get a tan." In response, Fauci wrote, in part:27 "Regarding the bars and beaches, I have been screaming on TV 2 to 5 times per night to tell the younger generation to start taking this seriously … I am very surprised that Gov. DeSantis has not completely closed the bars, even if they serve food. Take out only. I will bring this up at the Task Force meeting tomorrow." Fauci's Book Release Scrubbed Amid Backlash In light of Fauci's rapidly waning star power, his book, "Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward," slated for release in November 2021, has now been scrubbed from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. We found an archived copy of the original Amazon listing, but even the cached version disappeared within a week. If you search for the book on either of these book vendors now, you won't find it. As reported by Just the News June 2, 2021:28 "The scrubbing of the book comes after backlash from critics who accused Fauci of profiting off of the deadly pandemic the U.S. response to which he has overseen. Among those criticizing Fauci is Fox News Channel contributor Joe Concha, who compared him to New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signing a seven-figure book deal about his efforts during the pandemic, which resulted in a high number of death among assisted-living residents. 'If you look at the numbers again, you had Cuomo profiting off a pandemic, a government official,' said Concha, also a media reporter for The Hill newspaper. 'Now we have Fauci doing it as well. I think this is appalling.' Daily Caller writer Greg Price slammed Fauci for 'publishing a book and [becoming] the highest paid federal government employee while you lost your business and had your kids out of school for a year.'" Truth may be slow to surface, but eventually, the truth usually breaks through. And that certainly appears to be the case here. The truth about the lab leak theory — that it's actually the most plausible and not a wild goose-chase — is now emerging just about everywhere. I'm sure many of you remember we have been exposing this information since early last year. Even Vanity Fair29 has an in-depth article detailing the drama. The theory that mere weeks ago was derided as debunked hogwash conspiracy theory, if acknowledged at all, is now suddenly getting the level-headed attention it should have, and probably would have, received all along, had it not been for Fauci and his co-conspirators. This case ought to establish one thing, and that is that "conspiracy theories" are not automatically untrue.
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By Juan Pablo Ruiz and Felipe Estefan
It was four o'clock in the afternoon when Dilan Cruz, a young man who was exercising his right to peaceful protest in Bogotá, was shot by an agent of ESMAD, Colombia’s Anti-Riot Mobile Squad. On November 25, 2019, after two days in intensive care, Dilan died.
In Argentina, the murder of Chiara Páez at the hand of her boyfriend during an argument about whether to have the child they were expecting, triggered the Ni Una Menos movement in support of the legalization of abortion. In December of 2020, the country legalized abortion, after more than 30 years of rallies calling for the right to choose.
Meanwhile in Mexico, practicing journalism is becoming increasingly risky. In the second year of President Lopez Obrador's administration, there were 692 attacks on journalists, 13% higher than the previous year, and half of these were executed by State agents. The issue has become more worrisome in the last two years with 17 journalists murdered in Mexico for doing their jobs.
Civic space across Latin America is being threatened viciously. Increasingly, citizens are unable to participate in the decisions that impact their lives – this is particularly true for women and minorities, who have been historically and systematically excluded from decision-making processes.
Civic empowerment of all citizens is an essential part of democracy, which is why Luminate, in collaboration with Avina and Open Society Foundations, created Pulsante last fall.
Pulsante is a regional fund that provides funding and support to organizations focused on amplifying historically underrepresented voices in democratic and electoral processes, promoting citizen participation and collective action, and protecting freedom of expression.
Pulsante is launching a Call for Applications for Civic Empowerment Organizations that will award $80,000 - $120,000 and strategic support for 18 months to selected organizations. These resources are intended for organizations that aim to expand civic space, empower an active citizenry, including traditionally excluded voices, and consequently, improve the quality of democracy in Latin America. The call for applications will be open until April 30, 2021.
In its previous iterations, the fund has supported over 45 civic engagement projects throughout Latin America. In Brazil, projects such as Liane and #MeRepresenta were key to increasing the political participation and representation of historically marginalized communities. In Argentina, Democracy OS has ensured that citizens have a voice, from participatory budgeting assemblies to elections. In Uruguay, Rio Abierto engaged citizens as part of legislative reforms.
At a time in which civic space is being threatened in Latin America, we hope that Pulsante will support the champions of democracy in the region.
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2019 Katari Project: Personal Stories Inspire Personal Connections
In the fifth installment of reflection pieces written by the students who participated in our project, Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive, November 2-3, 2019, at the Manzanar National Historic Site, one of our students shared her thoughts on how her perspective about her community’s history has changed and about the impact that the first-hand stories she heard during that weekend had on her.
by Juliana Tom
For most people, when they hear, Manzanar, if they even know what Manzanar is, they might think of a white, pointy, stone pillar with some kanji (Japanese characters) written on it, located in the middle of nowhere. People with a slightly deeper understanding, or simply know textbook information, know that it was an incarceration camp for many Japanese Americans during World War II. But this is surface level knowledge.
Someone who might know a little more about Manzanar could tell you that it is the location of one of the ten camps where more than 120,000 Japanese/Japanese Americans were unjustly incarcerated in 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Some additional facts may include the following: on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066; there was a total of 11,070 individuals who were incarcerated at Manzanar, and on November 21, 1945, the last incarcerees left the camp. But what most people might not know is that the Owens Valley Paiute and Shoshone, the indigenous people of the area, inhabited Manzanar for more than 10,000 years, or that a major reason that Manzanar was chosen as a location for one of the incarceration camps was because it was close to a source of fresh water (the Los Angeles Department of Power and Water owned the land and water rights).
People may also be unaware that some of the incarcerees built gardens, or that there was an on-site orphanage with a total of 101 children, or that the incarcerees were only given $25.00 and one-way bus fare when they left, or that the kanji on the front of the cemetery monument translates to, soul consoling tower. Just to throw in a few more facts, 150 individuals died at Manzanar and 15 were buried there, although only six remain, and the location of the monument is also the location of the cemetery.
It is easy to get lost in all the numbers. Personally, I do not care for history classes too much. It is difficult for me to remember all the dates, names, and places, so when one of the rangers started off the weekend saying, “History is about real people,” tears welled up in my eyes and I suddenly wanted to cry.
It sounds so simple and so obvious, but it is so easy to forget. She told us how she used to think of history in black and white, like these people existed as they appeared in photos, and I understood exactly what she meant. It is hard to relate to something that has no personal connection to something in your own life. When we read about historic places and figures in textbooks, especially during a class at school that we only took to fulfill some sort of degree requirement, it is easy to ignore the fact that those people and places existed in our reality.
That ranger’s words put me in the shoes of the incarcerees. I remembered that these individuals would have been me and my family, had we lived in that time. In fact, my grandfather was an incarceree, though not at Manzanar. However, I was left with another gap in my personal history because I never met him. He passed away before I was born. I will never be able to fully understand what it was like to live in those conditions, but the Katari trip put me in the head space to try and understand.
Manzanar is so much more than just a stone pillar in a valley surrounded by mountains. Manzanar is a national historic site that holds so many stories and memories for so many different people. In fact. one phrase that really stuck with me from the weekend was a slogan from the National Park Service: Manzanar: One Camp, Ten Thousand lives. One Camp, Ten Thousand Stories.
Throughout the weekend, we heard so many different stories at each building, each barrack, each garden, each space. We also heard stories from three individuals who were children in the camps, Yoshie Okimoto Hayashi, Pat Sakamoto, and Minoru Tonai. It was a lot to take in all at one time, but that was the point. It really emphasized the fact that each person incarcerated has their own story about their own experiences.
Just as no two people are the same, none of the stories that we heard were the same. Even twins, although genetically the same, grow up as separate individuals who have separate stories to tell. Again, in textbooks, there are a lot of dates and names to get caught up in, so the lives and emotions of the individual can get lost in all the facts. When the stories become specific to an individual, that is when a connection can be made, so I hope that other visitors to Manzanar are able to find a story that they can connect to. Having the opportunity to make these sorts of connections was truly an honor, and I could not be more appreciative of the rangers who guided us throughout the weekend.
A 20-year-old native of South Pasadena, California, Juliana Tom is in her third year at the University of California, Riverside, where she is studying Biology. She was involved in various youth programs at the Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple in Los Angles’ Little Tokyo and she participated in Kizuna’s leadership program. She currently serves as President of the Nikkei Student Union at UCR, and on the 2020 Manzanar At Dusk organizing committee.
LEAD PHOTO: Juliana Tom (center) is shown here with fellow students listening to a presentation at the Manzanar Reservoir, November 3, 2019, on Bureau of Land Management land, just to the northwest of the Manzanar National Historic Site. Photo: Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee.
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2-Dose Vaccines Do Not Provide Enough Neutralizing Antibodies Against Omicron: Study
Researchers found that the two-dose vaccines from Pfizer and AstraZeneca are not that effective in providing protection against the omicron variant.
An Alarming Discovery
In a University of Oxford study shared on the preprint server medRxiv, a team of scientists revealed a striking discovery after examining how the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines fared against the newest variant of concern. They found that the neutralizing antibodies produced by the two-dose vaccines were not enough to counter omicron.
To test the vaccines’ efficiency against the new strain, they introduced omicron to blood samples taken 28 days after participants had their second shot of either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccine. While examining the samples, they noticed a “substantial fall” in the neutralizing antibodies present.
They also shared an even more alarming finding: some samples failed to neutralize the coronavirus at all. “This will likely lead to increased breakthrough infections in previously infected or double vaccinated individuals, which could drive a further wave of infection, although there is currently no evidence of increased potential to cause severe disease, hospitalization or death,” they noted in their study.
A Similar Finding
This would be the second time that Pfizer’s vaccine caught the attention of the medical community for its lapses in the face of the omicron variant. Researchers from South Africa, where the variant was first identified, reported last week that the antibodies produced by the vaccine were less successful in preventing omicron from infecting cells compared to other strains.
The team, which was led by Alex Sigal of the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, indicated in their study that the new variant of concern appears to dull the protection provided by the Pfizer vaccine based on the experiments they conducted.
Implications Of The Studies
Although both studies on the two-dose vaccines seemingly suggest that they would not be enough to fight off omicron, scientists claim there is nothing to worry about. The studies only focused on neutralizing antibodies; the vaccines provide wide-ranging immune responses that involve more than antibodies.
“These data are important but are only one part of the picture. They only look at neutralizing antibodies after the second dose, but do not tell us about cellular immunity, and this will also be tested,” Oxford Professor Matthew Snape, co-author of the medRxiv-shared study, was quoted as saying by New York Post.
On the other hand, Sigal said that people previously infected with COVID-19 and then vaccinated against the novel coronavirus are well protected against the new variant. The South Africa-based virologist also noted that booster shots are likely to increase the neutralization level and the protection provided by the vaccines from omicron.
This article was originally published by Medicaldaily.com. Read the original article here.
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Single low-magnitude electric pulse successfully fights inflammation
by North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, the research arm of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, and SetPoint Medical Inc., a biomedical technology company, today released the results of research on the therapeutic potential of vagus nerve stimulation. In a paper published by Bioelectronic Medicine, Kevin J. Tracey, MD, and his colleagues at the Feinstein Institute, explore how low-level electrical stimulation interacts with the body's nerves to reduce inflammation, a fundamental goal of bioelectronic medicine.
Prior to this study, it was not understood which vagus nerve fiber types were responsible for reducing the body's inflammatory activity. The paper's findings indicate that activation of either motor or sensory vagus nerve bundles can diminish inflammation.
"Identifying the exact role of the different nerve bundles in the inflammatory reflex bolsters our understanding of the relationship between the central nervous system and the vagus nerve," said Dr. Kevin J. Tracey, president and CEO of the Feinstein Institute. "Furthermore, we now know that stimulating the vagus nerve for as little as half a millisecond is enough to inhibit tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production."
After establishing the neural bundles activated in vagus nerve stimulation, the researchers found that only low-intensity, short-duration, electric pulses were needed to reduce the production of inflammation-inducing cytokines. Repetition of the pulses did not increase the success of the treatment in this experiment indicating that a single stimulating pulse is potentially sufficient.
"Seeing successful results with low-level electrical current is a significant finding," said Yaakov Levine, PhD, senior research scientist, SetPoint Medical. "This indicates the potential for limited side effects, as well as promise for device miniaturization, both of which will be important to bringing vagus nerve stimulation into the mainstream."
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1 in 3 Older Thyroid Patients Takes a Med That Can Interfere With Tests
Nearly one-third of seniors who take thyroid hormone also take drugs known to interfere with tests of thyroid function, a new study finds.
It's common for older adults to take a thyroid hormone (levothyroxine) to treat low levels of natural thyroid hormone. But tests used to determine the dose and effectiveness of treatment can be affected by other medications, including prednisone, prednisolone, carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital, amiodarone, lithium, interferon-alpha and tamoxifen.
"Our study highlights the complexity and challenges of managing thyroid hormone replacement in older patients, many of whom are at risk for adverse effects in the context of having multiple chronic conditions and being on multiple other medications," said senior researcher Dr. Maria Papaleontiou, an assistant professor at the Institute of Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan.
For the study, the researchers collected data on more than 538,000 patients age 65 and older who used thyroid hormone and were listed in a U.S. Veterans Health Administration database from 2004 to 2017.
About 32% were taking medications known to interfere with thyroid function tests. Non-white patients, Hispanics, women and those with other medical conditions were most likely to be doing so.
Researchers also found that people 85 and older were less likely to be taking thyroid hormone and interfering medications.
"Thyroid hormone use is common in older adults, and its management is complicated by the fact that many older patients often also use multiple medicines for numerous chronic conditions," Papaleontiou said. "This may increase the risk of drug interactions and the potential for side effects. It is important to be vigilant to ensure safe medication use in our older patients."
One expert not part of the study said doctors often overlook the possibility of drugs interacting with thyroid hormone, which can result in either giving too much of the hormone or too little.
"The fact that certain medications can interfere with the thyroid hormone tests is a very important point to highlight and is often overlooked," said Dr. Minisha Sood, an endocrinologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
Too little thyroid hormone can weaken or slow the heart, causing fatigue. It can also cause obesity, joint pain, high blood pressure, swelling in the ankles and high cholesterol. Too much thyroid hormone can cause an irregular heartbeat.
It's important for patients to ask whether certain supplements or medications should be adjusted before they have blood tests to check their thyroid hormone levels, Sood said. Health care providers can use this information to guide patients' medication use.
"For example, in a patient who has stable thyroid levels for years but then develops low thyroid hormone levels without symptoms of being overmedicated, one might rule out concurrent medications, such as prednisone, as the causative factor," Sood said.
The study findings were scheduled to be presented Thursday at an online meeting of the Endocrine Society. Research presented at meetings is typically considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
There's more about the thyroid hormone levothyroxine at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
SOURCES: Maria Papaleontiou, MD, assistant professor, Institute of Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Minisha Sood, MD, endocrinologist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Endocrine Society, online meeting presentation, March 18, 2021
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15 MW Grid-Connected Solar Project Commissioned for Kolkata International Airport
Saumy Prateek
Solar, Utility Scale
A 15 MW grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) project was inaugurated on December 5, 2017, by Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju at the premises of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport in Kolkata, West Bengal under the Airports Authority of India (AAI) initiative.
Per Mercom research, the 15 MW grid-connected solar project was tendered in 2015. Sterling & Wilson was the engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, and Waaree Energies 330 Watt solar modules were utilized in project development.
While inaugurating the solar project Raju said, “With the commissioning of 15 MW power generation here, total generating capacity from this clean energy route has gone up to 90 MW at the AAI-operated airports.” According to Raju, total solar power generation in private airports currently stands at 45 MW.
According to a Press Trust of India (PTI) report, AAI has entered into an agreement with private power utility CESC (DISCOM) for supplying excess power generated from this project to the grid. The AAI has obtained permission from the West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission for it.
Kolkata airport director Atul Dikshit said the gestation period of the project, built at ₹900 million (~$13.9 million), was six years after which revenue would accrue to the AAI. The PTI also reported, S Raheja, Member (Planning) AAI, said, “Once the solar plant becomes operational, we will be able to cut down on carbon emission and at the same time do some cost-cutting. The solar power project will be able to meet the power requirement of the terminal building at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here, which is around 10-11 MW a day.”
This is not the first solar installation at the NSCBI Airport. Prior to installation of this 15 MW ground-mounted project, Vikram Solar had commissioned a 2 MW rooftop solar project.
At the inauguration Raju also said, “The target is to achieve 200 MW of solar capacity in five to six years across AAI-owned airports in India.”
Mercom previously reported, CIAL Infrastructures Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cochin International Airport Ltd., has issued tenders to develop a total of 9.9 MW of grid-connected rooftop solar PV projects.
Image credit: Vikram Solar
Saumy is a senior staff reporter with MercomIndia.com covering business and energy news since 2016. Prior to Mercom, Saumy was a copy editor at Thomson Reuters. Saumy earned his Bachelors Degree in Journalism & Mass Communication from the Manipal Institute of Communication at Manipal University. More articles from Saumy Prateek.
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How Kelp Could Power the World's Transportation Networks
Published Apr 4, 2021 1:23 PM by Diane Kim, Ignacio Navarrete and Jessica Dutton
Giant kelp, the world’s largest species of marine algae, is an attractive source for making biofuels. In a recent study, we tested a novel strategy for growing kelp that could make it possible to produce it continuously on a large scale. The key idea is moving kelp stocks daily up to near-surface waters for sunlight and down to darker waters for nutrients.
Unlike today’s energy crops, such as corn and soybeans, growing kelp doesn’t require land, fresh water or fertilizer. And giant kelp can grow over a foot per day under ideal conditions.
Kelp typically grows in shallow zones near the coast, and thrives only where sunlight and nutrients are both plentiful. There’s the challenge: The ocean’s sunlit layer extends down about 665 feet (200 meters) or less below the surface, but this zone often doesn’t contain enough nutrients to support kelp growth.
Much of the open ocean surface is nutrient-poor year-round. In coastal areas, upwelling – deep water rising to the surface, bringing nutrients – is seasonal. Deeper waters, on the other hand, are rich in nutrients but lack sunlight.
Our study demonstrated that kelp withstood daily changes in water pressure as we cycled it between depths of 30 feet (9 meters) and 262 feet (80 meters). Our cultivated kelp acquired enough nutrients from the deeper, dark environment to generate four times more growth than kelp that we transplanted to a native coastal kelp habitat.
“Farming” kelp in the ocean could produce abundant material for making sustainable biofuel.
Making biofuels from terrestrial crops such as corn and soybeans competes with other uses for farmland and fresh water. Using plants from the ocean can be more sustainable, efficient and scalable.
Marine biomass can be converted into different forms of energy, including ethanol, to replace the corn-derived additive that currently is blended into gasoline in the U.S. Perhaps the most appealing end-product is bio-crude – oil derived from organic materials. Bio-crude is produced through a process called hydrothermal liquefaction, which uses temperature and pressure to convert materials like algae into oils.
These oils can be processed in existing refineries into bio-based fuels for trucks and planes. It’s not practical yet to run these long-distance transportation modes on electricity because they would require enormous batteries.
By our calculations, producing enough kelp to power the entire U.S. transportation sector would require using just a small fraction of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone – the ocean area out to 200 nautical miles from the coastline.
How we do our work
Our work is a collaboration between the USC Wrigley Institute and Marine BioEnergy Inc., funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E MARINER (Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources) program. The research team includes biologists, oceanographers and engineers, working with scuba divers, vessel operators, research technicians and students.
We tested kelp’s biological response to depth cycling by attaching it to an open ocean structure we call the “kelp elevator,” designed by the team’s engineers. The elevator is anchored near the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on California’s Catalina Island. A solar-powered winch raises and lowers it daily to cycle the kelp between deep and shallow water.
We depth-cycled 35 juvenile kelp plants for three months and planted a second set at a nearby healthy kelp bed for comparison. To our knowledge, this was the first attempt to study the biological effects of physical depth cycling on kelp. Prior studies focused on artificially pumping deep nutrient-rich water to the surface.
A diver at the ‘kelp elevator.’ Maurice Roper, CC BY-ND
Our results suggest that depth cycling is a biologically viable cultivation strategy. Now we want to analyze factors that can increase yields, including timing, water depth and kelp genetics.
Many unknowns need further study, including processes for permitting and regulating kelp farms, and the possibility that raising kelp on a large scale could have unintended ecological consequences. But we believe marine biomass energy has great potential to help meet 21st-century sustainability challenges.
Diane Kim is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Senior Scientist, USC Wrigley Institute, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Ignacio Navarrete is a Postdoctoral Scholar and Research Associate, USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Jessica Dutton is Associate Director for Research, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies / Adjunct Assistant Professor (Research), Environmental Studies Program, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
This article appears courtesy of The Conversation and may be found in its original form here.
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Paul Brandus: Twenty years after 9/11, our biggest threat comes from within
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Twenty years ago, on Sept. 11, from my 36th floor office in a Manhattan skyscraper, I gasped in disbelief at the smoking black hole in the north tower of the World Trade Center.
Suddenly the other tower, the south tower, exploded in a horrifying fireball. I was too far away to hear it. But the imagery of that terrifying moment remains, to this day, razor sharp.
But while I think about that day often, I don’t worry about it. The security gaps that resulted in Islamic terrorists coming into this country, living openly, taking flight lessons and hijacking commercial airliners have long since been plugged (I think).
Meanwhile, new threats to national security have emerged, and they didn’t sneak into this country. They were born and raised right here, and live among us. I’m talking about fellow Americans whom the U.S. government considers a menace: heavily armed white supremacist and anti-government militia groups. They are the enemy within.
‘Most persistent threat’
Don’t take my word for it. Last fall, before the election and before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, here’s what then-President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security said:
“Ideologically motivated lone offenders and small groups pose the most likely terrorist threat to the Homeland, with Domestic Violent Extremists presenting the most persistent and lethal threat.”
Who are these “Domestic Violent Extremists”? The report goes deeper: “Racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists — specifically white supremacist extremists (WSEs) — will remain the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland.”
Again, this was a Trump administration report issued before the election and before the deadly attack on the Capitol.
FBI Director Christopher Wray — hand-picked for the job by Trump and kept on by President Biden — had this to say in Congressional testimony earlier this year, after Jan. 6:
“The problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now and it’s not going away anytime soon,” he said.
Jan. 6 insurrection
The Jan. 6 attack was the worst assault on Washington since British troops torched the Capitol and White House in 1814. It is thugs like the ones from that day, who built a noose and scaffolding, stormed the building with plastic restraints and battered police officers, that keep security officials up at night. It is their brethren, like the goons who plotted to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last year and the swastika-waving neo-Nazis who terrorized Thomas Jefferson’s Charlottesville in 2017 that are today a major threat to our national security.
In fairness, violence by left-wing extremists can hardly be discounted. It includes everything from attempts to derail trains to stop the construction of oil pipelines, to attacks on police officers or their facilities. Several such incidents occurred in the aftermath of last year’s murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Yet, data compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) shows three times as many incidents perpetrated last year by right-wing elements. An analysis of that data by the Washington Post shows a clear, present and accelerating danger.
“The surge reflects a growing threat from homegrown terrorism not seen in a quarter-century,” the analysis shows, “with right-wing extremist attacks and plots greatly eclipsing those from the far left and causing more deaths.”
CSIS’s database shows 73 far-right “incidents” in 2020, alone — or 1.4 per week –the highest since it began collecting data in 1994. Left-wing attacks, meanwhile, numbered a third as many: 25.
Right-wing extremism
A broader data sample shows that this is no fluke. Since 2015, “right-wing extremists have been involved in 267 plots or attacks and 91 fatalities,” while “attacks and plots ascribed to far-left views accounted for 66 incidents leading to 19 deaths.”
One thing behind all this is the disturbing rise in disinformation, which is easy to generate, easy to spread and all but impossible to thwart. Yet another report, this one by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) — which oversees the vast 17-agency U.S. intelligence community — cites “narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol [and] conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Ominously, it adds that “conspiracy theories promoting violence will almost certainly spur some [domestic violent extremists] to try to engage in violence this year.”
Here’s a blunter, less diplomatic way of summarizing the ODNI’s report: Right-wingers continue to spread “the big lie” about the election, and still think, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Donald Trump won.
Such “stop the steal” lies were clearly behind the attack. And somehow the pandemic — which at last count has killed 232 times more people than were killed on Sept. 11 — is, to many, a hoax. Even the former president himself, who got Covid and urges Americans to get vaccinated — “it is a safe vaccine and it is something that works,” he has said — is being drowned out by a continuous tidal wave of disinformation about this.
It’s hardly coincidental that the delta variant, case loads, hospitalizations and deaths are far worse today in red states with lower vaccination rates.
Lies and disinformation, it can be argued, are far more lethal than what happened on this day in 2001. And while we mourn those lost on that Sept. 11 — we’ve pledged to “never forget” — we must also never forget who and what threatens us on this one.
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KERING is distributing 70 percent of its stake in Puma to shareholders in order to focus on its luxury portfolio of brands.
Kering’s ambition is to continue to grow and develop its powerful ensemble of houses in couture, leather goods, jewellery and watches, leveraging on its high cash-flow generation and strong financial position, the French luxury goods group, which has Gucci, Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Christopher Kane and Stella McCartney in its stable, told WWD.
The shift will see Kering reduce its stake to 16 percent from 86 percent, with Kering shareholder Artemis winding up with a 29 percent stake in the sports brand, and about 55 percent of Puma’s stock free-floating on the stock market.
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In 1991, McHenry was the fastest growing county in Illinois. At the time a record 183,241 people called his place home – up 24 percent from a decade earlier.
But since those development-driven days of soaring land prices, easy financing and burgeoning employment opportunities, the pace has slowed. In July 2004 McHenry County was the 75th fastest-growing county in the nation; by 2006 it had fallen to 86th. Today we are a statistical blip in a destination landscape dominated by the Sunbelt, as well as by states such as Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Colorado.
As early as spring 1999, county officials were predicting a pause in what had been meteoric population growth. New construction slowed. Municipalities, which had jockeyed to annex key parcels their neighbors coveted, began to reach their limits – geographically and financially. And, of course, rising property taxes and state budgetary woes have done nothing to mitigate that trend.
The recently released 2018 McHenry County Office of Assessments report shows residential properties bear 82.6 percent of the property tax burden here. That compares to 81.6 percent in 2012.
The report shows a 10-percent drop in the value of new construction across the county last year. While it signals an improvement compared to the 16-percent drop in 2017, it is part of a nationwide trend. The Associated Press recently reported U.S. home prices rose at their slowest pace in more than six years in January. “Home prices are now rising at roughly the same pace as incomes, a remarkable shift after six years of increases that far outpaced wages,” the story stated.
McHenry County Assessor Robert Ross points in the annual report that the median sale price for existing single-family residences in the county rose 6.6 percent last year to $221,200. However, the number of homes sold has remained relatively static. The county Department of Planning and Development’s annual report indicates there were 1,123 building permits issued in 2018; part of a five-year average of 1,073 permits. This compares to the more than 3,000 building permits issued annually in the early ’90s.
Also interesting is the number of annexations are half what they were in 2015, but more property is changing hands … with a caveat. Larger, more expensive homes are not moving while entry level homes are flying off the shelves.
“There are so many homes, that had dropped drastically [in value], back to where they were three years ago,” said Carol Saunders, McHenry County chief deputy assessor. “People are going for the smaller homes and they are paying for them.”
Jim Haisler, chief executive officer for the McHenry County Association of Realtors in Crystal Lake, said the number of properties listed for sale jumped 6 percent between 2017 and 2018. In fact, he said, 40 homes just came onto the market last week. And if the statistics hold true, sellers will fetch nearly 96 percent of what they are asking for.
“It is moving from a balanced point toward a seller’s market,” Haisler said.
Haisler said supply remains tight, especially for homes selling for less than $200,000. They are on the market an average of 2.6 months.
“We don’t have enough sellers and we don’t have enough buyers,” he said. Haisler cited political unrest, a lack of new home-owning households and a shortage of entry level houses as factors. Young people are living with their parents longer. Also, companies such as Dallas-based Invitation Homes snapped up house that were foreclosed or under water during the mortgage crisis in order to rent them out.
According to the company’s website, it has more than 80,000 homes for lease in 17 markets. During the last quarter of 2018, it listed 3,437 homes in the Chicago area alone, with each tenant paying – on average - $1,971 a month.
Today is the deadline to apply for $1,000 Nancy Fike Scholarship. The McHenry County Historical Society awards a $1,000 scholarship each year to a graduating senior from a McHenry County high school who plans to study education, history, or the social sciences. This year’s essay topic relates to World War I. For details, visit www.gothistory.org.
Contributions to MCHS as part of the 9th Annual Human Race, April 28 at McHenry County College, benefit this scholarship fund. To donate, visit https://runsignup.com/Race/49128/Charity/7159.
The county board’s Planning & Development Committee on April 2 recommended architect Melody Jacobson of Woodstock, AT&T manager Susan Zeller of Crystal Lake, Realtor Sarah Metivier Schadt of Woodstock, teacher Alfonso Casal of Spring Grove, and Derek Gablenz, a Crystal Lake resident who teaches history in Barrington, for appointment to the McHenry County Historic Preservation Commission. The county board's Committee of the Whole will weigh in April 11 and the full county board will vote April 16.
Getting the commission up and running is critical. Not only has a landmark application for Ford School in Lake in the Hills been languishing since 2017, the historic Cold Springs School in Bull Valley and Haligus School near Lakewood are for sale. Each are unique assets that deserve to be preserved for future generations.
Join the McHenry County Historical Society at 7 p.m. tonight April 8, for "A Peek into the American Indian Way of Life Through Their History and Oral Traditions." Enter the world of the American Indian with Ojibwa Kim Sigafus and discover what it once was to be Native – and what it means to be Native now. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at the museum, 6422 Main St. in Union. The program is made possible with the help of Illinois Humanities. For details visit www.GotHistory.org for information.
Published April 8, 2019, in the Northwest Herald
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Live Chat Service Enhances the Ministry’s Interaction with the Business Sector. More than 300,000 Live Chats had been carried out through this service
Live Chat Service provided by the Ministry of Commerce and Investment has carried out more than 300,000 live chats for serving businessmen and business sector in general, besides responding immediately to their inquiries. All that through the Interactive Smart Services provided by the Ministry's Business Call Center.
This service, which supports the remote businessmen, witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of live chats amounted to (71,430) during 1438H, compared to (56.880) live chats during 1437H, the proportion of increase reached 25.6%.
Meanwhile, the total number of live chats conducted through this service, since its launching in April 2013, reached more than (303.800) by the end of last week.
The Live Chat Service can be availed and accessed through the official MCI website. It is also provided through the Business Call Center, which is considered a link between the Ministry, on one hand, and businessmen and investors, on the other hand.
It is worth mentioning that the Business Call Center, which provides its services through the toll free number (920000667), has carried out more than 2.7 million services for business sector, since its launching in March 2013. These services included, receiving businessmen calls, answering their queries, communicating with them, conducting live chats and providing technical support.
The services related to commercial institutions, trade names, trademarks, companies, advisory professions and commercial agencies accounted for the bulk of the services provided by the said center.
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'They're bloodsuckers': Montreal man says he lost nearly $400,000 in cryptocurrency scam
Published Thursday, November 18, 2021 7:57PM EST Last Updated Sunday, November 21, 2021 10:23AM EST
MONTREAL -- After losing nearly $400,000 in what he believes was a romance cryptocurrency scam, David still has dreams about the people who did this to him getting arrested and facing justice.
But he knows it’ll likely never happen in real life.
The Montreal resident has been seeing a psychologist ever since he realized that the woman he met on Facebook Dating in February wasn’t who she said she was and coaxed him into slowly emptying out his life savings.
“They're bloodsuckers, they're real criminals of the highest degrees,” said David.
David (a pseudonym) agreed to speak to CTV News on the condition that his real name is not published since he is self-employed and he fears revealing his identity will hurt his business.
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David appears to be the victim of a modern twist of the typical romance scheme whereby someone dupes another person in a new romantic relationship to send over money for an apparent urgent need and the perpetrator vanishes after the money is paid.
In his case, David said he developed an online relationship with the woman that, at first, appeared to be genuine. They would exchange messages daily on WhatsApp and share photos.
The woman, who was originally from China, would discourage doing video calls with him because she said her English wasn’t good enough for a live two-way call and was more comfortable with text-based chats instead, he said.
After a couple of months, she introduced the idea of investing in Bitcoin mining as a smart way to make money. First, he started with a deposit of $2,000 to convert into cryptocurrency into a site she had recommended to him.
But before he knew it, he said he eventually transferred all of his life’s savings that he had put aside from the sale of his house — about $390,000 — into this website.
'I WANT MY MONEY'
By June, news came out that China was cracking down on cryptocurrencies, telling major payment platforms and lenders that crypto trading won't be tolerated.
So, David said the woman told him to withdraw his money quickly so he wouldn’t lose his investments, which the site claimed had grown to around $900,000 USD.
When he contacted the site, he was told he could get his money out — but there was a catch. He had to pay a 15 per cent tax, which came to around $192,000.
Dumbfounded, he turned to his girlfriend for help.
“Suddenly her tonality changed [from the way] she was acting towards me: all lovey-dovey and always understanding and always there on the phone for me. We spoke, like, four or five times a day through WhatsApp. She said, basically, you have to pay these taxes and said, ‘I have to pay it, too. I'm in trouble as well. I have to find money from my friends,’” he recalled.
That’s when she suggested he ask his parents or his friends to lend him the cash.
“Are you crazy? I'm not asking anybody for $192,000. I want my money. And that's when I knew it was a fraud.”
His case is similar to another one where two Ontario women recently lost $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scam, except in their case there was no apparent romantic element.
David said he called Montreal police after failed attempts to get his money from the website. After a couple of exchanges over a two-month period, he said he was told that the case was being handed over to the fraud department. Then, another two months later, he said he was told by an officer that there was nothing they could do.
“What he did is he gave me a private investigator's phone number. He goes, ‘Look, try your luck with this.’ And that was it,” David said.
CTV requested an interview with Montreal police to ask why they weren’t able to assist David with his case, but they declined.
In an email, a spokesperson said the police service does not discuss its investigations due to confidentiality reasons, except for “very rare occasions.”
THE EMOTIONAL TOLL OF A ROMANCE SCAM
It’s been almost five months since he realized he was fooled and swindled out of his life’s savings and it still affects him to this day, he said.
He only gets justice in his dreams. In the real world, he’s picking up the pieces one day at a time.
“It's a big thorn in my side and there are nights that I don't sleep. And I've had to see a psychologist,” he said.
“I get a lot of anxiety, a lot of depression because of this.”
What hurts the most, he said, is that to this day he can log into the website and see his $400,000 sitting there.
“Imagine if someone stole $400,000 and they're putting it in your face every single day and you're telling the police, that's where I sent it to, and they can't do anything. That is what is killing me inside,” he said.
“That is what really hurts me the most and has destroyed a portion of my life, basically. So it's really taken an effect. And I still can't forgive myself for doing such a stupid thing. But people told me, my friends told me this happens everywhere. You just don't know about it.”
CRYPTOCURRENCY FRAUD ROSE 400 PER CENT IN CANADA: RCMP
David is not alone.
Cryptocurrency fraud rose by 400 per cent between 2017 and 2020, according to the RCMP. The national police force estimates that in the first eight months of 2020, Canadians lost close to $11 million in digital currency scams alone.
“A few short years ago, reports of frauds involving cryptocurrencies numbered in the hundreds (734 in 2017) and now they are over ten times that amount (7,598 for the first 8 months of 2020),” according to a RCMP news release from March.
Cryptocurrencies use strong encryption to help make transactions more secure, but the police noted this has its disadvantages.
“This makes the transfer of coins virtually untraceable and provides fraudsters with protection and anonymity from their victims. Scammers can also access the coins from anywhere in the world which further hampers their prosecution, even if they could be identified.
This is cold comfort for David, who is frustrated that the Montreal police seem to not have the resources to properly investigate cryptocurrency fraud and wonders why the RCMP or the FBI can’t get involved to assist in his case.
On Wednesday, the Hamilton Police Service announced it had partnered with the FBI in a joint investigation after a local teen allegedly stole $46 million from one person in what is believed to be the largest cryptocurrency scam in Canadian history. The investigation started in March 2020.
The Hamilton youth was charged with theft over $5,000 and possession of property or proceeds of crime.
Read more: Ontario teen arrested after allegedly stealing $46 million in cryptocurrency from one person in the U.S.
Sue Labine, a spokesperson for the RCMP’s Anti-Fraud Centre, said David’s case is an “unfortunate” one and is part of a new trend in the world of online scams.
“For this type of scam to occur it is new that they are linking it to the romance scam. So it makes it even more easy for a victim to fall for this scam,” she said in an interview.
"Unfortunately, it's untraceable. These scammers move very quickly and are able to remove their electronic tracings very quickly. As soon as they pull out the funds, they will move on to another platform."
POLICE LACK RESOURCES TO INVESTIGATE ALL CYBERCRIME REPORTS: EXPERT
Steve Waterhouse, a cybersecurity expert, said he’s not surprised that Montreal police weren't able to help David get his money back because investigating cybercrime is such a resource-intensive operation.
“By the time they just concentrate their efforts on one situation, they have 10 other cases that are popping up, and so they'll go to the most pressing one,” said Waterhouse, an information security lecturer at Université de Sherbrooke and a former information systems security officer with the Department of National Defence.
“I believe child pornography would be much more of a priority than a crypto scam happening just by the day before.”
Montreal is not alone in lacking the necessary resources to properly investigate cybercrimes, compared to forces in other countries, like in Europe, he said.
“But when you bring it down back to here in Montreal, definitely everybody in the service, whether it's going to be the Montreal police service or SQ (Sûreté du Québec), they do have to collaborate much more and share their resources because there [aren’t] a lot of people doing that.”
But things could change in a few years. The RCMP expects its new National Cybercrime Coordination Unit (NC3) to be fully operational by 2024 as part of the federal government’s National Cyber Security Strategy. The unit’s role will be to, among other things, coordinate cybercrime investigations in Canada and to collaborate with international partners to combat cybercrime.
Until then, David hopes his story will serve as a warning to other Canadians to think twice about jumping into huge financial decisions with people they meet on the Internet.
“I hope [by] me talking about this and exposing the website and ... the Facebook and all this that I will stop the next person from doing this mistake,” he said, “which I'm sure is happening right now as we speak because the website is still active.”
People who think they have been a victim of fraud can contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-495-8501 or report online at antifraudcentre.ca.
(File photo) Investing in crypto ETFs is a safer option, says Timmins financial advisor Jason Gervais, since purchasing the actual coins can open less-experienced people up to online theft. Aug.21/21
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Al-Azhar condemns anti-Islam cartoons on Dutch television
Al-Azhar, one of the most prominent sunni Islamic institutes of higher learning, has condemned a broadcast on Dutch television that showed cartoons about the Islamic prophet Muhammed. According to the institute located in Egypt the caricatures conceal a “sick fantasy”.
The video was produced by the anti-Islam political party PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) of Geert Wilders and was showed during the Dutch Broadcasting Time for Political Parties. In a declaration Al-Azhar calls upon Muslims to “ignore this act of terror.” “The stature of the prophet of mercy and humanity is too high and honorable to be damaged by drawings that do not respect moral or decent norms.”
The PVV leader Geert Wilders preceded the video with the words: “The best way to show terrorists that they will never win is by doing that which they are trying to prevent us to do. The cartoons were not shown to provoke but to show that we defend freedom of speech and will never bow to violence. Freedom of speech should always win vis-a-vis violence and terror.”
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 12th August 2015 Categories Discrimination and Xenophobia, Elections and Political Discourse, Featured, Featured Europe, Issues in Politics, Mosques and Community Centers, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations, Netherlands, Public Opinion and Islam in the MediaTags anti-Islam, caricatures, cartoons, Egypt, freedom, Geert Wilders, respect, terrorists, violence
Announcement of a Muslim Legal Defence League
Following the official launch of the “Muslim Legal Defence League” (“Ligue de défense judiciare des musulmans”) by the former lawyer Karim Achoulai this summer, their first action was announced to be a complaint to be made against the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo for their publication of caricatures depicting the Quran last week.
The objective of the group is to “legally defend individual victims of discrimination based on their associated or actual appearance linked to Islam and their religious belief”. The group aims to legally challenge Islamophobia and aid individuals who have suffered discrimination because of their belief.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 20th September 2013 Categories France, Mosques and Community Centers, Muslim Advocacy and OrganizationsTags caricatures, challenge, Charlie Hebdo, Defence League, Karim, lawyer, Le Figaro
French Interior Ministry Opens Strasbourg Mosque
News Agencies – September 27, 2012
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls opened the country’s largest Mosque in eastern France, in his first speech to Muslims after the insulting caricatures were released of the Prophet Mohammed. During the opening ceremony of the Great Mosque, Valls praised the wisdom of Muslim leaders, who have called their followers to keep calm following the publication of the caricatures by the Charlie Hebdo Weekly.
“Racism, fundamentalism are not part of Islam,” said the Minister, who also praised the wise and mature stance adopted by French Muslims. The Minister also warned that the government will expel those, who using the name of the Islam, try to attack institutions or cause any type of riots. The inauguration ceremony was attended by local authorities, as well as by representatives of other religions.
The building of the Great Mosque started in 1993 and was partially opened during the holy month of Ramadan in 2011, though it was closed afterwards to conclude the construction work.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 10th October 2012 Categories Muslim Advocacy and OrganizationsTags attack, caricatures, Charlie Hebdo, France, Great Mosque, Interior Minister, Interior Ministry, Manuel Valls, Muslim leaders, News Agencies September, Prophet Mohammed, Strasbourg
Louvre opens long-awaited Islamic Wing
France’s Louvre Museum is unveiling a new wing devoted to Islamic art, with the long-gestating project debuting during a period of increased tension with the Muslim community over a French publication’s caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
The Louvre’s new addition, which cost nearly 100 million euros (about $127 million Cdn) is its biggest project since the famed Parisian art museum unveiled its I.M. Pei-designed, now-iconic glass pyramid in 1988. The dragonfly-shaped new galleries will showcase a rotating display of artifacts from the Louvre’s collection of Islamic art, which includes pieces dating from as far back as the 7th century.
The museum first opened its Islamic art department in 2003, during the tenure of former French president Jacques Chirac, who urged a “dialogue of cultures” to break down walls between religions. France is home to more than four million Muslims, western Europe’s largest Muslim population.
However, an expansion was necessary because the Louvre did not have enough space to display what has grown to become a vast collection of Islamic art, including treasures donated by King Mohammed VI of Morocco and the foundation of Saudi Prince Waleed Bin Talal.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 3rd October 2012 Categories Youth and Pop CultureTags 100, art, caricatures, France Louvre Museum, Islamic art, Islamic Wing, Jacques Chirac, King Mohammed, museum, News Agencies September, Prophet Muhammad
France boosts embassy security over Muhammad cartoon
The French government stepped up security at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly published vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, inflaming global tensions over a movie insulting to Islam.
The move by the provocative weekly Charlie Hebdo followed days of violent protests from Asia to Africa against the U.S.-produced film Innocence of Muslims and turned France into a potential target of Muslim rage. Up to now, American government sites have drawn the most ire.
The French government ordered embassies and schools abroad to close on Friday, the Muslim holy day, as a precautionary measure in about 20 countries, according to the foreign affairs ministry. It ordered the immediate closure of the French Embassy and the French school in Tunisia, which saw deadly film-related protests at the U.S. Embassy last Friday.
The principle of freedom of expression “must not be infringed,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said, speaking on France Inter radio. But he added: “Is it pertinent, intelligent, in this context to pour oil on the fire? The answer is no.”
“This is a disgraceful and hateful, useless and stupid provocation,” said Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Paris Mosque. “We are not Pavlov’s animals to react at each insult.”
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 3rd October 2012 Categories Elections and Political DiscourseTags Africa, Asia, caricatures, France, ministry, movie, Muhammad, Muhammad cartoon, News Agencies September, Prophet Muhammad
French Council of the Muslim Faith Condemn Charlie Hebdo Attack
News Agencies – November 2, 2011
Politicians and Muslim leaders have denounced a firebomb attack that destroyed the offices of a satirical French newspaper after it “invited” the Prophet Mohammed as its guest editor. No one was injured in the fire at Charlie Hebdo weekly in eastern Paris, hours before the current issue hit the news-stands. The front-page of the weekly, subtitled “Sharia Hebdo,” a reference to Islamic law, showed a cartoon-like man with a turban, white robe and beard smiling broadly and saying, in an accompanying bubble, “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing.”
Mohammed Moussaoui, head of the French Council for the Muslim Faith, said his organisation deplored “the very mocking tone of the paper toward Islam and its prophet but reaffirms with force its total opposition to all acts and all forms of violence.” Dalil Boubakeur, who heads the Great Mosque of Paris, condemned “an act which can in no way represent the principles of liberty, tolerance and peace that are (our) message.” But he regretted the “anxious European climate of Islamophobia” fed in part by stigmatising Muslims through caricatures.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 5th November 2011 Categories Muslim Advocacy and OrganizationsTags 100, beard, Boubakeur, caricatures, Charlie Hebdo, French Council, Mohammed Moussaoui, Mosque of Paris, Muslim leaders, News Agencies November, Paris
Imam deported in Canada found near Mexican border
National Post – January 27, 2011
A controversial imam who was deported to Tunisia from Canada in 2007 is in U.S. custody after being discovered in the trunk of a BMW shortly after crossing over from Mexico. Said Jaziri, 43, was one of two illegal aliens apprehended on Jan. 11 just east of San Diego, said Steven Pitts, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman.
Canada revoked refugee status and deported the Muslim cleric, who encouraged demonstrations in Montreal against the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, after discovering that he had concealed the fact he had served jail time in France for assault.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 30th January 2011 Categories Security and CounterterrorismTags BMW, border patrol, Canada, caricatures, France, Imam, Mexico, National Post, Prophet Muhammad, San Diego
Calm demonstrations
Awaiting last Friday’s protests against the re-publications of the Muhammad caricatures, Norwegian Media and Muslim representatives worried about aggressive and violent demonstrations. But the demonstration (which attracted in between 2500-3000 persons) is reported to have been calm and orderly. Even so, 24-year old Mohyeldeen Mohammad from Larvik, Norway hinted at the possibility of terror attacks in Norway in a recent speech.
Author researcherPosted on 23rd February 2010 Categories Discrimination and Xenophobia, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Scandinavia, Security and CounterterrorismTags attacks, caricatures, Danish cartoon demonstrations in Norway, demonstration, demonstrations, Mohammad, Mohyeldeen Mohammad, Muhammad, Norway, Norwegian Media
1000 cab drivers in caricature demonstration
Last week Dagbladet published one of the infamous Muhammad caricatures – this one showing the prophet as a pig – as an illustration to an article on the caricature being used on the secret police’s Facebook page. The publication (shortly after Aftenpostens re-publication of the caricatures) has meet with massive protests and demonstrations in Norway.
Saturday and Monday nights, approximately 1000 cab drivers of Muslim cultural background parked their cars in Oslo in a silent protest against the re-publication.
Norwegian police, as well as representatives of Islamic Council Norway (IRN) and Islamic Cultural Center (ICC) in Oslo is expressing worries about a planned demonstration Friday. The demonstration is being organized on Facebook by Arfan Bhatti, who in 2008 was convicted for an attack on the synagogue in Oslo.
Shoaib Sultan of IRN, just as imam Mehboob ur-Rehman (ICC), advice against the demonstration. Both express worries that it easily could degenerate into a violent protest which would do (even more) damage to the general opinion of Muslims in Norway.
There are currently reports of about 3000 persons joining a supposedly calm demonstration in Oslo.
Author researcherPosted on 9th February 2010 Categories ScandinaviaTags caricatures, demonstration, Facebook, ICC, IRN, Muhammed cartoon in Norwegian newspaper, Norway, Oslo, police, protest
Caricature of Muhammad was published on Norwegian Secret Police’s Facebook Page
Someone has published one of the infamous caricatures – this one showing the Prophet Muhammad as a pig – on the Norwegian Secret Police (PST) Facebook page. Trond Hugubakken, spokes person for PST, says this is the act of one individual, not of the PST as such.
Author researcherPosted on 3rd February 2010 Categories ScandinaviaTags caricatures, Facebook, Mohammed cartoon, Muhammad, Norwegian Secret Police, Prophet Muhammad, PST, Trond Hugubakken
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Artwork of the Shamans
byMikel B. Classen
The war was on and it was time to make a stand. The tribes of the Iroquois had expanded too far. They had all of the lands towards the rising sun, now their greed seemed to drive them towards the Great Lakes, particularly Gitchee Gummee. No more. As Myeengun stood at the sacred rock, he knew his power was great enough to stop the intruders. The tribes of the Ojibwa would win. He had foreseen the battle. He called upon the power of the Michepezhoo, the beast of copper that lived below the surface of Gitchee Gumee. Myeengun caused the lake to rise against the Iroquois. The Michepezhoo rose up and consumed the Iroquois. They all drowned. Myeengun went to the sacred rock and alongside the pictures of his ancestors, he painted his own. He told of the battle and their victory. He left it there on the sacred rock for all generations to know; this was the land of the Ojibwa, respect it or die.
This is one of the tales that the dozens of paintings on the Agawa Rock in Agawa Bay, Ontario, depict. These “pictographs” have been left at Agawa Rock over a period of centuries by Ojibwa shamans when the entire Lake Superior basin was looked at as one territory.
They were first described to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft by a local Ojibwa shaman named Shingwauk (Little Pine) when he worked as an Indian Agent in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. He recorded them in his book Intellectual Capacity and Character of the Indian Race. Though he never saw them, their locations were described and they were located 100 miles north of the Soo along the Lake Superior lakeshore in 1958 by Selwyn Dewdney on the side of a cliff.
The area is now known as Lake Superior Provincial Park in Canada, between the Montreal River and the town of Wawa, approx. 100 miles north of the Soo. Agawa Rock is one of the attractions of the park, drawing thousands annually.
Though archaeologists are unable to identify the artists of most of the drawings, two names have been attached to some of the drawings, Myeengun and Shingwaukonce. Both are shamans from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Their drawings, as well as those unidentified, have become images known all around the Lake Superior basin and are frequently being used as icons of the area.
Agawa Rock’s importance culturally, spiritually and archaeologically can’t be overemphasized. Ojibwa pictographs are found all around the Lake Superior Basin, but nowhere are there so many of them in one place. Nor, are any so artistically developed and give so many glimpses into native beliefs and legends. They also describe events of historical record in a culture that passed history orally.
Shingwauk told Schoolcraft about a chief named Myeengun (Wolf of the Mermaid) who lived on the banks of the Carp River in the eastern Upper Peninsula. Their territory was the Straits of Mackinac, part of Lake Huron, north to the Soo. He was considered the Chief of the Ojibwa throughout the area, his name appears on a treaty in Ottawa, Canada. Myeengun was skilled in the rituals of the Meda, or Grand Medicine Lodge, the society of Ojibwa shamans. Myeengun’s influence was great and he led a war party in canoes up the Carp River, through Trout Lake, down the Tahquamenon and into Whitefish Bay. Then they paddled across Lake Superior, where they joined forces with the Agawa band of Ojibwa to do battle with the Iroquois. Through magic, the Iroquois were drowned. To commemorate the event, Myeengun left pictograph paintings at Agawa and somewhere along the Carp River which have never been found.
Some of the pictographs represent this event with canoe figures that have animal images alongside depicting their clans: thunderbird, beaver, and crane. These were left as a warning to others who would invade the land of the Ojibwa.
Symbols of magical protectors such as the Michipezhoo, and Mikinok, the land tortoise, have become well known images from around the Lake Superior area. The most often seen grouping of pictographs is that of the Michepezhoo cluster (Seen above in the top picture). There may have been more to this group, but a large chip of rock shaved off above the Michipezhoo and fell into Lake Superior.
The author of these drawings has been known right along. Shingwaukonce (Little White Pine) was from the Grand Island tribe, in Munising Bay, also on Lake Superior. He became Grand Shaman of the Lake Superior Ojibwa. According to oral histories, he went to Agawa to gather fresh power on a vision quest. He called forth Michipezhoo, the guardian spirit of the underworld and minerals, especially copper. Shingwaukonce completed his fast, finished rituals which included drawing the rock art, and then led his warriors in a revolt against copper miners.
There are many small individual rock art drawings. Some are very clear and easy to identify, while others are identifiable by slight ochre color changes in the rocks. Many of the pictographs have faded and worn. Nonetheless they are breathtaking to look at. It’s like looking back through time and each drawing being different stops on a time travel. The artists of these are unknown and probably always will be.
All of the pictographs are painted in a red ochre which was mined from an island a few miles north of Agawa called Devil’s Warehouse Island, a name bestowed upon it by Europeans. The ochre was mixed with fish oil and animal grease, then dabbed on the cliffs. They are remarkably durable and have withstood the vicious elements of Lake Superior. The reason that they have lasted this long is because the rock secretes a clear mineral fluid that acts as a natural varnish. There are reports from Ojibwa natives that a huge slab of some of the best paintings fell into the water several years ago.
Another of the other major clusters of pictographs is called the horse and rider group. This is another that was painted by Shingwaukonce after a ten day fast associated with a ritual duel between Shingwaukonce and a rival shaman over the spiritual leadership of the Lake Superior Ojibwa. The drawings represent Shingwaukonce’s power, like a primitive resume’, they describe his shamanic abilities.
A cross appears in the group. This represents a fourth degree shaman and is a symbol that predates Christianity. The four spheres depicts prayer circles. There is a faint louse in front of the horse which according to legend represents a time when Shingwaukonce turned himself into a louse so that he could ride a raven into the spirit world. The horse and rider is Shingwaukonce himself.
The pictographs are extremely delicate and should never be touched. They are looked on as religious objects by the Ojibwa, and it is not unusual to find offerings of tobacco and sweetgrass left at Agawa Rock.
Throughout the Lake Superior basin Ojibwa shamans have left pictographs. Besides Agawa Rock, there are several other sites in Lake Superior Provincial Park. There are some that have been located in the Pukaskwa (Puckasaw) area of Ontario; also at Schreiber, Ontario, this site has been kept undisclosed to protect the pictographs; Nipigon Bay, Ontario has many similar to Agawa Rock. There is also a small rock art site on a small island near Marquette, Michigan.
The rock art is a prehistoric heritage left behind for all who live around the Lake Superior basin. They represent a time that is shrouded in mystery and a culture that was nearly lost. They were created as a way of communicating across time and into the spirit worlds. In a book called Spirits On Stone the pictographs are summed up best this way: “The pictograph site location can energize or calm us. The setting certainly leads us away from the 20th century into a more natural world. In some ways, a poet can get closer to the site than a scientist.”
Author’s note: Information for this article came from a book called Spirits on Stone by Thor and Julie Conway, published by Heritage Discoveries Publications, San Luis Obispo, California. Other information came from Agawa Rock Indian Pictographs by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.
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Treaties of the Byzantine Empire
Peace treaties of Russia
10th-century treaties
Treaties of Kievan Rus'
910s in the Byzantine Empire
10th century in Kievan Rus'
Rus'–Byzantine Treaty (911)
The Rus'–Byzantine Treaty of 911 is the most comprehensive and detailed treaty concluded between the Byzantine Empire and Kievan Rus in the 10th century. It was preceded by the preliminary treaty of 907.
The text of the document, incorporated into the Primary Chronicle, has many affinities in content and phrasing with the trade treaties later concluded by Byzantium with the merchant republics of Italy. It was composed in two languages and signed personally by Emperor Leo VI. The text also includes speeches of the parties on the occasion. No treaties of comparable complexity and antiquity are known among the other societies in Europe of that time.
The treaty opens with a lengthy enumeration of the Rus' envoys, whose names are exclusively Norse: Karl, Ingjald, Farulf, Vermund, Hrollaf, Gunnar, Harold, Kami, Frithleif, Hroarr, Angantyr, Throand, Leithulf, Fast, and Steinvith. The articles 3 to 7 regulate criminal law and the life of their colony at Constantinople. There is also a proviso on inheritance of a merchant who died in the imperial capital. The article 8 is dedicated to maritime law. The following articles enlarge on ransom of captives, exchange of criminals, and the status of the Varangian mercenaries in Byzantine service.
Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks
(Russian) Повесть временных лет, ч. 1—2, М.—Л., 1950.
(Russian) Памятники русского права, в. 1, сост. А. А. Зимин, М., 1952 (библ.).
(Russian) Fyodor Uspensky. The History of the Byzantine Empire, vol. 2. Moscow: Mysl, 1997.
Lind, John H (2004). "Varangians in Europe's Eastern and Northern Periphery". http://www.ennenjanyt.net/4-04/lind.html. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
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Joining the National Guard
The concept of the citizen-soldier is an appealing one for some Americans–the opportunity to serve your country in uniform while still keeping a civilian job and a life “at home” is one many are eager to explore.
Some aren’t sure about a full-time commitment to what Gen. Colin Powell referred to as “the profession of arms”, and National Guard service is (among many other things) an opportunity to explore military service without signing up for a full-time tour of duty.
Evolution Of The National Guard
Some believe the United States Army or the U.S. Navy can claim to be the oldest military branch in America, but it isn’t technically true.
There were militias and proto-Guard units within the original colonies and the Army claims to have the oldest of the first National Guard units, which include (according to Army.mil) a number of Massachusetts units, said to have origins in the original colonial militia regiments which were activated in 1636:
181st Infantry Regiment
101st Field Artillery Regiment
101st Engineer Battalion
The Militia Act of May 8, 1792 was passed to authorize militia units created prior to the law to “retain their customary privileges.” The Militia Act of 1903, the National Defense Act of 1916, and other federal laws added to this original legislation.
The Army National Guard and The Air National Guard
Not all branches of service have a National Guard component. The Army and Air Force do. The history and evolution of the Army Guard, as mentioned above, traces back to the beginnings of America itself.
The Air National Guard was brought into service thanks to a reorganization of U.S. military forces after World War Two; the nation was no longer on a full-time “hot war” footing and needed to restructure in order to keep up with changing times.
The National Security Act of 1947 established both the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard, which was added as a reserve component of USAF. Today the Air Force has both a Reserve and a National Guard option, the same as the U.S. Army.
Some of the earliest Air National Guard units were mobilized to support the Korean War in 1950. It would be the first in a long line of support for active duty forces across a variety of missions and causes in both in peacetime and in wartime.
Joining The Army National Guard
When joining the Army National Guard, one of the first questions a potential recruit is asked is whether or not the applicant has prior military service. Guard opportunities for prior-service military will depend on the local Guard unit’s staffing needs, mission requirements, and other variables. It’s best to talk to a recruiter about being a prior-service Guard applicant about the best career choices based on your geographic preference for service and other variables.
The reason we mention this is because some Guard unit requirements may vary depending on the state, and not all who serve in the Guard live in the same physical proximity to a Guard base or unit.
Joining The Army National Guard As A Prior Service Applicant
If you wish to serve as a prior-service military member, your general requirements include:
The applicant must qualify for “non-regular retired pay” by age 60
You must meet education standards for the MOS you want
You must have a current DD 214, NGB22 or discharge order and have an approved DD Form 368 Conditional Release
Must meet fitness standards
Those who are prior service but have a break in military service may be required to attend Basic Combat Training–at the time of this writing if you have a five year break in service or more this may apply to you. Those who have not served in a decade or longer are required to retake the ASVAB.
Joining The Army National Guard As A Currently Serving Soldier
Enlisted Army Soldiers and officers may, at the time of this writing, qualify for reductions in their current military contract “and up to two years of stabilization or more depending on the state you enlist in.
Officers who wish to join the Guard directly from active duty must have “no adverse actions” and are required to talk to a transition officer about how to transition from active service to Guard service.
Joining The Army National Guard As A New Recruit
Those who are NOT prior service must meet the following requirements:
Be between the ages of 17 and 35
Be at least a junior in high school, or have a high school diploma or a GED certificate
Achieve a minimum score on the ASVAB test
Meet medical, physical and moral requirements
These standards apply regardless of what state you wish to serve in, and additional standards may apply depending on state law, changes to recruiting practices, executive orders, etc.
Prior service military members will need to discuss the rank issue-what rank you will enter National Guard service in-with a Guard recruiter. These standards are subject to change, are adjusted due to updates or modifications in service regulations and may also be adjusted to meet changing mission requirements.
Those who opt to join the Army Guard right out of high school have the option to attend “split training”, which the Army Guard recruiting official site describes as a process where the recruit signs up after turning 17 years old and starting their Junior year of high school.
Those who take this path “…attend Basic Combat Training during the summer between your junior and senior years,” according to Army literature. Parental consent in writing is required.
Army Guard Time Commitments
Army Guard time commitments are generally described on the Army National Guard official site as being one weekend per month along with a two-week training period each year. “For most of the training weekends, you’ll be with us Saturday and Sunday only, though occasionally you’ll be asked to report for duty on a Friday night,” according to the Army.
Scheduled training described as “Annual Training” may require slightly longer times depending on the nature of your military job. Other considerations may apply, especially in times where the Governor of the state requires activation of Army Guard units.
Duration Of Commitment
Newcomers may enlist for as few as three years, “with an additional commitment to the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR)” according to the official site. IRR Soldiers are not required to perform training with a unit while in IRR status, but they may still be mobilized for an emergency.
Prior-service military members may be subject to different commitment requirements depending on current policy and other factors.
Joining The Air National Guard
Like the Army Guard, learning how to join the Air National Guard depends on whether or not you are a prior-service military member or whether you are coming into the Guard with no military experience.
Joining The Air National Guard As A New Recruit
In general, the requirements to join the Air National Guard without prior military service will include the following:
Be a legal resident of the USA
Have a high school diploma or equivalency
Pass a medical screening
Those who are still in high school and interested in National Guard service must be seniors in most cases.
Joining The Air National Guard As Prior Service Military
For those who wish to join the Air National Guard with prior military experience, the following general requirements will apply:
Honorable Discharge from active duty service
Must be a U.S. citizen
Must have performed work in the Air Force Specialty Code the service member is re-entering military service with; this work must have taken place during the last enlistment served as active duty
Must have an “adjusted age” of 39 or lower
The adjusted age issue may sound more complicated than it really is. To calculate your adjusted age, “take your chronological age and subtract actual time in service credit. The result will be your adjusted age,” according to the Air Force official site.
Prior service military members will need to discuss what rank may be awarded upon entry into Air National Guard service in-with an Air Guard recruiter.
These standards are subject to change, are adjusted due to updates or modifications in service regulations and may also be adjusted to meet changing mission requirements.
Joining The Air National Guard From Active Duty
The Air National Guard accepts currently serving military members under two programs. One is called Palace Front and is for people who want to transition directly out of active duty once their commitment ends and into a Guard unit. Another program, Palace Chase, is for those who want to transition into the Guard but have not yet fulfilled their entire active duty service commitment.
Once an active duty military member has completed half their commitment, they are welcome to apply for Palace Chase and begin the transition from active to Guard service assuming the applicant qualifies and the active duty chain of command permits the transfer.
Air National Guard Time Commitments
The Air National Guard official site declares, at the time of this writing, that ANG service is part-time, generally consisting of one weekend a month “and a few weeks a year, at a minimum”.
Guard units are called in for support in times of need by the Governor of the state. Other considerations may apply, especially in times where the Governor of the state requires activation of Army Guard units for natural disasters or other pressing needs.
Those who wish to join with no prior service will enter the Air National Guard People with an eight-year obligation, but the last two years of that obligation are in the IRR, and in that status do not train but are subject to recall. Prior service military members should ask a Guard recruiter about current enlistment policies for prior service military as these are subject to change based on mission requirements and other variables.
Active Duty vs. Reserve or National Guard: What’s the Difference National Guard Tuition Assistance
ART vs AGR vs TR Jobs In The Guard/Reserve Top 5 Benefits of the Army Reserve
Blended Retirement System: Guard, Reserves National Guard Birthday
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Thomas Jewell III
Posted on October 19, 2010 by markeminer
Thomas JEWELL III (1707 – 1772) was Alex’s 7th Great Grandfather, one of 256 in this generation of the Shaw line.
Thomas Jewell was born 10 Sep 1707 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts. His parents were John J JEWELL and Hannah PROWSE. He married Judith LANCASTER on 19 Feb 1731/32 in Amesbury, Mass. After Judith died, he married Marion [__?_]. Thomas died Jun 1772 in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Thomas lived the last part of his life in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Mass, a town , just over 30 miles from Boston. The town is best known as the starting point of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriots’ Day in April, and as the home of computer storage firm EMC Corporation.
Judith Lancaster was born 29 Jul 1704 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Her parents were Henry LANCASTER II and Sarah BAGLEY. Judith died 20 Mar 1751 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts.
Children of Thomas and Judith:
1. Henry L Jewell 19 Dec 1732
Amesbury, Mass Sarah Gould
Amesbury, Mass 1762
South Hampton, Rockingham, NH
2. John Jewell (twin) 25 Jul 1737
Rumford, Merrimack, New Hampshire 1738
3. Sarah Jewell (twin) 25 Jul 1737
Rumford, Merrimack, New Hampshire William Peters
15 Oct 1766 Hopkinton, Merrimack, NH
[__?__] Carr 22 Jun 1812 – Henniker, Merrimack, NH
4. Judith Jewell (twin) 5 Jul 1742
Rumford, Merrimack, New Hampshire. John Eastman
New Hampshire 1784 Mass.
5. Sarah JEWELL (twin) 5 Jul 1742 Rumford Nathan BALCOM
12 Jan 1768 Attleboro, Mass c. 1847 at the age of 94
6. Abel Jewell 1744
7. James Jewell 1745
Newbury, Mass Susannah Brackett
1 Nov 1765 Georgetown, Lincoln, Maine After 1800 – Hancock, Maine
8. Hannah Jewell 22 Sep 1748 1749
9. Anna Jewell 5 Aug 1753 1754
1. Henry L Jewell
Jewell, Henry Lancaster, 1732-1762 In Capt. Trueworthy Ladd’s Co., Colonel John Hart’s regiment for Canada service, 1758, French and Indian Wars.
Henry once lived in the vicinity of Concord, New Hampshire. He was wounded in the leg, in the ‘Old French’ war, which resulted in the capture of Quebec by General James Wolfe in 1759. Henry died of measles after his return
Between 1758 and 1760, the British military successfully penetrated the heartland of New France, and took control of Montreal in September 1760. France ceded French Louisiana west of the Mississippi River to its ally Spain in compensation for Spain’s loss to Britain of Florida (which Spain had ceded to Britain in exchange for the return of Havana, Cuba).
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec, was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years’ War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States). The battle, which began on Sep 13 1759, was fought between the British Army and Navy, and the French Army, on a plateau just outside the walls of Quebec City, on land that was originally owned by a farmer named Abraham Martin, hence the name of the battle. The battle involved fewer than 10,000 troops between both sides, but proved to be a deciding moment in the conflict between France and Britain over the fate of New France, influencing the later creation of Canada.
Henry’s wife Sarah Gould was born 19 Jun 1730 in Amesbury, Essex, Mass. Her parents were Joseph Gould (1709 – 1757) and Mary Colby (1711 -). After Henry died, Sarah accompanied her children Henry and Enos to Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine, where she married Joseph Huntington (b. 3 Aug 1721 in Amesbury, Essex, Mass – d. 1811 in South Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire.) Sarah and Timothy had one son Benjamin Huntington (1766 – 1845). Sarah died at an advanced age in Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine.
Children of Henry and Sarah:
i. Henry Jewell b. 5 Mar 1753 Amesbury, Essex, Mass; d. 20 Aug 1827 Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine; m. 1772 to Sarah Greeley (b. 1760 in Mass.) Henry and Sarah had eleven children born between 1773 and 1798 in Litchfield.
Henry Jewell Bio – Source: History of Litchfield and an Account of Its Centennial Celebrations, 1895
ii. Enos Jewell b. 1754 Amesbury, Essex, Mass; d. 1831 Ogden, Monroe, New York; m1. 1780 in Topsham Sagadahoc, Maine to Deborah Hall (b. 23 Dec 1748 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass.) Deborah’s parents were John Hall (1713-1770) and Zilpha Crooker (1724 – ). Enos and Deborah had six children born between 1781 and 1790. m2. 11 Jun 1808 Age: 54 Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine to Abigail Chamberlain
Enos lived near Potter’s Corner in Litchfield, Maine.
Enos Jewell and his wife Abigail (Chamberlain) Jewell were early pioneers of Ogden, Monroe County, New York. (The “Jewell Register” information is incorrect. He did not die in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence, NY.) Enos and Abigail helped to establish the first church there in Ogden. Enos Jewell married a third time to a woman named Mary (last name as yet unknown). He left his home and land (33 acres) to his granddaughter and “one dollar to each of his other children” in his will.
iii. Joseph Jewell b. 12 Mar 1759 Southampton, NH or Amesbury, Essex, Mass; d. 1812 Albany, New York; m. Feb 1783 to Anna Daniels; Joseph and Anna had three children born between 1783 and 1796.
Joseph was a private in Capt William H. Ballard’s company, Col. James Frye‘s 10th Massachusetts Regiment May 1775, It served in the Siege of Boston until its disbandment at the end of 1775. Col. Frye’s report of Oct 6 1775 places Joseph Jewell as having gone on the Quebec Expedition (See my post Invasion of Canada – 1775).
Joseph was a private in Capt. James Calfe’ company, Col. Pierse Long’s Regiment in the New Hampshire Militia Sept 25 1776 – 1777. At Piscataqua Harbor NH Dec 1776; Same company Jan 7 17777
Long’s Regiment was raised on May 14, 1776 at New Castle, New Hampshire under Colonel Pierse Long for service with the Continental Army. The regiment was stationed at Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence on Lake Champlain and fought a delaying action at Fort Ann, New York on July 8, 1777 against the advance units of John Burgoyne’s army. The regiment was disbanded at the end of July, 1777 in northern New York as the one year enlistments of the men ran out before the main engagements of the Saratoga Campaign. Col. Long and some of the men of the regiment joined other New Hampshire regiments that fought at Saratoga.
Joseph was a private in Capt. Frederick M. Ball’s company, Col. Nathan Hale’s (Not to be confused with Nathan Hale, the famous Revolutionary War spy) This Nathan Hale was taken prisoner by the British at the Battle of Hubbardton and died on Sep 23 1780) 2nd Regiment New Hampshire Line. On Jan 24 1777 Joseph was promoted to corporal, enlisting for three years, same company and regiment, 1777, 1778, and 1779. He served to 1781. The 2nd NH saw action at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton, Battle of Hubbardton, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Monmouth, the Sullivan Expedition and the Battle of Yorktown.
Nathan Hale was promoted to colonel on Apr 2, 1777. In the same year he served with Major General Arthur St. Clair at the Siege of Fort Ticonderoga. The Siege took place from July 2–6, 1777 and was between the United States against the British. Arthur St. Clair led about 3,000 men against John Burgoyne and William Phillips who led 7,000 men as well as about 800 Indians and Canadians. Not much was done in the battle and Burgoyne took over Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Independence while the Americans retreated.
Hale fought in the Battle of Hubbardton where he was taken prisoner by the British on July 7, 1777. His surrender there was the subject of controversy. Hale was arrested for treason but was never allowed a trial to explain himself. He was later let off on limited parole where Hale was not allowed to serve in the Army and he had to come back to the enemy lines after two years unless he was exchanged. He returned to Rindge on July 20, 1777. Since he was not exchanged, Hale went back to the prison on June 14, 1779. Hale died on September 23, 1780 in New Utrecht, Brooklyn while in prison.
The Battle of Hubbardton was an engagement in the Saratoga campaign fought in the village of Hubbardton, then in the disputed New Hampshire Grants territory (now Vermont). On the morning of Jul 7 1777, British forces, under General Simon Fraser, caught up with the American rear guard of the forces retreating after the withdrawal from Fort Ticonderoga. It was the only battle in present day Vermont during the revolution. (The Battle of Bennington was fought in what is now Walloomsac, New York.)
The American retreat from Fort Ticonderoga began late on July 5 after British cannons were seen on top of high ground that commanded the fort. The bulk of General Arthur St. Clair’s army retreated through Hubbardton to Castleton, while the rear guard, commanded by Seth Warner, stopped at Hubbardton to rest and pick up stragglers.
General Fraser, alerted to the American withdrawal early on July 6, immediately set out in pursuit, leaving a message for General John Burgoyne to send reinforcements as quickly as possible. That night Fraser camped a few miles short of Hubbardton, and the German General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, leading reinforcements, camped a few miles further back. Rising early in the morning, Fraser reached Hubbardton, where he surprised some elements of the American rear, while other elements managed to form defensive lines. In spirited battle, the Americans were driven back, but had almost succeeded in turning Fraser’s left flank when Riedesel and his German reinforcements arrived, eventually scattering the American forces.
The battle took a large enough toll on the British forces that they did not further pursue the main American army. The many American prisoners were sent to Ticonderoga while most of the British troops made their way to Skenesboro to rejoin Burgoyne’s army. Most of the scattered American remnants made their way to rejoin St. Clair’s army on its way toward the Hudson River.
The 2nd New Hampshire’s Regimental colours that were captured at Hubbardton and returned to the state of New Hampshire are now housed at the New Hampshire State House in Concord, New Hampshire. It is one of only a few American battle flags from the American Revolution known to still exist. They were lost July 8, 1777, to the British near Fort Anne, New York, when ammunition ran out after a brave defense in which the Ninth British Regiment of Foot were themselves nearly captured. The Americans retreated to General Schuyler’s headquarters at Fort Edward, but Lt. Colonel Hill, the English commander, ended up with their flags and took them to England. They remained there with his descendants until 1912, when they were bought and presented to the New Hampshire Historical Society.”
iv. Thomas Jewell b. 1762 Essex, Mass; d. 1781
4. Sarah Jewell
Sarah’s husband William Peters was born 7 Dec 1740 in Concord or Rumford, Merrimack, New Hampshire. His parents were James Peters (1711 – 1801) and Elizabeth Farnham (1718 – 1793). William was killed by a falling tree 5 Jul 1775 in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire while working with Lt. Samuel Wadsworth. After William died, Sarah married [__?__] Carr.
Sarah and William lived in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire. The township was first known as Number Six in a line of settlements running between the Merrimack and Connecticut rivers. In 1752, the Masonian Proprietors granted the land to Andrew Todd, who called it Todd’s Town. Settled in 1761 by James Peter, it was dubbed New Marlborough by others from Marlboro, Massachusetts. Incorporated in 1768 by Governor John Wentworth, the town was named for Sir John Henniker, a London merchant of leather and fur, with shipping interests in Boston and Portsmouth.
In the 19th century Henniker had a high rate of congenital deafness, and its own sign language, which may have played a significant role in the emergence of American Sign Language. The game of paintball originated in Henniker in 1981.
William’s father James Peters appears on the alarm list of the Henniker train band May 21 1776, Capt. Aaron Adams. He was a signer of the Association Test at Henniker New Hampshhire (65 years of age)
James Peters Bio – Source: Peters of New England: a genealogy, and family history By Eleanor Bradley Peters — 1903
William Peters Bio – Source: Peters of New England: a genealogy, and family history
By Eleanor Bradley Peters — 1903
Children of Sarah and William:
i. Sibbon Peters d. prior to 1772 age 6
ii. Joseph Peters b. 1768 Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire; m. 20 Nov 1791 Age: 23 to Sarah Carter (b. 6 Apr 1769 in Of Boscawen, Merrimack, NH – d. 12 May 1796 Boscawen, Merrimack, NH) Sarah’s parents were Winthrop Carter (1736 – 1808) and Susanna Eastman (1738 – 1828)
iii. Mary Peters b. 1770 Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire;
iv,. Jacob Peters b. 17 Aug 1772 in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire; d. 19 Sep 1845 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire; m1. 3 Dec 1793 Henniker to Sarah Wood Eager (b. Henniker – d. 16 Jul 1814 in Henniker); Sarah’s father was Joseph Eager. Jacob and Sarah had five children born between 1794 and 1809.; m2. 7 Sep 1815 Age: 43 Henniker to Anna Cochran (b. 1785 Bradford, NH – d. 19 Sep 1865 Henniker) Jacob and Anna had four more children between 1816 and 1831.
In the 1860 census, Anna Cochran Peters was living with her daughter and son-in-law Sarah and Joseph Colby in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire
4. Judith Jewell
Judith’s husband John Eastman was born 11 May 1739 in Rumford, Merrimack, New Hampshire. His parents were Joseph Eastman (1692 – 1761) and Abigail Merrill (1693 – ). John died 8 Jul 1777 in Fort Ann, Washington, New York.
John volunteered in 1775 and marched to Charlestown. He was in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He enlisted again in Jan or Feb 1776 under Capt. John Hale and marched to Canada under Col. John Stark and when returned enlisted again under Capt. Nathaniel Hutchins, Col. Cilley’s Regiment. John was was shot in the head at the Battle of Fort Ann near Saratoga and died instantly.
The Battle of Fort Anne, fought on July 8, 1777, was an engagement between Continental Army forces in retreat from Fort Ticonderoga and forward elements of John Burgoyne’s much larger British army that had driven them from Ticonderoga, early in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
Battle of Fort Ann — A view of the saw-mill & block house upon Fort Anne Creek, the property of Genl. Skeene, which on Genl. Burgoyne’s army advancing, was set fire to, by the Americans. Print shows a sawmill belonging to loyalist Philip Skene and the blockhouse at Fort Anne which were burned by American forces, reteating in advance of the British army under the command of General Burgoyne.
Burgoyne, surprised by the American withdrawal from Fort Ticonderoga, hurried as many of his troops as possible forward in pursuit of the retreating Americans. The main body of the American forces had departed Fort Independence down the road to Hubbardton, and a smaller body of troops, accompanying the sick, wounded, and camp followers that had also evacuated the fort, had sailed up Lake Champlain to Skenesboro, moving from there overland to Fort Edward. This group, which included about 600 men under arms, paused at Fort Anne, where a smaller advance company from Burgoyne’s army caught up to them. The British, clearly outnumbered, sent for reinforcements. The Americans decided to attack while they had the numerical advantage, and succeeded in nearly surrounding the British position about three quarters of a mile north of the fort. The Americans retreated back to the fort when war whoops indicated the arrival of British reinforcements. While this was a ruse (the reinforcements were a single officer), it saved the British force from probable capture. More of Burgoyne’s army soon came down the road, forcing the Americans to retreat from Fort Anne to Fort Edward.
It has been claimed that a flag was flown at Fort Anne that may have been the first instance of a flag consisting of stars and stripes; this claim is supposedly false.
John and Judith settled in Hopkinton Merrimack (then Hillsborough), New Hampshire. The town was granted by Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher in 1735 as “Number 5” to settlers from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, who renamed it “New Hopkinton.” First settled in 1736, colonists were required to build homes, fence in their land, plant it with English grass, and provide a home for a minister, all within seven years. The community was incorporated in 1765 by Governor Benning Wentworth. Built in 1789, the Congregational Church has a Revere bell. The legislature met in Hopkinton occasionally between 1798 and 1807. In 1808, the town competed for the coveted position of state capitol, but was defeated by nearby Concord. Today, the town is home to the Hopkinton State Fair, adjacent to Contoocook village.
Children of Judith and John:
i. Joseph Eastman b. 22 Sep 1763 in Hopkinton, Merrimack, New Hampshire; d. 1777 New York
ii. Henry Eastman b. 12 Aug 1765 in Hopkinton, Merrimack, New Hampshire; d. 1 Feb 1845 Grantham, Sullivan, New Hampshire; m. Sarah Bean (b. Mar 1767 in Raymond, Rockingham, New Hampshire – d. 23 Sep 1833 in Sullivan, New Hampshire) Sarah’s parents were Jeremiah Bean (1732 – 1797) and Abigail Prescott (1730 – ) Henry and Sarah had three children born between 1790 and 1819.
Henry was a veteran with a half year pension of $19.17.
iii. Abel Eastman b. 11 Oct 1766 in Hopkinton, Merrimack, New Hampshire; d. 1812 Port Gibson, Claiborne, Missisippi; m. 12 Jun 1797 in Opelousas, Saint Landry, Louisiana to Salome Celeste Harmon (b. 1778 in Pennsylvania Saint Landry, Evangeline, Louisiana – d. 1813 in Mississippi) Salome’s parents were Jacob Harmon (1745 – 1809) and Hannah Guice (1750 – )Abel and Salome had six children born between 1796 and 1810
iv. Judith Eastman b. 27 Mar 1770 in Hopkinton, Merrimack, New Hampshire;
v. John Eastman b. 22 Mar 1772 in Hopkinton, Merrimack, New Hampshire;
vi. Anna Eastman b. 1 Jun 1773 in Hopkinton, Merrimack, New Hampshire; d. 16 Dec 1837
vii. Abigail Eastman b. 4 Apr 1775 in Hopkinton, Merrimack, New Hampshire; It’s possible that Abigail’s parents were Edward Eastman and Anna Judkins
5. Sarah JEWELL (See Nathan BALCOM‘s page)
Now that I have found evidence that the Sarah Jewell born in 1737 did not die young, perhaps, our Sarah belongs to a different Jewell family.
7. James Jewell
Alternatively, James was born in England and left an orphan; stowed away on a ship for America. Came to Fox Islands (Vinalhaven) by 1790 and later moved to Monmouth. Birth in England substantiated by son, Samuel in 1880 census where he cites father’s birth place as England
James’ wife Susannah Brackett was born 7 Oct 1748 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine. S Her parents were Abraham Brackett (1714 – 1806) and Joanna Springer ( – 1781) Susannah died 19 Nov 1838 in Vinalhaven, Knox, Maine.
James and Susannah lived in Vinalhaven, a town located in the Fox Islands in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,165 at the 2010 census. It is home to a thriving lobster fishery and hosts a summer colony. Since there is no bridge to the island, Vinalhaven is accessible from Rockland via an approximately hour-and-fifteen-minute ferry ride across West Penobscot Bay, or by air taxi from Knox County Regional Airport.
The first permanent English settlement occurred in 1766 when Thaddeus Carver from Marshfield, Massachusetts, arrived, and later purchased 700 acres on the southern shore near what would become known as Carver’s Harbor. Others soon followed to establish the remote fishing and farming community in the Gulf of Maine. The first families of Vinalhaven are considered to be Arey, Calderwood, Carver, Coombs, Dyer, Ginn, Greem, Hopkins, Lane, Leadbetter, Norton, Philbrook, Pierce, Roberts, Smith, Warren and Vinal. On June 25, 1789, Vinalhaven was incorporated as a town, named for John Vinal. Vinal was not an island resident, merely the agent who petitioned the Maine General Court to incorporate the new township; nonetheless the name stuck. High quality granite was discovered in 1826, and Vinalhaven became one of Maine’s largest quarrying centers for the next century.
Vinalhaven Village
James Jewell, a Patriot, originally settled on Vinalhaven in 1750 or 1760. He built the house at Joe Calderwood’s which was then known as Jewell’s Point. A Tory, Anthony Coombs, lived nearby at Coomb’s Neck. The Red Coats were at Castine, Maine. James Jewell heard that the Red Coats were coming to take him and he hid in a hollow tree. His wife, Susannah Brackett, would not tell where her husband was so the Red Coats burned down the house, as was their custom. That night, 19 May 1770, [their] great great grandmother (Susannah Jewell) was born in the ashes. She lies buried in Roberts Cemetary. (Vinalhaven, Maine) Source: As told by Neil Moody Calderwood in July, 1979 to his brother and sister
I have read that they had 14 children, so far have only identified 12. Would love to find out their names and anything anyone has on them.
Children of James and Susannah:
i. James A Jewell b. 5 May 1764 in Phippsburg, Lincoln, Maine; d. 14 Nov 1852 in Phippsburg; Burial: Jewell Family Cemetery, Phippsburg; m. 1790 Vinalhaven to Abigail Brown (b 22 Nov 1772 in Vinalhaven, Lincoln, Maine – d. 4 Mar 1843 in Phippsburg, Lincoln, Maine) Abigail’s parents were Dr. Thomas Brown Jr (1738 – 1825) and Mary Hopkins (1755 – 1786). James and Abigail had eight children born between 1795 and 1812.
In the War of 1812, James was a private in Col. Benedict’s Regiment of New York Militia.
In the 1850 census, James was living with his son Abraham in Phippsburg, Lincoln, Maine.
ii. Mary “Molly” Jewell b. ~ 1768 in Georgetown, Lincoln, Maine; d. 1 Jul 1805 in Monmouth, Kennebec, Maine; m. 25 Nov 1790 – Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine to John Merrill (b. 29 Jul 1764 in Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine – d. 15 Jun 1845 in North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine) John’s parents were Abel Merrill (1736 – 1788) and Abigail Knight (1739 – 1782). Mary and John had six children born between 1791 and 1802. After Molly died, John married 30 Jun 1805 Age: 40 North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine to Elizabeth “Betsey” Grover (1768 – ) and had five more children.
iii. Susannah “Susan” Jewell b. 19 May 1770 in Vinalhaven, Lincoln, Maine; d. 29 Apr 1835 in Vinalhaven, Hancock, Maine; Burial: Roberts Harbor Cemetery. (Vinalhaven, Maine; m. 1790 Vinalhaven to Israel Carver (b. 9 Jul 1769 in Vinalhaven, Lincoln, Maine – d. 24 Mar 1856 in Vinalhaven, Knox, Maine) Israel’s parents were Israel Carver Sr. (1740 – 1825) and Margaret Sherman (1745 – 1797). Susan and Israel had twelve children born between 1791 and 1816.
Israel Carver Real Estate on Vinalhaven, Maine. Real Estate — From 2099 advertisement
iv. Abraham Jewell b. ~ 1776 in Fox Island (North Haven), Lincoln, Maine; d. Aug 1851 Wales, Androscoggin, Maine; m1. 27 Mar 1797 Age: 21 Vinalhaven, Knox, Maine to Abigail Lane (b. ~1777 Knox, Maine – ). Abigail’s parents were Isacher Lane and Susannah Hall (1763 – 1837). Abraham and Abigail had two children Issacher (b. 1799) and Margaret Jewell (b. 1800 ); m2. Hannah Jenkins (b. ~1781 in Maine – d. 1850-1860 in Wales, Androscoggin, Maine) Hannah’s parents were Philip Jenkins (1750 – 1825) and Tamsin Thompson (1748 – ) Abraham and Hannah had four children born between 1818 and 1827
In the 1850 census, Abraham and Hannah were living in Wales, Kennebec, Maine
v. Sarah “Sally” Jewell b. 9 Dec 1777 in Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine; d. 3 Apr 1849 in Monmouth, Kennebec, Maine; m. Jotham Thompson (b. 2 Nov 1774 in Monmouth, Kennebec, ME- 16 Jan 1833 Monmouth, Maine) Jotham’s brother Benjamin married Sally’s sister Annie and his sister Priscilla married Sally’s brother Nathaniel. Their parents were Jonathan Thompson (1748 – ) and his cousin Martha Thompson (1751 – 1849) Sally and Jotham had eight children born between 1798 and 1820.
Jotham was a selectman in Monmouth in 1806, 1807 and 1811.
Part of the Plymouth Patent, Monmouth was first settled as Freetown in 1776-1777 by families from Brunswick. It would also be called Bloomingborough and Wales before being incorporated by the Massachusetts General Court on Jan 20 1792 as Monmouth, after Monmouth, New Jersey. The name was suggested by landowner General Henry Dearborn, who had fought in the Battle of Monmouth on Jun 28 1778. Monmouth was considered one of the best agricultural towns in the state, producing hay, apples and potatoes, in addition to beef cattle and dairy products. It also had excellent sites for watermills
vi. Anne “Annie” Jewell b. 1782 in Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine; d. 17 Mar 1866 in Phippsburg, Sagadahoc, Maine; m. 1798 Monmouth to Benjamin Thompson (b. 9 Feb 1781 in Monmouth, Kennebec, Maine – d. 21 Jan 1832 in Phippsburg, Sagadahoc, Maine) Benjamin’s brother Jotham married Annie’s sister Sally and his sister Priscilla married Sally’s brother Nathaniel. . Their parents were Jonathan Thompson (1748 – ) and his cousin Martha Thompson (1751 – 1849) Annie and Benjamin had five children between 1806 and 1819.
In the 1860 census, Ann was living with her daughter and son-in-law Jane and Elias Totterman near Parker Head in Phippsburg, Sagadahoc, Maine.
vii. Nathaniel Jewell b. ~ 1783 in Fox Island, Maine;d. 1838 in Wales, Androscoggin, Maine; m. 1 Dec 1803 – Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine to Priscilla Thompson (b. 10 Mar 1779 in Monmouth, Kennebec, Maine – d. 1850) Priscilla’s brother Jotham married Nathaniel’s sister Sally and her brother Benjamin married Nathaniel’s sister Annie. Their parents were Jonathan Thompson (1748 – ) and his cousin Martha Thompson (1751 – 1849).
Nathaniel Jewell left Fox Island for Wales Plantation, Kennebec Maine. He settled on Thompson Hill. Occupation: Brick mason. Served as Capt in the War of 1812.
viii. Robert Jewell b. 5 Mar 1786 in Fox Island (North Haven), Lincoln, Maine; d. 12 Mar 1857 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine; m1. 20 Feb 1810 Age: 23 to Deborah Grover (b. ~1790 in Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine – d. bef. 23 Sep 1817) Deborah’s parents were Andrew Grover (1750 – 1837) and Mary Pote (1755 – ) Robert and Deborah had two children; m2. to Deborah’s sister Leonice “Nicy” Grover (b. 9 Sep 1793 North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Mainee – d. 2 Oct 1855 Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine) Robert and Nicy had seven more children born between 1819 and 1836.
ix Elizabeth C Jewell b. 5 Apr 1787 in Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine; d. 31 Oct 1854 in Phillips, Franklin, Maine; m. 20 Feb 1811 Chesterville, Kennebec, Maine to Abraham Wyman (b. 25 Jul 1790 in Chesterville, Franklin, Maine – d. 4 Jul 1874 in Monroe, Green, Wisconsin; Burial: Cataract Cemetery, Cataract, Monroe) Elizabeth and Abraham had eight children born between 1812 and 1834.
Monroe is known as “the Swiss Cheese Capital of the USA”
In the 1850 census, Abraham and Betsey were farming in Phillips, Franklin, Maine.
x. Jane Jewell b. 27 Apr 1789 in Vinalhaven, Knox, Maine; d. 27 Dec 1852 in Limerick, York, Maine; m. 28 Nov 1809 – Limerick, York, Maine to Rev. Elias Libby (b. 12 Mar 1790 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine – d. 2 Apr 1871 in Limerick, York, Maine) Elias’ brother Parmenio married Jane’s sister Eunice. Their parents were Abner Libby (1766 – 1843) and Anna Harding (1767 – 1857). Jane and Elias had three children born between 1811 and 1834. After Jane died, When he was 65, Elias married Hannah McGrath on 26 Oct 1855 in Limerick, York, Maine.
Rev. Elias Libby (1790 – 1871)
Elias served during the war of 1812 as Orderly Sergeant.
Rev. Elias Libby grew up in Limington and gained the blacksmith’s trade by working in his father’s shop. Shortly after his marriage he removed to Limerick. He was there in business as blacksmith and carriage maker as well as the owner of a general store. In 1821 the Freewill Baptists held their first meetings in the central part of Limerick, and Elias Libby soon became the leader of the movement. The next year a church of thirty members was formed, and he, having been ordained a preacher, first took charge of it. He continued to be an active elder of that denomination throughout his life. He was instrumental in establishing a paper called “The Morning Star,” which was published by him and others for many years in Limerick, in the interest of the Freewill Baptists.
In 1825 he had a conversation with Samuel Burbank on the subject of establishing a weekly paper, and agreed to refer the project to the Parsonfield Q. M. This led to the publication of the Morning Star at Limerick in May, 1826, with Elias Libby and eight others financially responsible for the enterprise for one year. The success of the undertaking brought Rev. Samuel Burbank and Wm. Burr into the Limerick church.
In 1827 what has been termed “a season of refreshing” took place. The next year thirty members were added to the church, and in 1830 and 1831 more than sixty more members were added.
In 1839 he joined the Second Wakefield church, while still remaining as residenct of Limerick. In 1840 he connected himself with the First Parsonfield church, maintaining this relation for ten years. He continued to engage in an itinerant ministry, preferring it to a pastorate.
In the 1850 census, Elias and Jane were living in Limerick, York, Maine where Elias was a Free Will Baptist Clergyman.
The Morning Star was a weekly newspaper owned and published by Freewill Baptists in 19th century New England, which campaigned vigorously for the abolition of slavery long before such a political stance was widely considered to be respectable in America.
The first issue was published in Limerick, Maine on 11 May 1826.[1] Seven years later the newspaper relocated to Dover, New Hampshire, and it continued to be published in that town by Moses Cheney from November 1833 until December 1874. Thereafter it was published in various cities including Portland, Boston, New York and Chicago, until its final issue rolled off the presses some time in 1911.
Until 1834 the newspaper concerned itself mainly with religion, and largely kept out of politics. When it commented on slavery it took a conservative attitude, with editorials denouncing radical abolitionists and counselling “the exercise of moderation and charity”.
On the death of the editor Samuel Beede in March 1834, however, control was passed to William Burr, who immediately re-launched The Morning Star as a newspaper that would campaign vigorously and tirelessly for the complete abolition of slavery. This was a remarkable position for an American publication to take at that time, especially in an overwhelmingly white town where the major employers were large cotton mills: Dover’s prosperity depended to a great extent, indirectly, on slave labour in the South.
Burr’s principled move plunged the newspaper rapidly into crisis. Publication had to be suspended for a while because the New Hampshire State Legislature refused to grant The Morning Star an Act of Incorporation on account of the paper’s campaigning activities.
The abolitionist message did not go down well with readers. Sales plummeted, and the editor was denounced by delegates to the 1837 General Conference of Freewill Baptists, who put forward a motion calling for the paper to cease its campaign against slavery “so as to avert from the denomination the public odium heaped upon abolitionists, and to reconcile the disaffected members.” The motion was defeated.
In 1841, in protest at the authorities’ refusal to act to prevent attacks on black people and abolitionists in segregated railway carriages (including highly publicised incidents involving Charles Lenox Remond and David Ruggles) The Morning Star printed a call for readers to boycott the Eastern Railroad – a remarkable step at that time.
As the public mood became more receptive to the abolitionist message, the circulation figures picked up. While continuing to fulfil its original function as official organ of the Free Will Baptist denomination, The Morning Star continued its vociferous anti-slavery campaign right up to the end of the Civil War, condemning the iniquities of slavery with eloquent and rousing rhetoric.
xi. Eunice Jewell b. 1793 in Vinalhaven, Knox, Maine; d. 16 Apr 1820 in Limington, York, Maine; m. 10 Nov 1814 – Limerick, York, Maine to Deacon Parmenio Libby (b. 22 Nov 1791 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine – d. 14 Oct 1875 in Limington, York, Maine) Parmenio’s brother Elias married Eunice’s sister Jane. Their parents were Abner Libby (1766 – 1843) and Anna Harding (1767 – 1857) Eunice and Parmenio had three children Rosetta Thompson (b. 1815) and Anna Harding (b. 1817) and Eunice Jewell (b. 1819).
After Eunice died, Parmenio married 4 Nov 1822 Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine to Fanny Ward(b. 1800 in Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine – d. 12 Sep 1829) and had three more children. Parmenio married a third time 23 Oct 1831 Limington, York, Maine Eliza Larrabee (b. Jul 1808 in Limington, York, Maine – d. 1861 Limerick, Maine) and had nine more children between 1831 and 1851.
In the War of 1812, Parmenio served ion Capt. E. Small’s Company, Col. Merrill’s 4th Regiment, under Supervision of General Goodwin.From Sept. 20 to Oct. 17, 1814. Service on seacoast at Kennebunk. Limington Light Artillery Company.
Parmenio Libby (1791 – 1875)
In the 1850 census, Parmenia and Eliza were living in Limington, York, Maine with 10 children ages 2 to 23.
xii. Samuel B Jewell b. 1794 in Vinalhaven, Hancock, Maine; d. 12 Aug 1889 in China, Kennebec, Maine; m. Abigail Palmer (b. 1796 – d. 1869 in Kennebec, Maine) Abigail’s parents were Simon Palmer (1769 – 1841) and Phoebe Barnes (1777 – ) Samuel and Abigail had four children born between 1816 and 1837.
In the 1850 census, Samuel and Abigail were farming in China, Kennebec, Maine with four children ages 13 to 34.
http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=30737081
Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume 4 By Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs 1909
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Peters of New England: a genealogy, and family history By Eleanor Bradley Peters
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Eileen Jewell says:
You’ve left out the first Thomas Jewell who arrived in the colonies in 1635 aboard the ship called The Planter. I have a copy of the ship passenger list which includes the actual dates he left and arrived from London. He was a twenty seven year old Miller signed out of Kingston Surrey England. His destination was Brantrey which was later Braintree and later still became Quincy. A mill had already been built there and owned by another millwright. Thomas was allowed to purchase 12 acres of land on Mount Wolleston as 4 acres per person in the family was the quota of land at that time. From that, he was married and had one child.
Thomas and Grizelle fletcher daughter of Robert Fletcher of Concord, Ma had 6 children together.
They were Thomas who married Susannah Guilford; Joseph who married Martha in Watertown. Last name not known. He married secondly, Isabel Cate of Portsmouth. He owned land in Portsmouth and signed it over to Isabel in order to woo her. (Actually stated that in writing). Nathaniel married Mary Smedley daughter of Baptozmo Smedley. He was a soldier during king Philips war. He was also spotted coming out of the woods with an Indian woman who had often been seen visiting the town. This time however, with a new pappoose on her back. He might also have been an Indian parent. The three daughters were: Marcy or Mary who married Joseph Spaulding:Hannah who married John Parish. And, Grissies who married her cousin, Joshua Fletcher, son of Grizelle Fletcher’s brother, William Fletcher. William was a large land owner in What became Chelmsford.
Grissies or little Grizelle and Joshua were caught in an compromising position by the minister she worked for. They were brought before the court in Boston two or three times and eventually fined. Joshua’s father, William paid the fine. He became responsible to raise Grizelle’s youngest children when she died. And he, along with John Burge, Grizelle’s 5th and last husband appeared with Grizelle’s will in front of the Mendon proprietors stating these requests. Joseph was to inherit her land. Thomas 2 must have already inherited from his fathers estate which was sold to the Adams family.
An 1800’s genealogist, referred to Grizelle Gurney as the Most married woman in the Colonies?” Some have said, she was perhaps a black widow. Well, in those days, if someone didn’t re marry after ones spouse died, the other colony members became suspicious of them. A woman rIsing 7 young children alone was not looked on very well. And, who would want to marry a black widow with 7 children? It’s very likely that she was both beautiful and rich.
After Grizelle died, the family went off in different directions. She was apparently the glue that held the family together. Nathaniel and Marcy moved their families to Plainfield, Ct whew a new Plantation was formed. Joseph sold his land and his mothers land in Mendon while he was living up in Portsmouth. He bought a mill in Sudbury and moved his new family to Sudbury and Stow.
After Thomas Jewell died in 1654. Grizelle married Humphrey Griggs. Humphrey agreed to support the Jewell children but met his own demise. Grizelle married Henry Kibby (also kidby). With Henry, Grizelle had her 7 th child, Sherebiah Kibby. The Kibbys were sawyer sand that is likely where Thomas2 learned the trade. After Henry Kibby died, Grizelle married John Gurney. As Grizelle Gurney, she petitioned land for herself and her son Thomas in Mendon.
In Mendon, Grizelle, Thomas, Joseph and Mercy and Joseph Spaulding owned their own homes there. After building their own homes, cleared their lands and grew their crops, the family was to help build a church and a home for the minister. Thomas was fined for not providing clapboards on time. Joseph helped to dig out the cellar joke for the ministers house. Then, the Nipmuck Indians attacked and killed 5 people working in the fields that day. It was the first attack on the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A previous attack was made against the Plymouth Colony.
Mendon families left their new town and headed back to Hingham and Weymouth and Other larger cities and the Indiand burned the houses and other buildings in Mendon.
Grisliest and Joshua had 2 sons before she died. Joshua remarried and had more children. Today their descendants listed in Westford Vital Records to 1892 is several pages long.
Thomas2 and Susannah Guilford moved their family to Western Salisbury in 1687 along with 30 other families from Hingham and Weymouth. He purchased 719 acres of land there north of Wichers(aka: Whittiers Hill. His home was built near the Pow Wow River. He had a saw mill and a grist mill. That part of the town today is known as Jewell Town the Historic District of South Hampton N. H.
Susannah Guilford’s parents John Guilford and Mary Norton died. Her grandmother who also lived in Hingham had been married twice. She was Ann Smith born in 1595. She was the wife of William Norton of Ipswich and Hingham,and after he died, she married John Tucker of Hingham, June 11, 1649. Ann left a wil recorded in Boston, leaving an inheritance to her grandson, Paul Guilford and to her granddaughter, Susannah Jewell.
Thomas2 sold his home in what eventually became South Hampton, N. H., to his son, John, he moved first to Dunstable. He and Susannah signed a deed of land they still owned near the waterfront in Hingham to their grandson, Benoni. Benoni was the son of Thomas 3. Thomas 3 is called 5 in the Jewell Register on page 5. His wife was Martha Blood.
Benoni had sons who served in the Rev. War. James Jewell made the early newspaper because he and a friend had escaped the British jail that held them for destroying a cashe of arms. They escaped before the British had a chance to put a notch in their ears to Mark them as traitors.
Note: the early documents where the Jewell name was recorded shows the name Jewell but the L’s are loops that were crossed into t’s. So many of the Early Jewell’s were recorded as Jewett’s.
A Joseph Jewett of Ipswich married Ann Allen in Boston. She had lived in Hingham and entered in the records as sometimes wife of Bozoan Allen. Well, his marriage record to Ann has his name as Jewell not Jewett.
Joseph Jewell lived with his first wife, Martha, in Charlestown. He and his son John kept the ferry going between Charlestown and Boston. His son John’s first wife Elizabeth is buried in the oldest cemetery in Malden, Ma. The cemetery name is Bell Rock.
You’ve included my write up about Enos Jewell being in Ogden, Monroe Co. N. Y. I have a copy of his will. There are many cemeteries in the town. However, a man, whose name I won’t mention purchased the land in the 50’s that the Pioneer’s were buried in. He removed all of the headstones except one tall one, which was moved to the rear corner of the lot. Then, he leveled the land and put hot top on it and built a store. So, I’m afraid our Rev. War Soldier Enos Jewell and Abigail Chamberlin Jewell and Mary Jewell are alli perhaps buried under the hot top.
The first Henry Lancaster lived at Bloddy Point in N. H. He was a young boy when he arrived here and it was thought he did not come here under his own free will. It is believed he was dispossessed of his inheritance by others in the family. He lived to be over 100 years old.
Sarah Gould Jewell Huntington had two sons by Timothy Huntington. They were Benjamin and John. See pg. 49 in the “Huntington Genealogy.” Sadly, after Henry Lancaster Jewell died, his farm in Bow, N.H. Had to be sold. The money he owed was more than his property was valued for. Sarah moved back to be with her family in Amesbury. The towns people told the constable to warn her and her 3 sons out of town. He wrote up and gave all three boys under 7 years old warnings out of town. His mother got one too. So, it was more than pay back for Sarah to marry into one of or possibly the most prominent families in the town. My copy of the “Huntington Genealogy” was previously owned by Zena Young of Brigham Young’s family.
There were several other Jewell’s around. Besides Thomas, there was a John and Joseph early. There was a George on Jewell Island off the coast of Maine. Many of his family survived near Saco. He had a son William. A Mark Jewell came to Dover about 100 years after Thomas. Bradbury, Mark and John descend from him. Two of his sons married two daughters of Rev. Jacob Jewell in Sandwich N. H. Jacob and Martha Quimby Jewell are buried in Sugar Hill Cemetery in Weare, N. H.
This should help fill in some of the holes and a few corrections in your lovely write-up about our Jewell family.
Regards, Eileen Jewell
Deb Mansfield says:
Hello Eilenn,
Interesting details about the Jewells. I am searching for information about Rev. Jacob Jewell and his wife Martha Quimby Jewell. Yours is the first mention with specific information that I have found about their deaths/burials. I wonder whether you would be willing to share your source for their burial in Sugar Hill Cemetery in Weare, N.H.?
Deb Mansfield
Laura Letellier says:
Love the picture of Parmenio Libby. Where did that come from?
I probably got it from an ancestry.com posting. My subscription is now inactive, so sorry, I can’t check
Clara L Smith says:
I wish to thank everyone that has worked on this site. Thank You..
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Comparative Drama
The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones: The European Context by John Peacock (review)
Alan R. Young
10.1353/cdr.1997.0018
466 Comparative Drama Harrison's knowledge of the secondary literature on economics and society in French classical theater is comprehensive, and she also cites the most important titles on economics and literary theory. Her approach to the economic side of her topic, however, might have been enriched by reference to work in the "New Economic Criticism," applied to literatures other than French, such as Jean-Christophe Agnew's Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 15501750 . Moreover, since Harrison's project is more about social status than economics, she might have dwelt less on the way money and language are both symbolic systems and instead included a discussion of seventeenth-century views on what constitutes true nobility in order to fill out her treatment of the various grounds for social stratification. Though presented modestly, Pistoles/Paroles is an ambitious study, covering a wide range of complex topics. Harrison has presented her material very thoroughly, and she lays out her arguments clearly. Some readers may feel certain surveys of background information could have been abbreviated, especially for an audience of specialists on seventeenth -century France, but readers from other fields will find such overviews helpful. AU readers will enjoy and appreciate Harrison's work with the text when she examines various kinds of exchange and expenditure in the plays. This is a promising first book that makes a valuable contribution to the developing body of work on economics and ideology in literary texts. BRADLEY RUBIDGE New York University John Peacock. The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones: The European Context . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxii + 387. $145.00. In his handsomely-produced, lavishly-illustrated, and learned work John Peacock offers the first full-length study of Inigo Jones as stage designer, this last a term conveniently appropriated to refer to Jones's work for the Stuart masques and other related court entertainments between 1605 and 1640. Central to Peacock's task is the development of the argument that Jones's designs played a crucial part in transferring to Britain a knowledge, understanding, and ultimately employment of the visual language of European art, in particular that of the Italian Renaissance with which Jones became intimately familiar. Jones was, so Peacock tells us, "the first English artist to acquire a deep and inward knowledge of the whole Renaissance tradition," and, when Jones came upon the scene, "English art was still in outer darkness" (7). Peacock's insistence upon the centrality of the masques in the process of bringing the Italian Renaissance to Britain ("The affective power of the masque Reviews467 was to instil a whole unknown history of art" [13]) and his insistence upon the pre-eminence of Jones in the transformation of British artistic vision are rather startling claims that some readers will no doubt want to question or qualify. However, the evidence Peacock offers and the exploration ofJones's work that he conducts provide an invaluable study that will inevitably result in renewed thinking about Jones and, even more, renewed debate about the vexed and complex questions concerning the transmission of European artistic tradition to Britain in the first half of the seventeenth century. After a brief introductory discussion of the principal features of the Stuart masque, Peacock begins his study with a weighty chapter on "The Theory and Practice of Imitation." Taking his cue from an inscription that Edmund Bolton wrote in a book of poems he gave to Jones in 1606, Peacock argues that the court masque provided Jones with an "obvious vehicle for reviving the ancient art, or arts, of theatrical representation . . . , which combined several arts in a single art of 'Mimesis'" (11). Viewed in a certain light, "all aspects of the arts of Jones's theatre could be seen as antiquity revived" (11). Because "all his stage designs are copied" (12), Peacock argues, Jones was able to carry out the mission first outlined by Bolton—the transference of the arts of Italy across the Alps and into England. But, according to Peacock, Jones was also a reformer, actively mediating Renaissance traditions and revising them whenever he saw fit. That Jones's "copying" was not a sign of any "declining originality of vision...
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Do You Know the Celebrities Behind These 50 Famous Quotes?
Nicole Johnson Published: December 4, 2020
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In the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society, John Keating, played by Robin Williams, addressed a class of young men at the prep school where he's teaching. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world,” he said.
The power that words hold is undeniable, and when they come from some of the most influential celebrities in the world, the impact can be astounding. Whether they are discussing mediocrity, fame, or good and evil, what they say makes its way into the mainstream.
Stacker compiled a list of 50 famous quotes from filmmakers, writers, musicians, actors and other celebrities using both entertainment and news sources, including Rolling Stone, Essence and Newsweek.
These quotes span across decades and mediums to the farthest reaches of the globe. The list includes a diverse crop of people. One television writer addresses a graduating class from her prestigious alma mater. A poet explores the grief she feels at the loss of her longtime partner. A director discusses gender and her work. There is a physicist, several billionaires, Pulitzer Prize winners, fashion designers and an artist dispensing words of wisdom about every topic from aging to the difficulties of balancing work and motherhood. No subject is off limits when it comes to their thoughts and opinions.
Sage, sassy, hysterical and raw—these celebrity quotes inspire and comfort. They make readers sigh, laugh, and squirm. They appear in commencement speeches, interviews, autobiographies, and memoirs.
Famous Celebrity Quotes
Source: Do You Know the Celebrities Behind These 50 Famous Quotes?
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Some Surprises at the T3 Gadget Awards
by Mohawk Computers | Oct 26, 2011 | IT Services
In a world where technological advances appear everyday in news-feeds and broadcasts, the annual T3 Gadget Awards is a microcosm of all of these advances in one location. Like the Oscars for Technology, the T3 Gadget Awards nominate the most cutting-edge gadgets out today. With past releases like the iPad 2, Microsoft’s Kinect and huge advances in gaming, it’s worth a quick note to show some of the most important revelations which have taken place in 2011. Over 960,000 votes, along with the final tabulations of a 6 person expert panel, decided the winners. Here are just a few of the more interesting revelations, as well as some interesting–if not ironic–choices for winners.
Ironic Winners
As gadgetry encompasses many arenas, so must the T3 categories. This means that categories like Best Retailer and Gadget Personality of the Year are included. The latter had one of the most ironic choices for winner: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. Although one cannot argue his importance in the world of communication, he’s never been known for his George Clooney-esque charisma. Then there’s the category of Best Commuting Device. Here, pitted against automobiles and electric bicycles, the winner was the Amazon Kindle. True, it will help pass the time while traveling, but it does make a perplexing choice for Commuting Device of the Year.
Influential Winners
Another interesting revelation can be found in the voters’ decision that Twitter is the “Digital Media Service of the Year.” Sure, Zuckerberg’s got the Personality, but Twitter won the bigger battle. To be sure, the principals of large corporations like Apple, Google and Facebook are probably not crying themselves to sleep because they didn’t win a Gadget gong. It is notable, however, that more votes were generated for Twitter than any other medium by the tech community themselves. Those in-the-know with lots of sway ought to be taken very seriously by the tech giants. Basically, Facebook can’t rest on its laurels (just look at MySpace for reference).
Surprising Winners
For many, the iPhone 4 would probably be guessed as the runaway winner of the Phone of the Year award. Instead–and more importantly–because more serious tech fans cast the votes, Samsung’s Galaxy S II walked away with the award. In the Tech Brand of the Year category, Google was the big winner, beating out rivals Facebook and Apple. Again, it’s “just the T3 Gadget Awards”, but as always, it’s better to be the winner than the runner-up. And when millions of dollars rides on person to person advertising and brand recognition, every tiny bit helps.
In the final analysis, the 2011 T3 Gadget Awards provided some fascinating insight into where technology is headed. Some of the winners were surprising, with Samsung taking a number of Awards, showing that it’s not just the Giants in the industry making all the waves. Please take some time to check out the complete list of Awards, categories and nominees. You can even go back to 2008; the first year votes were cast, and see how much technology has changed, who the winners were in the past and whether or not they’re still relevant today.
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The Unlikely Catalyst
Sam “Bam” Cunningham. (Photo courtesy of USC Athletics)
On a hot and humid Saturday night in Birmingham, Alabama, Sam Cunningham stood patiently on the sideline of Legion Field waiting for his number to be called. The fullback from the University of Southern California was about to make history in a game that would later be credited with changing the course of college football forever. Sometimes history is made almost entirely in secret to its participants. Sometimes fate calls on one man who is simply in the right place at the right time. That Saturday, fate tapped on Sam Cunningham’s broad shoulders, and the sophomore fullback from USC did not feel a thing.
“I knew that if I didn’t play well, I wouldn’t be playing again,” Cunningham recalls with a laugh nearly 45 years later. “So that pretty much trumped everything.”
He is sitting in a faded red seat across from the Coliseum peristyle, reaching back into the depths of his memory to describe the night that changed the course of his life.
The story of the 1970 USC-Alabama game has become well-documented legend. Bear Bryant’s all-white Alabama Crimson Tide hosted the Trojans in the opening game of the season, a showdown of two of the best and yet two of the most different teams of the previous decade. USC featured a black starting quarterback, fullback and tailback along with a host of other African-American players, and would be the first fully integrated team to play in the state of Alabama. The outcome would change everything about SEC football in the years to come.
Sam Cunningham was somewhat of an unlikely hero to play a shaping role in integrating college football in the South. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, he grew up far removed from the events of the Civil Rights Movement. When he was four, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Cunningham was busy running around his neighborhood playing any game with any ball on which he could get his growing hands. When he was five, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery. Cunningham was starting school at Franklin Elementary, in class with children of Hispanic, African, Asian and European descent alike.
Sam “Bam” Cunningham at the LA Memorial Coliseum. (Photo courtesy of USC Athletics)
“I saw the images on television and I knew there were issues, but where I grew up those issues were not there,” he explains. “That’s not to say that we didn’t have issues, but nothing like the South. We weren’t getting chased by dogs or sprayed with water hoses or fearing for our lives when we went to church. We were able to just live and be kids and enjoy ourselves.”
When it came time to go to college, Cunningham found a school with a storied football tradition just like Santa Barbara High. He was 19 on his first day of class, and while he was focused on adjusting to college football and college coursework, the concerns of the rest of the country were a bit more severe. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated just one year prior, and the South was still entrenched in racial dissension.
Sam “Bam” Cunningham. (Photo Courtesy of USC Atheltics)
But while segregation was still the norm in Alabama, life in Southern California was vastly different. For many years, players of different races had been lining up alongside each other at USC, and African-American players at USC didn’t feel the sting of racism as sharply as their counterparts in the South. As the Trojans prepared to face Alabama in Cunningham’s sophomore year, the concept that integration in football was controversial for some people was a new one.
“That game was my first time having to think about that issue in football,” explains Cunningham.
“To me, I always saw it as you get dressed, you go out here and you try and beat whoever is on the other side of that line.”
Cunningham certainly didn’t intend on stirring up any controversy on his first collegiate road trip, but from the start, nothing was normal about the Alabama game. Upon their arrival, the Trojans were greeted at the airport by an excited welcoming party, including a band, cheerleaders and a crowd of people curious to see the Crimson Tide’s guests.
“We got a police escort through a part of the town that was lower income and had more blacks,” Cunningham recounts. “They all came outside to wave at our bus. They couldn’t see us, but I think they knew we were that team from California with black players.
“After that trip, I thought all the away games were going to be like that,” he says laughing. “They weren’t. That one was pretty unique.”
Cunningham had little basis for comparison, as that Saturday’s game against Alabama was to be his first ever as a Trojan. In that time, freshmen couldn’t play on the varsity squad, which meant the sophomore fullback spent most of the minutes, days and weeks leading up to the game wondering if he’d even get a chance to play.
“I was nervous,” he says with his eyes lost deep in memory. “It was hot, humid and on artificial turf, so there were a lot of firsts. I didn’t have any dreams about carrying the ball or scoring touchdowns.
“I just wanted to play well if I got a chance to play at all.”
Cunningham started on special teams that night, so he took the field for the opening kickoff in front of thousands of white, screaming Alabama fans and awaited the whistle. What followed in the ensuing 60 minutes was far beyond what any of those fans, and Cunningham himself, expected.
Sam Cunningham carries the ball against the Alabama Crimson Tide. (Photo courtesy of USC Athletics.
“I wasn’t a starter on offense, but after several plays I got an opportunity to get in,” the now 64-year-old explains. “What was even more unbelievable is I got the opportunity to carry the ball. Fullbacks in that era did not carry the ball. I can’t tell you what was on the coaches’ minds that day, but I can tell you that I didn’t carry the ball very much the rest of that season.”
No, in fact, Sam ‘Bam’ Cunningham, the lightning bolt of the 1970 USC-Alabama showdown, would only carry the ball for 488 total yards in the entirety of the 1970 season. His two touchdowns in the victory accounted for nearly half of his rushing touchdowns for the year.
“They weren’t that silent on my first touchdown – it was only seven points – but after awhile it got pretty quiet in there,” Cunningham remembers with a smile. “We were bigger, faster, quicker and I’d have to say probably stronger too. We proved that that evening.”
Whatever the USC coaching staff saw against Alabama to prompt them to play Cunningham like they did enabled the Trojans to take the lead and never look back. The sophomore fullback would finish the game with 135 yards and two touchdowns on just 12 carries. The Trojans decimated the Crimson Tide, before pulling their starters in the third quarter, and won the game 42-21.
“When you watch a football game from start to finish you have a pretty good idea which is the better team,” says Cunningham thoughtfully. “That’s what happened that night in Birmingham. They saw the truth.”
“Athletics has a way of showing you the truth…If you’re paying attention”
Despite what urban legend claims, Cunningham was not grandly introduced to the Alabama locker room after the game, but he did receive a polite and earnest congratulations from one of the winningest coaches in college football history. Bear Bryant met Cunningham, Jimmy Jones and Clarence Davis, USC’s all-black backfield, outside the locker room to compliment each on a game well-played, and the team set off back home to California.
The Trojans would finish the 1970 season 6-4-1, not an especially remarkable campaign for a team that started the year with such a resounding victory.
At this point in the story-telling Cunningham pauses.
“Not many people realize this, but as great as that 1970 team was because of what we did in that first game, we had our own racial issue on that team. That’s why we ended up being 6-4-1,” he says. An honest reminder that change – even on a team heralded as progressive and pioneering – doesn’t happen overnight. “We get to raise the banner for changing college football history, but we still had a fight amongst ourselves about black-white. We still had some issues that we had to work out.”
Cunningham would go on to win a national championship as a senior captain at USC in 1972. He was drafted in the first round (11th pick) of the 1973 NFL Draft by the Patriots and played for New England from 1973-79 and 1981-82. His legacy however, has mostly lived on in the change he and his teammates catalyzed in 1970.
In the 45 years since, the pendulum has swung emphatically to the other side. This fall, when the Crimson Tide played Auburn, 20 of the team’s 22 starters were African-American, something unthinkable to most Tide fans on the Saturday night that the Trojans came to town.
It wasn’t until many years later, after discussions with former teammates and Trojan fans, that Cunningham fully understood the implications of that game. For him, it’s a story and a triumph that belongs to the entire Trojan Family.
“Yeah, I played in the game and all the other guys on that team, but we played for the University of Southern California so the history belongs to this university and this athletic program.”
“It ain’t just me or them or even our team. It’s all of us. It’s a part of our history and our legacy. And it’s something to be proud of forever and ever.”
Randall Cunningham Jr. and Sam “Bam” Cunningham at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. (Photo courtesy of USC Athletics)
Just a few yards away from Cunningham, listening quietly, sits his nephew, Randall Cunningham Jr. The younger Cunningham is a freshman at USC this year, just starting his first season of collegiate track and field as a high jumper and hoping to play football soon as well. As the next generation of Cunningham embarks on his journey as a Trojan, his uncle is proud to have his legacy to share.
“That game is a part of Randall’s legacy too. At the end of the day he can smile and know his family was a part of something very, very special. And we were a part of that because we are a part of this. A part of USC.”
In large part what Sam Cunningham did on Saturday, September 12, 1970 was made possible by those who came before him, Brice Taylor and C.R. Roberts and Willie Wood and countless others. As the former fullback sits in the Coliseum and thinks about his career and those other Trojans who played on the same hallowed ground, he sees his story as a small piece of something much bigger than himself.
“It was going to happen whether it was us or somebody else,” Cunningham says with the shake of his head. “But for us to be that team, for us to be an important part of history that evening, that’s something I’m proud of. I didn’t know. I was just there to play football, to play as hard as I could and hoping my teammates were doing the same.”
“I didn’t’ know what that day meant at the time but looking back, it was something very special.”
Sam “Bam” Cunningham at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. (Photo courtesy of USC Athletics)
By Sam Bergstrom
>Read the original story on the USC Black History Month website.
>Read additional My USC stories here.
After life-changing injury, USC student uses sports to heal and thrive
USC announces first chief inclusion and diversity officer
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Don’t call me a “woman lawyer”
By Anonymous • June 11, 2007 •Sexism, Sexual Harassment, and Other Forms of Discrimination
In 1848, Charlotte Bronte wrote in a letter to William Smith: "I am neither a man nor a woman but an author." She was quick to defy gender classifications as she sought to be judged equally and apart from her male colleagues. While she spoke defiantly about gender in her letter, she would publish literature under men's names for over fifteen years, veiling her identity for fear that the "mode of writing and thinking was not what is called 'feminine'" and aware that "authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice." She sought to transcend the prism of gender,…
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By Anonymous • June 11, 2007 •Mentoring and Networking
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My first year of law school has taught me there is no law. At least, there is no law that is not first experienced by and filtered through the participants to a case or a suit. Each complaint tells a story of men and women who have suffered. Sometimes they lose money, other times rights, and in the worst of cases, the victims lose their dignity and lives. Women experience "The Law" much differently than the men who construct it, and their stories must be told.I study public international law. It is not sexy. The worst crimes are still being…
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Why Human Rights Took A Backseat In Trump's Trip To India
March 22, 2020 Topic: Security Region: Asia Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: IndiaDonald TrumpForeign PolicyNarendra ModiHuman Rights
It could be a problem.
by Sumit Ganguly
Key point: Trump cares more about trade than democracy or human rights.
President Donald Trump kicked off his first official visit to India by addressing a rally of more than 100,000 people on Feb. 24 in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat.
Trump promised the thousands of cheering Indians who greeted him “an incredible trade deal” and “the most feared military equipment on the planet.”
Accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, he then toured Sabarmati ashram, where Mahatma Gandhi lived for 13 years. Afterwards, Trump visited the Taj Mahal, a 17th-century mausoleum built by an Indian emperor for his beloved wife.
Trump and Modi have built a personal rapport. The U.S. president’s 36-hour visit to India – named “Namaste Trump” – is seen as India returning the favor for “Howdy Modi” – a rally in Texas in fall 2019, where the two leaders appeared together.
A few news reports had suggested that Modi and Trump could discuss rising violence and discrimination against religious minorities in India. However, media reports noted that President Trump later defended Prime Minister Modi on religious freedom in India, even as riots broke out in New Delhi, leaving at least 10 people dead.
I am a scholar who studies U.S. foreign policy toward India. In the past, U.S. administrations concerned with boosting trade with India have celebrated the two countries’ shared commitment to democracy and human rights. Under the Trump administration, I argue, the relationship is in danger of becoming purely transactional.
Departing from the past
Over the past several decades, American presidents, regardless of political affiliation, have reaffirmed the shared values that have bound the two states.
Despite the ebbs and flows in the India-U.S. relationship, both sides have long seen democracy as an important link.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter visited India shortly after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi lost an election. Gandhi had declared a state of emergency in India, ruthlessly curtailing civil rights and personal liberties. Carter opposed providing U.S. nuclear fuel to India because India had conducted a nuclear test in 1974, arguing that it had violated the spirit of a prior agreement.
Nevertheless Carter went out of his way to laud India for its ability to restore democratic practices, following the state of emergency. Several decades later, a president of a wholly different ideological leaning, George W. Bush, adopted a markedly similar stance when hosting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a state visit in Washington.
When introducing his visitor to his wife Laura Bush, the U.S. president famously celebrated the absence of religious extremism in India, calling it “a democracy which does not have a single al-Qaeda member in a population of 150 million Muslims.”
Bush went on to attribute the absence of Islamic extremism in India to its commitment to democracy.
By the time of the first George W. Bush administration, the Indo-U.S. bilateral relationship had opened up a significant market for American goods.
A big reason for this growing trade relationship was a shift in India’s U.S. foreign policy. Even as trade grew, the U.S. presidents have not shied away from criticizing India.
After President Barack Obama’s second visit to India in 2015, he criticized India’s failure to uphold human rights during Prime Minister Modi’s first term in office.
“Every person has the right to practice his religion or not to practice it if they choose so without persecution,” Obama stated in a speech in Mumbai shortly before his departure from India on Jan. 27, 2015.
A transactional relationship?
Trump’s visit diverges from this past of U.S. presidents alternately celebrating and critiquing democracy in India. Trump seems to be focused on material issues – primarily India’s increasing spending on U.S. military supplies.
In recent years, defense and military sales relationship with India have been burgeoning, growing some 557% between 2013 and 2017 over the previous five-year period and now reaching almost US$20 billion. In early February of this year India announced it would purchase $2.4 billion in Sikorsky naval helicopters from the U.S.
These military acquisitions, in considerable part, stem from India’s growing apprehensions about China. These fears stem from China’s military capabilities arrayed along much of India’s Himalayan border and the failure to resolve a border dispute.
Indeed Trump has adopted a hard line stance toward India when it comes to business transactions. On the eve of his departure to New Delhi, Trump ended India’s preferential trade status as a developing country. The move could impose as much as $260 million in new duties and is meant to induce India to open up its markets to a range of American manufactured and agricultural products.
A requiem for human rights?
Missing from Trump’s visit is any allusion whatsoever to recent disturbing political developments in India.
In early August 2019, India ended the special status of the portion of the state of Kashmir, under India’s control. It also placed a number of prominent politicians under house arrest, blocked telephone and internet services and dramatically bolstered its military presence in the region.
In December 2019, India passed the Citizenship Amendment Act, a law that allows the immigration of a range of minorities to India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan but bars Muslim migrants. Protests that erupted across the country in opposition to the new law have been brutally repressed by police.
India is also drafting a National Register of Citizens, an effort to document all voting-age Indians that could in effect disenfranchise millions of poor minorities because of their inability to produce appropriate papers.
All of these policy initiatives have been undertaken since Prime Minister Modi was re-elected in April 2019. Several members of U.S. Congress, most notably U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Seattle, have been outspoken about India’s human rights challenges. But Trump has stayed silent – and he seems unlikely to break that silence on his first-ever official visit to India.
As I see it, Trump’s message is clear: As long as India opens up its markets to American products, and is willing to make common cause with the United States on some foreign policy issues, the shared commitment to democratic values and civil rights of minorities can be set aside.
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Sumit Ganguly, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Report: Gordon Hayward’s ankle still “purpleish” at All-Star break
By danecarbaughMar 1, 2018, 10:30 PM EST
Boston Celtics forward Gordon Hayward has been up and walking around, even shooting according to recent reports. But there’s still some significant hesitancy when it comes to Hayward seeing an NBA floor this season, despite the fact that Hayward has said he wants to return this year.
The original prognosis for Boston’s big free agent signing — a missed season — seems more likely at this point, especially after the latest report from Yahoo! Sports’ Chris Mannix.
According to Mannix, who say Hayward walking around during the 2018 NBA All-Star Weekend, the Celtics star’s ankle is still “purpleish”.
Via Yahoo! Sports:
Also: Don’t count on Gordon Hayward coming back this season, either. Stevens has been unequivocal when asked about Hayward (“I’ve said all year, not coming back,” Stevens said) and now the calendar is working against him. I saw Hayward before the All-Star break. He’s walking fine, but his ankle was still swollen and still purpleish, which makes it impossible to believe he will be ready to play before mid-April.
Obviously we have to wait until there’s some kind of update on Hayward’s timeline, although at this point with the Celtics just half a game behind the Toronto Raptors for first place in the Eastern Conference it’s unlikely Brad Stevens & Co. give away any information that could help playoff opponents prepare for them.
It was one of the most awful ways to start an NBA season in recent memory, and the injuries have kept piling up for major stars. There will be quite a few Celtics fans debating whether Hayward should return to bolster their playoff run or rest as a means to guard against unfamiliarity and re-injury. It will be difficult for Boston to make that decision if the time comes this spring.
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National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) – a joint venture company of Govt of India and States of Delhi,Haryana, Rajasthan and U.P, under the administrative control of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, is mandated for implementing the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) project across the NCR of India, ensuring a balanced and sustainable urban development through better connectivity and access.
he idea of an integrated commuter railway network to connect the National Capital Region and Delhi was mooted way back in 1998-99 in an Indian Railways commissioned study. The study had identified the possibility of an RRTS network that would provide such a connectivity using fast commuter trains. The proposal was re-examined in 2006 in the light of extension of the Delhi Metro to some of the NCR towns. The idea was subsequently taken up and owned by the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) while developing its “Functional Plan on Transport for NCR-2032”.
The NCRPB identified and recommended eight RRTS corridors to connect the towns in NCR with high speed rail based commuter transit services. The erstwhile Planning Commission subsequently formed a Task Force (2006) under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) on RRTS for NCR. The Task Force in 2009 proposed to set up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) with an initial corpus of Rs. 100 crore for implementing a wide-ranging integrated multi-modal transport system for suburban commuters that would lead to a balanced and sustainable growth across the region. Thus was formed the idea of NCRTC that would be the nodal agency for implementing this multi-modal transport system for the NCR.
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The NCRTC is a joint partnership institution between the Central Government and the participating states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and the NCT of Delhi. Agreeing to this partnership, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between participating stakeholders was signed on 29th June, 2011 and an equity share in NCRTC was agreed upon for setting up an initial seed capital of Rs. 100 crore.
The contributions for this equity share from the stakeholders were received by 1st August, 2013 along with the signing of the Memorandum of Association (MoA) and Association of Agreement (AoA) of NCRTC.
NCRTC was formally incorporated on 21st August, 2013 as a Company under the Company Act, 1956. As a joint partnership project between the Center and the States, NCRTC would have one nominated Director each from the participating States, and four nominee Directors from the Government of India. The Secretary (UD) is the ex-officio Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Managing Director, a nominee of MoUD. NCRTC also has the flexibility of forming separate subsidiary companies for implementing specific projects.
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Bike-share station opens on Indiana Tech campus
By The Journal Gazette
A sixth Fort Wayne bike share station opened today on the campus of Indiana Tech.
The station, on the north side of Andorfer Commons at the corner of East Washington Boulevard and Schick Street, will allow students and the public to check out a bike 24 hours a day, the city of Fort Wayne said in a statement.
Anyone can use the bike share station by purchasing a day pass or a $15 monthly or $60 annual membership, the statement said. Rides for members are free for the first hour, then $3 per hour after.
"Students now have a convenient way to travel downtown and beyond, and to make use of our wonderful trail system, from a bike station located in the heart of campus," said Dr. Arthur Snyder, Indiana Tech president, in the statement. "And community members now have one more method for getting to our campus for athletic events, meetings, events in our theaters and art gallery, and more."
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AG issues directive enforcing ‘Extreme Risk’ gun safety law
By: Anthony Vecchione
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal on Aug. 15 issued the nation’s first statewide directive to law enforcement implementing an “extreme risk” gun safety law.
The directive, which applies to all 36,000 law enforcement officers in New Jersey, will make it easier for police to keep firearms away from individuals who present a significant danger to themselves or others.
Attorney General Directive 2019-2 – known as the “Extreme Risk Directive”– guides and directs the state’s law enforcement agencies on the proper implementation of the Extreme Risk Protective Order (ERPO) Act of 2018, which takes effect on Sept. 1.
According to Grewal’s office, the new law creates a process through which a family or household member, or a law enforcement officer, may apply for an order against a person who presents a significant danger of bodily injury to himself or others by possessing or purchasing a firearm. Issuance of such an order prohibits that individual from possessing or purchasing a firearm or ammunition and from holding any firearms identification cards or permits.
“New Jersey is leading the way in taking commonsense action to protect our residents and law enforcement officers from the daily scourge of gun violence,” Grewal said in a statement. “But our laws are only as powerful as our willingness to use them. That’s why I am issuing the first-ever statewide directive to help our law enforcement officers understand their authority and their obligation to protect families from gun violence in moments of crisis. This Directive gives every law enforcement officer in this state the tools and knowledge they need to intervene before it’s too late,” Grewal said.
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal- OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL / TIM LARSEN
“Any family that has experienced the type of crisis this directive addresses will understand immediately how these protective orders can be life savers, as will any police officer who has responded to emergency calls involving persons who pose a danger to themselves or others because they are mentally or emotionally unstable,” said Veronica Allende, director of the Division of Criminal Justice.
“We are training prosecutors and officers throughout New Jersey this month to ensure that they are prepared to make effective use of these orders and inform the public about them,” Allende said.
“In the past, many in law enforcement have experienced the frustration caused by not having procedures in place that allow an officer to initiate a streamlined process for removing a firearm from an individual who poses a threat to themselves or the public,” said Colonel Patrick Callahan of the New Jersey State Police. “This directive is a much needed and welcomed tool now available to both the police and the public, and it will undoubtedly save lives.”
The Extreme Risk Directive instructs law enforcement officers and prosecutors on whether and when to file for an ERPO, how to inform and assist the public on ERPO petitions, and the standards and processes for doing so.
In particular, the directive instructs that law enforcement officers have a duty to educate people on the availability of ERPO petitions, and specifically to inform family and household members at risk of firearm violence of the law and its procedures. The directive also confirms that law enforcement officers must seek an ERPO from a court whenever they have probable cause to believe that a person poses an immediate and present danger of causing bodily injury to themselves or others by having custody or control of, owning, possessing, purchasing or receiving a firearm.
In addition, the Extreme Risk Directive confirms that law enforcement officers have a variety of other tools to intervene in moments of crisis. These can include the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act, the Sexual Assault Survivor Protection Act, a mental-evaluation referral, a civil commitment, or criminal complaints, investigations or charges.
Understanding the importance of training law enforcement officers to enforce the new ERPO Act, the Attorney General’s Office – in partnership with the Administrative Office of the Courts – is conducting 16 training sessions for prosecutors and law enforcement officers on the Act, the directive, and the process to file a petition in every region of the State. Those sessions began on August 6th and will continue through the 26th.
4:14 pm Thu, August 15, 2019 NJBIZ
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Anthony Vecchione covers health care for NJBIZ. You can contact him at: Avecchione@njbiz.com.
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$599K buys this West Riverside multi-family craftsman with an amazing gazebo
The home has a homey, welcoming exterior
By Eric Craig May 23, 2017, 3:40pm CDT
5013-17 Laurel Street.
All photos courtesy of Doug Rodick/Engel & Voelkers New Orleans
Up for sale in Uptown, this circa 1930s double craftsman camelback sits right on Laurel Street. Currently the home houses two month-to-month tenants. The home sits two blocks from Tchoupitoulas Street, and two blocks from Magazine Street. The surrounding neighborhood has a Walk Score of 89.
The asking price is $599,000. At $200 per square foot, the home is priced $66 less than the neighborhood median average of $266.
The units sport a mirror floorplan, with each unit measuring in at three bedrooms, one bathroom and 1,500 square feet. The floor plan allows for a traditional dining and living room. Highlights include original wood flooring on the fist floor of each unit, and 12 foot ceilings throughout the residence.
In respect of the privacy of the tenants, we aren’t allowed to show the interior of the home for this particular listing, but the exterior makes up for that.
At first glance, the home has a spacious, separated sitting porch, both complete with a swinging benches.
On the left side of the home is off-street parking that can accommodate up to three cars, while on the right side is a cozy side garden.
The home has two private backyards at its rear. One unit has a modest courtyard, while the second unit is adorned with a wooden deck and a roomy gazebo.
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Andre Mu is a NOMIS Center Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, US).
Mu was born in Australia, and obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Melbourne in interdisciplinary sciences. There, he was awarded a competitive fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to establish an international collaboration with the University of Calgary. Mu conducted his postdoctoral research at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne. Supported by the prestigious Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship, he collaborated with Professor Rob Knight at UC San Diego to investigate how the trillions of microbes in our gut, known as the gut microbiome, interact with drug-resistant bacterial pathogens.
Mu’s NOMIS research project will address why some patients develop severe illness while others seem to have no symptoms of disease despite the pathogens’ ability to infect, replicate and transmit. Using his expertise as a microbial ecologist and computational biologist, he aims to determine the compositional structure of gut microbiomes before and during infectious diseases in order to identify signature microbiome-markers that may predispose a person to acquiring infections. Such markers could help predict someone’s health outcomes after infection and help scientists engineer the gut microbiome toward cooperative host defense mechanisms during infection. Ultimately, Mu hopes to translate these observations from the bench to invent novel therapeutic applications for human diseases.
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OP-ED | The great resignation: responsive higher education for a changing labor market
By Milton D. Smead Last updated Aug 3, 2021
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REBECCA L. WATTS
As the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic appear to be easing across the country, a promising workforce trend is taking hold. People of virtually all job descriptions, having reassessed and reassessed their preferences and priorities over the past year, are evaluating their job characteristics in a new light. And many – more and more in unprecedented numbers – are seeking change.
In a recent survey of 2,000 workers commissioned by Prudential Financial Inc., a quarter of those polled said they plan to look for new jobs after the pandemic, with many citing issues with work-life balance personal among their main concerns. Half of those polled said they felt the pandemic had given them more control over deciding the direction of their careers.
Dubbed “The Great Resignation,” nearly 4 million people in the United States had already left their jobs in April; this is the highest number for a single month since 2000. And as people are weighing the best way to get from where they are to where they would like to be professionally, they often turn to academic courses for them. help to progress.
Higher education degrees and diplomas can be the path to a better new job, and flexibility in seeking additional qualifications, whether in a new field or to advance in a current career, can be a key element. to achieve its goals.
The economy will require major collaborative efforts aimed at vocational training and workforce development. Innovative approaches to post-secondary education are a key long-term strategy for investing in the workforce and recovering the labor market. These approaches are most effective when they focus on mastering skills, at an affordable cost, with a flexible schedule that allows learners to remain employed while earning a degree.
Competency-based education measures subject skills and knowledge rather than time spent in the classroom. Launched in 1997 by accredited nonprofit Western Governors University (WGU), each student progresses individually for six months at an affordable all-inclusive tuition fee. During the term, students can take as many courses as their schedule allows and as soon as they can prove that they have mastered the subject.
At each of WGU’s four colleges – commerce, health professions, information technology, and education – competency-based degree programs align with workforce imperatives and are highly adaptable, allowing education and industry partners to create and refine high quality learning pathways. This innovative learning model complements Connecticut’s many excellent traditional higher education options, expanding opportunities to fill existing gaps.
WGU is also partnering with local community colleges on credit transfers for their graduates, and with local businesses to support human resource goals and expand access to higher education for their employees. These initiatives support efforts to retain businesses and employees in Connecticut, so both can thrive.
For example, nurses are the largest profession in the nation’s and Connecticut’s health care system. The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce reported in 2019 that Connecticut can expect nearly half of its current workforce to retire in the next 10 to 15 years and warned that the state did not have the number of nurses in the 35-50 age group needed to fill these positions.
Almost 15% of people who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nursing in the United States last year graduated from WGU. These motivated learners include students like Sarah Williams, a 38-year-old working mother of three, for whom WGU was the only realistic option due to her other family and work responsibilities. Stephanie Tomaino, a Masters of Nursing student at WGU, also said her ability to continue her education while working full-time in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Hartford Hospital during the pandemic would have been impossible without the flexibility of the WGU model.
For many of Connecticut’s roughly 800 WGU students and 1,455 alumni, this model is the only way for them to simultaneously graduate from college and continue to advance in their careers without interruption. More than 150 Connecticut students earned WGU degrees last year alone.
Higher education, along with employers, needs to meet people where they are as we all settle into our changed world and our changing workforce. Individuals will carefully analyze their employment prospects and possibilities, making their assessment through a very different lens.
It is clear that the economic recovery, both for families and for communities and states, will be influenced by the choices that are made around kitchen tables as well as in meeting rooms. Connecticut’s outlook may well be determined by how opportunities match new priorities.
Rebecca L. Watts, Ph.D., is Regional Vice President of Western Governors University (WGU), a nonprofit accredited competency-based learning university with nearly 800 students in Connecticut and over 1,450 alumni in the state.
The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author are theirs alone and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions or positions of CTNewsJunkie.com.
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UT researcher discovers first grass carp eggs in Maumee River
October 3, 2017 | News, Research, UToday, Natural Sciences and Mathematics
By Christine Billau
A researcher at The University of Toledo found the first proof of grass carp, a type of invasive Asian carp, spawning in the Maumee River.
Nicole King, aquatic ecology research technician at the UT Lake Erie Center, collected five grass carp eggs in mid-July just downstream of the I-80 bridge, approximately 11.2 river miles from Lake Erie.
Nicole King held a grass carp captured in early spring.
The U.S. Geological Survey used genetic testing to confirm that three of the eggs collected from the Maumee River are from grass carp. The other two eggs have been retained for possible future analysis.
“These fish have been known to be in the Maumee River area and known to ascend the river during high-flow events, so the fact that they spawn there is not surprising,” said Dr. Christine Mayer, UT professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences.
“While this finding does not indicate the number of grass carp in the Maumee River or Lake Erie, it does underscore the continued need to refine the understanding of where grass carp are currently found so that agencies can take on-the-ground actions,” the U.S. Geological Survey released in a statement.
King also is one of the researchers who found more than 7,000 grass carp eggs earlier this year in the Sandusky River, another tributary to Lake Erie.
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Last month King participated in a two-day, multi-agency expedition led by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife targeting grass carp in the Sandusky River to assess the ability and best practices to capture grass carp. Crews collected a total of eight adult grass carp using electrofishing boats, gill nets and fyke nets. The action was in preparation for a large-scale, planned response in 2018.
In 2015 in the Sandusky River, UT graduate student Holly Embke was the first researcher to discover grass carp, a type of invasive Asian carp, spawning in a Great Lakes tributary.
“Grass carp feed on vegetation,” King said. “Wetlands are an important habitat for fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. If these grass carp reach high enough numbers, they could potentially have some serious effects on these wetlands and be dangerous for wetland restoration.”
Although considered a species of Asian carp, wild adult grass carp pose significantly different risks to the Lake Erie ecosystem than bighead carp and silver carp, which are the two invasive Asian carp species of great concern in the Mississippi River basin. Both bighead carp and silver carp consume plankton, and if these species were to make their way into the Great Lakes basin, they would compete for the same source of food that ecologically and economically important native fish species need to survive. Silver carp are well-known for their jumping ability.
Grass carp pose a risk to waterfowl habitat and wetlands, but they do not eat plankton and are unlikely to compete directly with native fish. Grass carp do not jump and are primarily herbivorous.
“One of the goals of carrying out research on grass carp is to provide information about how other Asian carp species might behave if they ever arrive in the Great Lakes,” Mayer said.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the recent discovery of grass carp eggs in the Maumee River “reinforces the need for ongoing coordination of strategic grass carp management actions implemented through member agencies of the Lake Erie Committee.”
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Home/Health/Jennifer Aniston responds to criticism of excluding unvaccinated people from her life
Jennifer Aniston responds to criticism of excluding unvaccinated people from her life
Aniston previously said she had excluded from her “weekly routine” people who refused to get vaccinated.
On Thursday, she defended her decision on Instagram.
“If you have an option, you can still pass it on to me,” Aniston said.
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Jennifer Aniston retaliated against those who criticized her after she revealed that she cut ties with “several people” in her personal life because they refused to get vaccinated or disclose their vaccine status.
On Thursday night, Aniston posted a screenshot of a comment from an Instagram account asking why she “cares” about people not vaccinated if she’s already vaccinated.
“Because if you have an option, you can still pass it on to me,” Aniston replied to the comment.
“I may get a little sick, but I will not be admitted to the hospital and I will not die. But I can give a vaccine to someone who does not have a vaccine and whose health is at risk (or has a previous condition) – and therefore I would risk my life. “
She added, “That’s why I’m worried. We have to take care not only of ourselves. “
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COVID-19 vaccines have proven extremely successful in preventing serious illnesses that could lead to hospitalization and death. In July, Dr. Rochelle Walenski, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported data showed 99.5% of deaths from COVID-19 there were unvaccinated people in the USA.
However, no vaccine can prevent infection 100%. Of the 157 million fully vaccinated Americans, 733 have died from COVID-19 as of July 6. according to CDC… At least 3,554 people were hospitalized and survived. The CDC no longer tracks minor breakouts.
Jennifer Aniston originally told InStyle magazine that she had to exclude people from her love life because they “Refused” the vaccine…
“There is still a large group of people who oppose vaccination or simply don’t listen to the facts. This is a real shame, ”she told the publication. “I just lost a few people in my weekly routine who refused or did not disclose [whether or not they had been vaccinated]and it was unfortunate. “
She added: “I feel it is your moral and professional responsibility to inform, as we do not all accumulate and test every single day. This is difficult because everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but many opinions do not seem to be valid. nothing but fear or propaganda. “
Throughout the pandemic, Aniston has highlighted the importance of adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols such as self-isolation and wearing a mask.
Last June she posted a selfie in a face mask with an accompanying caption: “This simple and effective recommendation is politicized at the expense of people’s lives. And it really shouldn’t be an argument. “
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Your Story: Two-time breast cancer survivor, “thriver,” continues criminal justice career
Brenda Smith was the first Black female police officer in the state of Nebraska. Following a 25-year career with the Omaha Police Department, she retired as assistant police chief and started teaching criminal justice at Metropolitan Community College (MCC). A loving mother, grandmother and daughter, she also helped care for her ailing mom and dad for many years before they both passed away in 2019.
“I’m one of those that loved my parents deeply – still do,” she reflected. “They got me through having cancer. They were so supportive.”
Brenda’s own tumultuous health journey began in October 2009, with an abnormality on her breast cancer screening. Her doctor told her to come back in six months and with a second screening, determined a biopsy was needed.
A few days later, Smith was preparing for class at MCC when she received a call and heard the dreaded words: “You have cancer.”
Smith started treatment right away, relying on her OB-GYN of 20 years to help her find the best physicians for her care. Recommending an MRI, Smith’s oncologist worked with her insurance company, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE), to approve the test.
That’s when they discovered a second spot of cancer that hadn’t originally appeared on her mammogram.
“If [my doctor] had not done an MRI – if [BCBSNE] hadn’t approved it – they wouldn’t have known about the second spot,” Smith said. “I could have been gone in six months, as aggressive as it was.”
Smith underwent a lumpectomy to remove the cancerous tissue and had 37 sessions of radiation treatment. Her days consisted of a grueling schedule: Treatment in the morning, teaching classes throughout the day, then heading home at night, exhausted.
The support of her family, including her beloved parents, and a chance to connect with other women in a similar situation, helped lift her spirits.
“What I really loved about BCBSNE is that they afforded me the opportunity to go have yoga at no cost to me. I actually did that with a group of women who had breast cancer, as well. That was so positive for me; I felt like ‘I’m going to make it through.’”
Smith took a few semesters off from teaching at MCC to focus on treatment – continuing to receive mammograms every three months. Two years after surgery, she was able to extend her mammograms out to six months apart.
Unfortunately, at her checkup appointment in 2012, Smith found herself back in the waiting room, praying with a stranger, only to discover her cancer had returned in almost the same spot.
This time, she underwent a double mastectomy, followed by reconstructive surgery.
Smith’s results? Cancer-free, making her a two-time breast cancer “survivor/thriver.”
Today, she has returned to teaching at MCC and spending as much time as possible with her three children and 11 grandchildren.
“I am so blessed to have BCBSNE [insurance] as an Omaha Police Department retiree and a Metro Community College instructor, as I was basically covered 100% during the most difficult times of my life,” she said.
Smith’s story is just one of many. Share your own health journey at NebraskaBlue.com/YourStory.
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About the Author: Cassandra Wade
Cassie is a communications strategist at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska and the managing editor of the Newsroom.
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Sabrina Spellman Makes An Appearance On The CW’s Riverdale; Kiernan Shipka Reveals ‘Fans Will Get Some Clarity’
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(ViacomCBS) – Kiernan Shipka guest stars in a bewitching crossover episode of the CW’s Riverdale Dec. 7, playing the iconic Sabrina Spellman from the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
“Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Witching Hour” revisits the Blossom women’s tragic past. Desperate for help, Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) summons Greendale’s Spellman to work a little magic. The season 6 crossover event was confirmed earlier this year. CBS’s Katie Johnston got a taste of the upcoming special appearance this week in an interview with Shipka.
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KJ- Sabrina Spellman from the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is summoned to Riverdale, and today we’re getting a first look at the season 6 episode, “Chapter 99: The Witching Hour.” Joining me today to talk all about her guest appearance is Kiernan Shipka. Thank you so much for hanging out with me today.
KS- Thank you for having me. I’m excited to hang.
KJ- Riverdale, based on the characters of Archie Comics, initially debuted back in 2017. It quickly garnered a mass of dedicated followers. There have been talks of doing this crossover for some time now. I have to ask you, have you always been a fan of the show before you were approached about guest starring, and how did this finally come to fruition?
KS- Yeah, I was a fan of Riverdale, and I had seen Riverdale before I was doing Sabrina. To finally get over there is really exciting, you know. I think that we did four parts of Sabrina. And there was so much happening in Greendale that she, just like, never even made it over to Riverdale, because she didn’t have the time, I guess. Now that she’s got more time on her hands and she’s back, it’s good to visit.
KJ- Last winter, we experienced the fourth and final season of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. A tragic ending to that story, to say the least.
KS- A real bummer.
KJ- A real bummer at the very end of that. Are we going to talk about what’s going on there in this upcoming episode of Riverdale?
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KS- Yeah, I think that fans will get some clarity. We hint at some things, not everything is said. There’s more that will be revealed over time. But yeah, I think people will at least know a little bit about what was up, which people deserve to know such a thing.
KJ- Is this appearance going to be the first and only, or is there more for Sabrina Spellman?
KS- It’s definitely going to be the first, but I don’t think it’s going to be the only. I hope not. I really don’t. I really [hope] that we see more Sabrina.
KJ- Before I let you go. Kiernan, if you had special powers, witchy powers, superhero powers, whatever they may be, what would you want and why?
KS- Well, I don’t know. I think it’s pretty close to reality, but I would love to be very psychic. I mean, I think I have a pretty good intuition, but I would love those powers to be heightened.
KJ- Oh, I would love the same. I think that would help me out so much in day-to-day life.
KS- I know, I know!
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Watch Riverdale “Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Witching Hour” Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 9:00/10:00 p.m. Eastern on the CW.
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Giants vs. 49ers: Mario Manningham excited to play old team
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Mario Manningham is motivated to play his old team, the New York Giants.
By Jeff Briggs Oct 10, 2012, 7:46pm EDT
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Former New York Giants wide receiver, and current San Francisco 49ers receiver Mario Manningham called playing his old team, "a dream," saying:
"Oh man, that's a player's dream -- to go out and beat their old team,"
Manningham spent his first four seasons in New York with the Giants. In 2010 he caught 60 balls for 944 yards and nine touchdowns, but he saw his role reduced last season with the emergence of Victor Cruz. Still, Manningham was a hero in Super Bowl XLVI with his sideline catch that set up the Giants' game-winning score.
Manningham says he's not bitter about the Giants not re-signing him, and that he loves his new home in San Francisco. He said he does not hold a grudge towards the Giants, but he is motivated, adding, "who wouldn't be motivated by playing their old team?"
Manningham has 19 receptions for 186 yards and a touchdown thus far for the 49ers.
The Giants travel to San Francisco to take on the 49ers at 4:25 p.m. ET on Sunday, Oct. 14.
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Ralph Rangnick, Acting Manager of Manchester United has a determination for the year 2022 that. He wants to improve the team as a whole. Both offensively and defensively so that they can win success until the end. Despite having only a half-year contract. Ralph Rangnick
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Elton John starred in a Christmas сommercial and it's a real tearjerker
By Rebelander Basilan
https://news.amomama.com/118770-elton-john-starred-a-christmas-ommercial.html
Legendary singer Elton John appeared in a John Lewis commercial that moved many people to tears.
In the ad, the British singer is seen playing his hit song, “Your Song”, on a piano as flashbacks show glimpses into his life.
Scenes from his childhood evoke emotions, especially in one scene where he is running down the stairs on Christmas morning to receive his first piano.
The singer is seen still playing on the same piano as an adult, then a tagline appears, “Some gifts are more than just a gift.”
Source: YouTube/John Lewis & Partners
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ICONIC SONG
The commercial shows how the iconic superstar rose to stardom with recreated scenes from his sold-out stadium concerts and the moment he recorded “Your Song”, one of his greatest hits.
“Your Song” was released in October 1970 as part of his self-titled second studio album. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
The song was also on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” in 2004 and 2010.
The Christmas commercial, posted to YouTube by John Lewis and Partners on November 14, 2018, has been viewed nearly eight million times in just four days.
THE POWER OF GIFT
“This year’s story is about the power of a gift. And how that gift inspired, changed and influenced the course of a little boy’s life. That little boy just happens to be Elton John. The film begins in present day and works backwards chronologically through Elton’s life right until the moment on Christmas morning when he received the special gift that changed his life,” reads the commercial’s description.
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The commercial also elicited mostly positive comments. One YouTube user wrote: “As a young person, I don’t feel as emotional to this ad because I never really knew Elton John. My mother, however, was in tears and felt the happiest she had in ages, so well done and thankyou John Lewis! ”
Another commented, “This is why I love Christmas - John Lewis ads. And this is just heart-warming.”
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Rice general counsel Richard Zansitis steps down after over two decades of service
Richard Zansitis thanked his family and colleagues for their support during his time as Rice's general counsel. (Photos by Brandon Martin)
Rice’s outgoing Vice President and General Counsel Richard Zansitis joined a gathering of friends and colleagues Dec. 16 for a lively celebration honoring his nearly 21 years of service to the university.
Dec. 17 was Zansitis’ last day leading the general counsel’s office of four other attorneys and five staff members. He will serve as an adviser to President David Leebron during the 2022 spring semester and will assist with Rice’s presidential transition through next June.
Leebron served as master of ceremonies for the event at the Rice Faculty Club, joined by past and present Rice trustees and other members of the university community, many of whom took the microphone to honor Zansitis. Former Board Chairman James Crownover, Dean of Undergraduates Bridget Gorman and past Faculty Senate Speaker Carl Caldwell of the Department of History each spoke warmly of their work with Zansitis. All of them described him as a sharp legal mind and a compassionate listener whose door was always open to help navigate all types of predicaments.
Leebron spoke glowingly of both the bond the two fellow lawyers forged over the years and Zansitis’ steadfast commitment to the university during more than two decades as Rice’s lawyer-in-chief.
“You know, you’re the only person in the administration who is still in the position you were in when I arrived,” Leebron said. “I hope that this is just one testament to the value that I personally placed in your service and our relationship. And I hope what you take away collectively today is the enormous gratitude and respect that you command across the entire university.”
President Leebron thanked Zansitis, his colleague and friend, for his decades of service to Rice.
Zansitis expressed his gratitude to former president Malcom Gillis for hiring him to lead Rice’s legal team. “And for David,” he said, “for retaining me when he arrived in 2004.”
“As David (has) so sagely noted, a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client, but he has always respected the difference between being the client and the lawyer,” Zansitis said.
“Plus, he’s not admitted to practice in Texas,” he quipped.
A graduate of Columbia Law School, Zansitis joined Rice from Bucknell University. Earlier in his career, he served as associate general counsel at the University of Chicago, and practiced labor and employment law at firms in Chicago and New York.
Zansitis played a large role in several major initiatives throughout his Rice career. He was instrumental in the formation of the Rice Management Co., providing added oversight for the school’s endowment and debt obligations. Zansitis was also a key player in bringing to life both the Ion and the Welch Institute, served as part of the senior planning team that led to the BioScience Research Collaborative, and helped guide Rice’s nimble response to the coronavirus pandemic as a member of the university’s Crisis Management Advisory Committee.
Rice is also indebted to Zansitis for his work on the myriad legal issues surrounding the school’s digital education initiatives. Scholars across the world benefited from his work with OpenStax, the pioneering Rice nonprofit that’s saved students over $1.2 billion in less than a decade by providing high-quality, free college textbooks through its open-source digital platform.
Zansitis heaped praise on all of the trustees and faculty members he worked with at Rice, touting their “intelligence, thoughtfulness, commitment and collegiality” throughout his tenure. He thanked his wife, Suzanne Mitchell, as well as his colleagues in the general counsel’s office.
“I retire knowing that with a staff like you, the legal work of the university is in excellent hands,” he said. “You are a legal office second to none.
“I look back with some sadness leaving a place as special as Rice,” Zansitis said, “but also pleasure in the work done and the friendships made.”
He rounded out his remarks by quoting a Shakespearean sonnet.
“Love that well which thou must leave ere long,” Zansitis said, a touching sentiment made even more poignant by the lump in the loquacious lawyer’s throat.
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Stephen Sondheim: Renowned composer who 'reinvented musicals' dies aged 91
"Farewell Steve, the musical theatre giant of our times, an inspiration not just to two but to three generations. Your contribution to theatre will never be equalled," Andrew Lloyd Webber said.
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Image: Stephen Sondheim has been described as a 'musical theatre giant' by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Stephen Sondheim - the composer and lyricist behind some of the world's best-known musicals - has died aged 91.
Just some of his best-known works from a 60-year career include the lyrics for West Side Story and Sweeney Todd.
According to The New York Times, Sondheim's death at his home in Connecticut was sudden - and hours earlier, he had celebrated Thanksgiving with his family.
Thank the Lord that Sondheim lived to be 91 years old so he had the time to write such wonderful music and GREAT lyrics! May he Rest In Peace🥲🎵 🎶🎵 pic.twitter.com/vshNSdkvpQ
Awarding him with the presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, Barack Obama said Sondheim "reinvented the American musical".
The then president added: "His greatest hits aren't tunes you can hum; they're reflections on roads we didn't take, and wishes gone wrong, relationships so frayed and fractured there's nothing left to do but send in the clowns."
In December 2019, a theatre on London's West End was named after Sondheim in honour of his 90th birthday - and it is currently home to Les Misérables.
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There is also a Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York - and when it was unveiled in 2010, he said: "I'm deeply embarrassed. I'm thrilled, but deeply embarrassed. I've always hated my last name. It just doesn't sing."
During an interview with NPR in 2013, Sondheim said: "I love the theatre as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me."
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Image: Stephen Sondheim was awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015
Several of Sondheim's hit musicals were later turned into movies, including 2014's Into The Woods starring Meryl Steep, and 2007's Sweeney Todd featuring Johnny Depp.
Performers and writers have paid tribute to the Broadway giant.
"We shall be singing your songs forever," actress Lea Salonga said.
Producer Cameron Mackintosh wrote: "The theatre has lost one of its greatest geniuses and the world has lost one of its greatest and most original writers. Sadly, there is now a giant in the sky."
Image: Some of Sondheim's best-known works included Sweeney Todd
Andrew Lloyd Webber tweeted: "Farewell Steve, the musical theatre giant of our times, an inspiration not just to two but to three generations. Your contribution to theatre will never be equalled."
And Elaine Paige said she was "devastated" to hear that Sondheim had died.
Anna Kendrick tweeted: "I was just talking to someone a few nights ago about how much fun (and f****** difficult) it is to sing Stephen Sondheim. Performing his work has been among the greatest privileges of my career. A devastating loss."
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Simulations describe HIV’s ‘diabolical delivery device’
By Carla Reiter
From a virus’s point of view, invading our cells is a matter of survival. The virus makes a living by hijacking cellular processes to produce more of the proteins that make it up.
From our point of view, the invasion can be a matter of survival too: surviving the virus. To combat viral diseases like HIV-AIDS, Ebola and Zika, scientists need to understand the “life cycle” of the virus and design drugs to interrupt it. But seeing what virus proteins do inside living cells is extremely difficult, even with the most powerful imaging technologies.
Now University of Chicago scientists and their colleagues have developed an innovative computer model of HIV that gives real insight into how a virus “matures” and becomes infective. In doing so, it offers the prospect of developing new anti-viral drugs and greatly extends what has been possible with computer simulations of biological systems. Their findings appeared in the May 13 edition of Nature Communications.
“Understanding the details of viral maturation is considered a holy grail,” said Gregory Voth, the Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry, who built the model with research scientist John Grime. “It has a set of processes that are incredibly hard to stop. With our model, we’ve discovered a key set of dynamical steps in the maturation process. And we think we’ve identified two core aspects of HIV.”
To mature and become infective, a virus must grow a little pear-shaped capsule called the capsid, which is made of proteins that wrap themselves around the RNA that will allow the virus to replicate. “This is the thing that’s going to get shot into a new cell and release its contents,” said Voth. “The capsid is like a little armor-plated container that carries with it the genetic material of the virus. And it is a diabolical delivery device.”
Capsid growth details
Voth and Grime’s model illuminates in detail how the capsid grows in HIV, something difficult to examine in real life because the capsid is tiny and surrounded by other material. “That’s where computer simulations are so powerful,” Voth said. “And in computer simulations you can turn things on and off, which you can’t do in reality. It makes a huge difference in what you learn. It’s not reality, but if the model’s good it can be pretty darn close.”
Voth and Grime worked with data and real-world images from experimental collaborators at the University of Virginia and the California Institute of Technology to make sure that their model was consistent with experimental findings. “Their important work helped us to build the model and validate it,” Voth said.
After the HIV virus infects a cell, it forms a “bud” on the cell’s surface—a virus particle that contains some cell membrane, proteins and the virus’s RNA. The bud breaks free of the cell as the “virion” and travels in the body. During that travelling period, critical proteins inside the bud are cut into bits by the enzyme HIV protease—the target of many of today’s anti-HIV drugs. Some 1,200 of these protein bits pair up and assemble themselves into the capsid, enclosing the RNA.
Conditions inside the virion are crowded. And that crowding turns out to be critical to whether a capsid can form or not. “With our simulations we can make it more and less crowded and you see a remarkable sensitivity to that,” Voth said. Too little crowding, and the proteins are likely to speed past each other without interacting. Too much, and they grow useless bits and pieces.
But Voth and Grime found that even with a Goldilocks-like “just right” amount of crowding in their model, the capsid didn’t grow properly. “We’d grow too much, or we’d start growing multiple pieces of the shell and they wouldn’t stick together in the right way, so you’d get a bunch of crazy-looking structures,” Voth said. “We were fundamentally missing something.”
Flipping and dancing
After a year of further work, they realized that before the protein bits pair up and add themselves to the growing capsid shell they are in constant motion, flipping and dancing around. For them to connect to each other and to the capsid they had to be oriented properly. This meant that only a few of them could participate in building the structure at any given time.
“We discovered that the contortions of these proteins are very important to limiting how fast these structures can grow, so it’s just right,” Voth said. “When we built that into the model, guided by published experimental data, that was the secret.”
A large part of building a computer model is deciding what to leave out of it so that it is computationally tractable. “We develop methods to simplify the calculations while retaining their physical essence,” said Voth. “And that opens up very broad frontiers of what can be studied that hasn’t been possible before.”
But even though it is simpler than what exists in nature, the HIV capsid model is tremendously complex. It took millions of hours of computer time on the National Science Foundation supercomputer Blue Waters in Urbana-Champaign to run the simulations.
“I don’t think anyone’s got close to simulating something of this complexity before,” said Grime, who did most of the nuts-and-bolts construction. “I think it’s a very significant advance in terms of what you can do with these sorts of models.”
Voth envisions making similar models for other dangerous viruses, helping scientists discern the points in the cycle that might be good prospects for disruption by a drug.
“We could do this for Zika virus, for Ebola,” he said. “Viruses have a capsid, and that capsid contains their genetic material. So these sets of methodologies could be applied to any of them. We just need enough information and computer power.”
Citation: “Coarse-grained simulation reveals key features of HIV-1 capsid selfassembly,” by John M.A. Grime, James F. Dama, Barbie K. Ganser-Pronillas, Cora L. Woodward, Grant J. Jensen, Mark Yeager and Gregory A. Voth, Nature Communications, published May 13, 2016, DOI: 10.1038/NCOMMS11568.
Funding: National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.
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Local high-schoolers selected to participate in UNT journalism program designed to enhance the newsrooms of the future
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Nicaragua Country Profile
Capital: Managua
Currency: Nicaraguan Cordoba (NIO)
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The Republic of Nicaragua is located in Central America. It is the largest country in the country on the continent.
The country recorded a population of 6.466 million in 2018 and covers an area of 129,999 km2.
Its capital city, which is also the largest city, is Managua. Its landmarks include the Nicaragua Cathedral, Carlos Fonseca tomb, National Palace and National Museum.
The beach at San Juan Del Sur.
It gained full independence in 1838 from the British. Britain, however, remained in control of the country’s Caribbean coast, which it surrendered in 1860.
Culture is greatly influenced by Spanish culture.
The major crops grown in the country are beans, sorghum, rice, cassava, plantains, fruits, vegetables and corn. The common dishes include corn, beans, deep-fried plantains, rice, cabbage and yucca.
Common wildlife animals are puma, deer, margays, peccaries, ocelots, jaguars, reptiles and monkeys.
The common events held in the country are Nicaragua’s Independence Day, Dia de Los Muertos, International Poetry Festival, Holy Week and La Purisima and La Griteria.
Masaya Volcano is in Masaya national park and is the largest national park in the country.
Islets of Grenada in Lake Nicaragua are a tourist attraction site.
Mombacho is a 1,344 m high stratovolcano Nicaragua.
Other must visit sites are Cerro Negro, Apoyo Lagoon Natural Reserve, Lake Managua and Maderas.
It is the second poorest country in the Americas after Haiti.
It has the largest lake in Central America.
It is the largest country in Central America.
It had the first female head of state.
It is bordered on the northwest by Honduras, on the east by the Caribbean, on the south by Costa Rica and the southwest by the Pacific Ocean.
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About atris
The alt-rock sound coming out of Boston (in the fine state of Massachusetts, in the fine country of the United States of America) has a name: a'tris. The group draws upon a myriad of influences to create a noise that moves crowds to their feet. What does this mean? It means it is alternative. You should ponder that. But don't think too deeply, because that hurts
The front man/singer/keyboardist/tunesmith hails from Charlottesville, Virginia. Since relocating to Boston, he has teamed up with several talented musicians, engineers, sonic manipulators, sound wave amplifiers, and assorted players of various instruments. Does he look tortured in his picture? Or are you just imposing your feeling onto him? There is no projection allowed here
There are many musicians that make noise behind the vocals. They all have stories to tell. The best way to understand these stories is to come to a show. After listening to the show, you should approach the band member slowly and ask him questions. Buy him a beer. Do not make sudden movements, the musicians tend to be skittish.
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Targuman posts translation of Targum Ruth
TARGUMAN has posted a draft of his new translation of the Targum to Ruth.
Leptis Magna used as archaeological shield by Gaddafi
PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC WATCH: Col. Gaddafi is reported to be using at least one archaeological site as a shield for armaments:
A petty tyrant hides behind the relics of a magnificent civilisation
Historian Bettany Hughes worries for the future of Leptis Magna, as Colonel Gaddafi moves his tanks among the treasures.
By Bettany Hughes (The Telegraph)
7:00AM BST 18 Jun 2011
... Rebel forces in Libya reported this week that Colonel Gaddafi is using the site as an archaeological shield. Missiles, launchers and troops are, they say, snuggled among columns, corridors and archways. Nato forces – in Gaddafi’s reckoning – won’t bomb them, or his men. Clever. They won’t. But if Gaddafi is holding explosives in this World Heritage Site, a single stray cigarette butt could kick start a sequence that sends it all up in smoke.
The loss of Leptis would be unthinkable. Founded by Phoenician traders in the Bronze Age, the city-complex has been a theatre of power and pleasure, of indulgence and intellect for more than 3,000 years. It is one of the best-preserved ancient sites in the Mediterranean. Ruled by Carthage for centuries, the Romans quickly conquered it. Recent discoveries include an eye-wateringly exquisite series of Roman-period mosaics, where warriors hound animals and a spent gladiator lords it over the corpse of his sparring partner. It was a local boy, Septimius Severus, who in the 2nd century AD really made Leptis roar, rebuilding the forum and the port – as Roman emperor he promoted the city to the premier league. Leptis is a megalithic incarnation of this region’s high-octane, personality-driven history.
Aerial bombardment of the site with water balloons filled with refined liquid putrescine would clear it pretty quickly of people, and then the weaponry wouldn't matter much. The ruins wouldn't mind. No one ever listens to me about these things.
A little daily Hekhalot is good for you
A LITTLE DAILY HEKHALOT is good for you and helps keep the dangerous angels at bay. I hope Jared Calaway makes this a series. With MOTP volume one out of the way, I begin a year of research leave soon in which I aim to finish my translation of the Hekhalot literature.
More on the completion of the CAD
MORE ON THE COMPLETION OF THE CHICAGO ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY from Chuck Jones at the Oriental Institute blog.
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron coming to the West
ARCHANGEL METATRON WATCH: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is being released in North America on 26 July and in Europe on 9 September. This demo review has a detailed description and lots of images. I can't play the video here, but it may work where you are.
Reveiw of Garber, "The Jewish Jesus"
Jesus for Jews
By Eve Levavi Feinstein (Jewish Ideas Daily)
That Jesus lived and died a Jew would hardly be regarded as news by most educated Jews and Christians today. Still, while the historical Jesus is ever-elusive, the figure of Jesus, for Jews, has become more accessible. The pronounced decline of Christian anti-Semitism in our day has allowed for more freedom to discuss not only the tortuous and changing relationship of Jews to the Church, but also to its founder and the central figure of its concern: namely, Jesus.
The past half-decade has seen a spate of books on the topic written by Jews, with titles like The Misunderstood Jew and From Rebel to Rabbi. In 2007, the Christian scholar Peter Schafer published a challenging study on the place of Jesus in the Talmud. The newest entry in the field is a collection of essays edited by Zev Garber, The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation.
While the collection is composed in part of papers presented at a 2009 symposium, the word "reclamation" is a tip-off that the editor's interest in the subject is not merely academic. The Church's task, as represented in this volume, is to foster a more positive and respectful relationship with those who, according to the book's dedication, "practice the faith of Jesus." For Jews, acknowledgment of Jesus' Jewishness opens the door to a deeper and more constructive relationship with those who, in turn, "believe by faith in Jesus." In short, reflection on the Jewishness of Jesus promises to serve as the basis for enhanced Jewish-Christian dialogue.
Antiquities looters caught
BUSTED:
Antiquities Robbers Caught Red Handed
by Hebrew site (Arutz Sheva)
The Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Theft in the Antiquities Authority has staged a successful operation in which Arab antiquities robbers were caught red-handed while digging at an archaeological site, where they were attempting to plunder archaeological findings.
The action was taken following a severe wave of theft digs in the area of the Elah Valley near Beit Shemesh. According to archaeologist Alon Klein, who commanded the operation, the gang had been digging in at least three other sites that all contain Jewish artifacts from the 2nd Temple, up to 70 C.E. and Bar-Kochba Rebellion, ca. 132 C.E. periods.
Quotations from Lost Books in the Hebrew Bible
HERE'S MY HANDOUT for my keynote paper at the St Andrews Graduate Conference, being presented even as this post appears:
Lost Books Cited in the Pentateuch
The Book of the Wars of YHWH plus a work song (Num 21:14-18a)
Excerpt from an Amorite Victory Song (Num 21:27-39)
Lost Books Cited in The Deuteronomistic History
The Book of the Righteous (The Book of Jashar) or The Book of the Song (Josh 10:12-13a; 2 Sam 1:17-27; 1 Kgs 8:12-13 MT // 1 Kgs 8:53a LXX)
A book on the conduct of the kingship (1 Sam 10:25)
The sapiential works of Solomon (1 Kgs 5:12-13 [Evv 4:32-33])
The Book of the Acts of Solomon (1 Kgs 11:41)
The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel (1 Kgs 14:19; 15:31; 16:5, 14, 20, 27; 22:39; 2 Kgs 1:18; 10:34; 13:8, 12; 14:15, 28; 15:11, 15, 21, 26, 31)
The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah (1 Kgs 14:29; 15:7a, 23a; 22:46; 2 Kgs 8:23; 12:20 [Evv 12:19]; 14:18; 15:6, 36; 16:19; 20:20; 21:17, 25; 23:28; 24:5)
Lost Books Cited in 1-2 Chronicles
The Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah (2 Chr 27:7; 35:26-27; 36:8a)
The Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel (2 Chr 16:11; 25:26; 28:26; 32:32)
The Book of the Kings of Israel (1 Chr 9:1a; 2 Chr 20:34)
The Midrash of the Book of Kings (2 Chr 24:27a)
The Acts of the Kings of Israel (2 Chr 33:18)
The Acts of Samuel the Seer, The Acts of Nathan the Prophet, and The Acts of Gad the Visionary (1 Chr 29:29-30)
The Acts of Nathan the Prophet, The Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and The Visions of Jeddo the Visionary Concerning Jeroboam Son of Nebat (2 Chr 9:29)
The Acts of Shemiah the Prophet and Iddo the Visionary for Enrollment by Genealogy (2 Chr 12:15a)
The Midrash of the Prophet Iddo (2 Chr 13:22)
The Acts of Uzziah (2 Chr 26:22)
The Words of the Visionaries (2 Chr 33:19)
The Chronicler's sources as a single digest of The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
The Book of the Chronicles of King David (1 Chr 27:23-24)
King David's plan from YHWH for the Temple (1 Chr 28:19)
Writings of David and Solomon on the divisions of the Levites (2 Chr 35:4)
The Laments of Jeremiah and the singers over King Josiah (2 Chr 35:25)
Just to get you thinking. You will have to wait until Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures volume one comes out to read the full article.
Test results on the new Jordan metal codices
FAKE METAL CODICES WATCH: News from the Jordan Times:
Tests support 'Jordan texts' authenticity
By Taylor Luck
AMMAN - Preliminary lab results indicate that a collection of metal books unearthed in northern Jordan may indeed represent the earliest Christian texts ever discovered, according to experts.
According to the Department of Antiquities (DoA), initial carbon tests to determine the authenticity of lead-sealed metal books billed as the greatest find in biblical archaeology since the Dead Sea scrolls have been “encouraging”.
“We really believe that we have evidence from this analysis to prove that these materials are authentic,” DoA Director Ziad Saad told The Jordan Times.
The tests, carried out at the Royal Scientific Society labs, indicate that the texts may date back to the early first century AD, at a time when Christians took refuge from persecution on the east bank of the Jordan River.
The codices, which were retrieved by Jordanian security services from the black market last month, are believed to be part of a greater cache of 70 lead-sealed books allegedly uncovered in Jordan and smuggled across the River Jordan into Israel.
Efforts to repatriate the texts from Israel are pending the final results of the carbon dating, currently being carried out at the University of New Mexico, the Getty Conservation Institute and Sheffield University.
This needs to be taken apart piece by piece.
1. The claim is that the new metal codices in the hands of the Jordanian Government are part of the same cache as those announced back in March. I take them at their word, but no proof has yet been advanced.
2. What's this about "carbon tests" and "carbon dating" on metal plates? Carbon-14 dating is applied to organic material. Is there organic material, such as leather scroll, associated with these plates? Or, more likely, has someone made a careless mistake here?
3. Assuming the latter, it appears that the current tests indicate that the metal of the plates is ancient. It has been known for a long time that the fake metal codices may be made of genuinely ancient metal. The first report, on 3 March, in the Jewish Chronicle (cf. here), reported this:
Undeterred, Mr Feather instead cites the findings of Peter Northover, a metals analyst at Oxford University. Conducting tests on two samples of metal from one book, Dr Northover concluded that their composition was "consistent with a range of ancient lead," and that it was clear from the surface corrosion that the book was "not a recent production".
The IAA remains unconvinced, arguing that the metal could have been taken from an ancient coffin while the messages could have been fabricated later.
This test was done privately and has not been published. The IAA has replied adequately: such ancient metal is available and could be used for such forgeries, so the new test does not tell us anything very interesting.
4. As has been noted here and elsewhere many times, one of the codices in the original cache is a clumsy, transparent fake. Some of the other codices in this cache have their own problems that cast serious doubt on their authenticity and most or all of them have stylistic and iconographic features that tie them closely to each other and to the obvious fake codex. In other words, at least most of them are fakes, although quite possibly fakes inscribed in the modern period on ancient metal.
5. If the current reports that these new codices are from the same cache is correct (and aside from this vague assertion we have been told nothing else about them), all indicators are that they are fakes too.
6. I have summarized the case against the authenticity of the first set of metal codices here. It is telling that no one defending the authenticity of these texts has made any effort to reply to these problems. Mr. Elkington did make the ridiculous assertion that Dr. Thonemann was not qualified to comment because he is a Greek classicist rather than a biblical scholar. In case you're wondering, Greek classicists are generally considered qualified to comment on (purportedly) ancient Greek texts. Also, biblical scholars mainly take interest in texts that have some clear connection with the Bible, which these metal codices do not. Oh, and Mr. Elkington also said that the photographs are not very good. And whose fault is that? In any case, the forged Greek text is entirely readable, despite the forger's poor knowledge of Greek.
So, to sum up, the fake metal codices are still fake (see the first link in point 6 above for nuancing), and if the new discoveries are part of the same cache, it is likely that they are fakes as well, albeit fakes inscribed on ancient metal.
Recent background here, here, and here and follow those links.
UPDATE: Tom Verenna fills out the point about C-14 dating. His link to "Jona" is here. He also notes that Jim West and Robert Deutsch have new photographs that raise further doubts about the authenticity of the plates.
At St Andrews Graduate Conference
I'M AT THE 1ST ST ANDREWS CONFERENCE FOR BIBLICAL AND EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES today and tomorrow. Probably won't have much time for blogging.
News on the More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project
NEWS ON THE MORE OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA PROJECT: I am very happy to announce that the first volume of texts edited for the More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project has been sent to the publisher (Eerdmans) and we anticipate its publication within the next year. Below is a flier being circulated at the conference tomorrow which gives some additional details, and below that is a list of the table of contents of the volume.
A second volume is underway, but it will be some time before it comes out.
THE MORE OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA PROJECT
The More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha project at the University of St. Andrews (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/moreoldtestamentpseudepigrapha/) has assembled an international team of scholars to translate a new collection of Old Testament pseudepigrapha. The project is headed by Professor James R. Davila and Professor Emeritus Richard Bauckham, with Dr. Alexander Panayotov as co-editor. The "Old Testament pseudepigrapha," as the term is now commonly used, are ancient books that claim to be written by a character in the Old Testament or set in the same time period as the Old Testament and recount narratives related to it, but which do not belong to the Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant biblical canons. The Project is publishing two new volumes of pseudepigrapha, most of which were not included in the massive two-volume collection edited by James H. Charlesworth or the important collection edited by H. F. D. Sparks, both published in the 1980s. (The few overlaps are cases where we have significant new manuscript data or we believe that a text requires a new treatment for other reasons.)
Our new corpus consists of about 100 documents, about two-thirds of which are complete and the rest are fragments or quotations. They include apocalypses—angelic revelations to prophets and sages such as Elijah, Ezra, and Daniel; magical, oracular, exorcistic and mantic works attributed to prophets and sages such as Moses, David, Solomon, the Sibyl, and Jeremiah; songs and poetry attributed to Old Testament characters, especially David; "rewritten scripture" that retells stories known from the Old Testament from the fall of Adam and Eve to the deaths of the Maccabean martyrs; legends and tales set in the Old Testament period and usually, although not always, involving Old Testament characters such as Enoch, Melchizedek, Levi, and even the antediluvian giants; and various other obscure and intriguing works, including a legendary account of the hiding places of the Temple treasures, lost pre-exilic oracles of the seer Balaam, and a legend of how all human knowledge was preserved in the Great Pyramid during the Flood. The first volume of texts is now in press with Eerdmans and is slated to be published by mid-2012 under the title Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures.
The Old Testament pseudepigrapha are an important and much neglected part of the biblical tradition. The earliest were written down at the same time and in the same geographic area as the Hebrew Bible, and some are even cited therein. They continued to be composed and copied throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages and, indeed, new pseudepigrapha are still being written in the modern era. The corpus being published in these two volumes adds a great many texts to those already known from the earlier collections and together with them provides the reader with virtually all known surviving pseudepigrapha written before the rise of Islam. Some of these compositions provide us with fascinating background material to the New Testament. Others are a rich source of information on the reception history of the Hebrew Bible by Jews, Christians, and pagans through late antiquity. They frequently give us different perspectives from those found in writings of the same period which later acquired an authoritative status in Judaism (the rabbinic literature) and Christianity (the patristic literature). Together they present us with the sacred legends and spiritual reflections of numerous long-dead authors whose works were lost, neglected, or suppressed for many centuries. By making these documents available in excellent English translations and authoritative but accessible introductions we aim both to promote more scholarly study of them and to bring them to the attention of the vast lay audience who appreciate such treasures.
Table of contents of volume one:
James H. Charlesworth
Richard Bauckham and James R. Davila
I. TEXTS ORDERED ACCORDING TO BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY
Adam Octipartite/Septipartite
Grant Macaskill with Eamon Greenwood
The Life of Adam and Eve (Coptic Fragments)
Simon J. Gathercole
The Book of the Covenant
James VanderKam
The Apocryphon of Seth
Alexander Toepel
The Book of Noah
Martha Himmelfarb
The Apocryphon of Eber
The Dispute over Abraham
The Inquiry of Abraham
The Story of Melchizedek
with the Melchizedek Legend from the Chronicon Paschale
Pierluigi Piovanelli
The Syriac History of Joseph
Kristian S. Heal
Aramaic Levi
James R. Davila
Midrash Vayissa‘u
The Testament of Job (Coptic Fragments)
Gesa Schenke
The Tiburtine Sibyl (Greek)
Rieuwerd Buitenwerf
The Eighth Book of Moses
Todd E. Klutz
The Balaam Text from Tell Deir ‘Allā
Edward M. Cook
Eldad and Modad
Songs of David
G. W. Lorein and E. Van Staalduine-Sulman
The Aramaic Song of the Lamb (Dialogue between David and Goliath)
C. T. R. Hayward
Exorcistic Psalms of David and Solomon
Gideon Bohak
The Selendromion of David and Solomon
Pablo A. Torijano
The Hygromancy of Solomon
Questions of the Queen of Sheba and Answers by King Solomon
Vahan S. Hovhanessian and Sebastian P. Brock
The Nine and a Half Tribes
The Heartless Rich Man and the Precious Stone
William Adler
Jeremiah's Prophecy to Pashhur
Darrell D. Hannah
The Apocryphon of Ezekiel
Benjamin G. Wright III
The Treatise of the Vessels (Massekhet Kelim)
The Seventh Vision of Daniel
Sergio La Porta
A Danielic Pseudepigraphon Paraphrased by Papias
Basil Lourié
The Relics of Zechariah and the Boy Buried at His Feet
Sefer Zerubbabel: The Prophetic Vision of Zerubbabel ben Shealtiel
John C. Reeves
Fifth Ezra
Theodore A. Bergren
Sixth Ezra
The Latin Vision of Ezra
II. THEMATIC TEXTS
The Cave of Treasures
Palaea Historica ("The Old Testament History")
with an Excursus on Quotations from Lost Books in the New Testament
Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise
Helen Spurling
Origen's Hexapla online
ORIGEN'S HEXAPLA, or what was left of it in 1875, is online:
Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt
sive, Veterum interpretum Graecorum in totum Vetus Testamentum fragmenta. Post Flaminium Nogilium, Drusium, et Montefalconium, adhibita etiam versione syro-hexaplari, concinnavit, emendavit, et multis partibus auxit Fridericus Field.
Published 1875 by E typographeo Clarendoniano in Oxonii .
I. Prolegomena. Genesis-Esther.
II. Jobus-Malachias. Auctarium et indices.
(HT James Harding on FB.)
The Hexapla Institute is currently working on a new edition of the Hexapla which contains material discovered after Fields's time.
James McGrath: Harmonizing Judas with Doctor Who
JAMES MCGRATH is Harmonizing Judas With Doctor Who and he has tagged me on Facebook to participate. I'm pretty busy with two conferences in the next fortnight, but I'll see if inspiration strikes me.
Duane Smith on the philology of the serpent's craftiness
DUANE SMITH looks at the philology of the serpent's craftiness over at Abnormal Interests:
ערום In Old Greek And Even Older Greek
Targum Onkelos for Genesis 3:1a Reads Something
Sex in the OT Pseudepigrapha
WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS? Tablet Magazine has a reviewlet of a new book on sex in the Old Testament pseudepigrapha:
Modern ideas about Jews’ and women’s sexuality can be complex and strange, but some of the images that circulated in antiquity were downright bizarre. William Loader demonstrates this in The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality (Eerdmans, March), the third installation in his vast five-volume project “exploring attitudes toward sexuality in Judaism and Christianity during the Greco-Roman era.” In The Testament of Solomon, a pseudepigraphical text believed to have been composed sometime in the first four centuries of the common era, the notoriously polygamous Jewish monarch encounters a group of demons. One of them, named Onoskelis, is “a female demon of mixed form, a human woman with the legs of an ass,” who gleefully explains, “Sometimes I strangle men; sometimes I pervert them from their true natures.” Just imagine how much more trouble Weiner might have gotten himself into if she were still around.
The BBC on the CAD
THE COMPLETION OF THE CHICAGO ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY is celebrated by the BBC:
Dictionary of dead language complete after 90 years
By Cordelia Hebblethwaite BBC News
Five volumes of 21 volumes of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary. Photo by Jason Smith The first volumes of the dictionary were published in the 1950s
A dictionary of the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work.
Assyrian and Babylonian - dialects of the language collectively known as Akkadian - have not been spoken for almost 2,000 years.
"This is a heroic and significant moment in history," beamed Dr Irving Finkel of the British Museum's Middle East department.
As a young man in the 1970s Dr Finkel dedicated three years of his life to The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project which is based at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
That makes him something of a spring chicken in the life story of this project, which began in 1921.
Background here. More on Dr. Finkel here.
Photo: Samaritans Celebrate The Festival Of Shavuot In The West Bank
PHOTO: Samaritans Celebrate The Festival Of Shavuot In The West Bank.
A Byzantine-era building at Acre
A BYZANTINE-ERA BUILDING AT ACRE:
Archaeologists unearth Acre church from the Byzantine Period
Discovery of public structure in north Israel city is breakthrough, first time Christian structure has been unearthed in Acre, a city said to have been highly influential in early years of Christianity.
By Jack Khoury (Haaretz)
The headline pretty much says it. But an earlier IAA press release was more cautious about calling it a church.
BMCR: Mason, Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins
BMCR REVIEW:
Steve Mason, Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins: Methods and Categories. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2009. Pp. xx, 443. ISBN 9781598562545. $34.95.
Reviewed by Livia Capponi, Newcastle University (livia.capponi@ncl.ac.uk)
This book collects various papers that were previously published in not easily accessible places. These papers have been rearranged by Mason in three parts, the first on the interpretation and historical use of Josephus, the second on Judean society, and the third on Christian origins and the Gospels. The concern for method and categories is present throughout the book. It is a lucid reappraisal of the earlier scholarship on these subjects, and its clarity and lucidity make it an extremely useful tool for both students and scholars in ancient history.
Happy 30th to Raiders of the Lost Ark
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK turns 30 today. In honor of the anniversary, Brian Mciver gives us Raiders of the Lost Archives - 30 things you didn't know about Indiana Jones. Note that number 7 has missing bits of number 14 in it.
UPDATE: The original cinema trailer for Raiders is here. And here's another Indiana Jones tidbit: Archaeology's Tech Revolution Since Indiana Jones. Cross-file under "Technology Watch" and take the part about the 17 pyramids with a grain of salt.
St Andrews Conference on Authoritative Texts and Reception History
CONFERENCE REMINDER: The 1st St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies: Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches is on Wednesday and Thursday of this coming week at the Divinity School of the University of St Andrews. Follow the link for the schedule. I am one of the plenary speakers, as are Professor Kristin De Troyer, Professor N. T. Wright, and Dr. Mark Elliott.
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron coming to t...
Duane Smith on the philology of the serpent's craf...
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PGCBL Players of the Night: July 12
Throughout the season, the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League will be recognizing a Player and Pitcher of the Night on each game day.
Player of the Night: Allen Murphy, Newark (St. John Fisher)
Allen Murphy continued his All-Star season on Thursday night, driving in four runs in Newark's 7-4 victory over the Elmira Pioneers. Murphy went 3-for-5, hitting two singles and his fifth home run of the season. The Richburg, New York native singled in two runs in the fifth inning, and added a two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning to extend Newark's lead to three runs. The performance continued Murphy's stretch as arguably the hottest player in the league, as the All-Star has gone 12-for-18 with 13 runs batted in during his last four games. Murphy also boasts an eleven game on base streak.
Pitcher of the Night: Brian Hendry, Oneonta (St. John's)
In his fourth appearance of the PGCBL season, Brian Hendry came up big for the Oneonta Outlaws, leading the home team to a victory over the Saugerties Stallions. Hendry entered the game in the sixth inning, with the score tied at three. The righthander proceeded to work three scoreless innings, and preside over the Outlaws' 11-4 victory. Hendry struck out three hitters, while allowing just one hit and one walk in his first victory as an Outlaw. Over his four outings for Oneonta this season, Hendry has posted a 2.00 ERA, and has not allowed an earned run in his last five innings on the mound.
Stay tuned to PGCBL.com throughout the season for further presentations of the Player and Pitcher of the Night awards.
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Roaring 20s Resort Swings into the 21st Century in Style
By Megan Ritchie Jooste Apr 3, 2015, 11:35am EDT
Photos of the Green Hill Farms Hotel (above) and The Palmer (below) via Cross Properties
Originally constructed as "a respite for Philadelphia's elite and intelligentsia" in the 1920s, The Palmer is now primed for its reincarnation as a luxury apartment complex. The four-story, boutique-style complex, opening in May, features 110 one, two and three-bedroom residences. The property boasts resort-style amenities such as a saltwater pool and sunbathing terrace, a fitness center and yoga room, community garden, a dog run, guest suite, private lounge and library, culinary kitchen, and a 24-hour doorman and concierge desk.
Designed by famed Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer, the structure opened in 1922 as Green Hill Farms Hotel. The Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary later converted the resort into classrooms and dormitories in 1939, and added a chapel in 1951. In 2012, Cross Properties purchased the building, and placed it on the National Register of Historic Places. After a $35 million adaptive reuse and redevelopment of the eight-acre property, the 120,000-square-foot complex is set for its grand opening at the beginning of May.
"The Palmer is more than just an apartment community, it is a piece of Philadelphia history. Our intention is to retain, preserve and celebrate the original vision of the property, while integrating modern luxuries, technologies, conveniences and services," said Kevin Michals, Principal at Cross Properties.
Yes, sir, that's a beauty.
· The Palmer
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in: Events by Year, 1969
PAW Patrol timeline
1925 | 1938 | 1948 | 1950 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on a Wednesday. This page is an archive of all the PAW Patrol-related events from the year.
July 10: Alfredo Rollo (Brazilian Portuguese voice of Francois Turbot) was born.
September 13: Tyler Perry (CAN/US voice of Gus the Truck Driver) was born.
December 20: Peter Cugno (CAN/US voice of Francois Turbot and Waiter Bot) was born.
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Put macOS on the iPad, you cowards – The Verge
macOS, not a brighter screen, is the update the iPad Pro really needs
Okay, hear me out on this. I really would just like Apple’s next iPad Pro to be a laptop. Not a clamshell, but a Surface Pro type of deal: a tablet with laptop hardware and a laptop OS. I think there must be people at Apple who want this, too, so I’m now respectfully requesting that the company stop dilly-dallying and make it happen.
Here’s my reasoning: at Tuesday’s Spring Loaded event, Apple finally unveiled a long-rumored update to its iPad Pro. While the device doesn’t look too different from iPad Pro models of years past, it’s a huge leap forward on the inside because it’s powered by Apple’s eight-core M1 processor. That’s the same processor that powers its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro (as well as the Mac mini), and it’s exceptional. To repeat, the new iPad Pro isn’t using a Macbook-adjacent or MacBook-equivalent processor. It’s using the same processor that’s in those laptops.
Let’s review what else the iPad Pro can do. It now supports Thunderbolt 3 and can power additional displays at up to 6K resolution. It supports 5G. It can come with up to 2TB of storage and 16GB of RAM. You can connect a keyboard and touchpad. On paper, that’s a laptop. (Or it’s a Surface Pro, whatever you want to call that.)
But that’s before you actually use the thing. Personally, I just can’t use iPadOS for my daily multitasking workload. On a MacBook, I can duck in and out of Zoom calls to mess around in Chrome and keep several tabs and applications open on my screen at once. Doing that on the iPad is, comparatively, a mess — I can reasonably look at one or two apps max, resizing is a pain, and it doesn’t take full advantage of my external display.
Furthermore, iOS apps still have less functionality than their macOS counterparts across the board. A MacBook can just do more. And until the iPad Pro gains the ability to run macOS apps (or, dare I suggest, macOS), I don’t see that calculus changing. I’m far from a creative professional, but I still need my daily driver to be able to run the full version of Photoshop.
But now that the iPad Pro is an M1 system, I don’t see why it can’t run macOS apps. Because it has the same hardware as the MacBook Air (including the fanless form factor). So the iPad really should be able to run whatever the MacBook Air can run. (And the MacBook Air can run just about whatever you want. Take a look at our review for a deep dive there.)
Battery is a potential pitfall: the larger iPad has a nearly 20 percent smaller battery than the Air (40.88Whr to the Air’s 49.9Whr). But both M1 MacBooks have excellent battery life, and the larger iPad’s battery is still similar in size to that of Lenovo’s ThinkPad X12 Detachable and bigger than that of the Surface Pro X — neither of which have been a disaster in our testing. So I’d be surprised if it can’t get the job done.
Apple has also shown that it’s not afraid to bring consumers into a messy software transition. After all, the new M1 MacBooks can run iPhone and iPad apps natively. Many of them, upon the machines’ release, weren’t available or didn’t work well. The sky did not fall.
And of course, Apple has been working to make its ecosystem more cohesive for quite a while. Catalyst makes it more convenient for developers to port their apps between iPadOS and macOS. And many of the tweaks the company made to macOS Big Sur seem specifically designed to bring the operating system closer to the look and feel of iOS — from the rounded window corners and iOS-ified dock icons to the newly translucent layers — and some of its new features (like the new Control Center and the native iOS apps) are iPad staples that don’t make a ton of sense to have on a non-touch device.
The result of all this is that we’re moving toward a weird point in the evolution of these two devices where the MacBook can do everything the iPad can do (but it doesn’t have the touchscreen hardware to take advantage of all of it), while the iPad can still only do iPad things (even though features of macOS would take good advantage of its touchscreen capability). It seems like a point where Apple’s goals of “creating a seamless ecosystem” and “selling you many different products” are starting to butt heads.
So putting macOS apps on the iPad seems like a natural next step in Apple’s process. And from a consumer perspective, I think it could only be a good thing.
In addition to the touch capability and stylus support, the new iPad Pro makes up for the MacBook’s greatest weakness: its grainy garbage webcam. The iPad Pro has been upgraded with a new 12MP TrueDepth ultrawide camera and a feature called Center Stage, which will follow you around and keep your face centered during video chats. This is a great feature for students and professionals who have to take a lot of conference calls from home (myself included) and don’t want to deal with an external device. That said: video calls are kind of a pain on iPadOS (in part because the camera is still on the side, in landscape mode), and, as I noted above, multitasking during them is a lot harder than it is on a MacBook. macOS and the iPad’s camera hardware seem like a good fit.
There’s also the larger iPad’s new Liquid Retina XDR display, which looks like it’s going to be a game-changer. Incorporating over 10,000 Mini LEDs, it’s said to reach 1,000 nits of brightness (which is brighter than many 4K HDR TVs on the market). And 1,000-nit Windows laptops exist (as do Mini LED laptops), but it’s uncommon to see them under the $2,000 price point. This isn’t hardware that the average office user needs — but in a laptop, it would be one of the best screens you can get at its price point, hands down.
Now, would an iPad Pro running macOS be the right purchase for everyone? Of course not. Not everyone wants to work on a 12.9-inch screen all day. I’ll admit that I’d probably find it cramped. I also know people who use the 12.3-inch Surface Pro 7 as their primary driver with no complaints. Many folks care more about having a full-featured PC in a convertible and super versatile form factor than they do about having a big screen.
That’s why I’m convinced there would be an audience for a convertible iPad Pro — especially if its performance and battery life are finally up to par with that of a MacBook. (The iPad Pro also has one fewer USB port, but that’s easily resolved with a dongle. Come on, people.)
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Home Consciousness Girl challenges hate crime ‘record’ when no crime committed
Girl challenges hate crime ‘record’ when no crime committed
From WND.com:
A schoolgirl in the United Kingdom is challenging the practice of police creating a record of a “hate crime” even if there is no crime.
The 14-year-old girl, Miss B, explains, “We can’t live in fear that everything we say at school may be recorded somewhere on our records, simply because someone else didn’t like what you said.”
The College of Policing in the U.K., according to the Christian Institute, now has a rule stating that when someone alleges a hate crime has taken place, officers must keep a record “even where no crime has occurred.”
It creates a circumstance in which records are based on what someone feels or believes instead of the facts.
The records of “non-crimes” can end remain on children’s records for years and can be viewed by potential employers later.
Officially, the motivations attributed for such incidents are identified as “ill-will, spite, contempt, prejudice, unfriendliness, antagonism, resentment and dislike.”
“Children in my class have said that we shouldn’t have freedom of speech because it can upset people,” said the teen. “Just recently, a student said ‘Of Mice And Men’ shouldn’t be a class text because some of the words in the book are racist. I said that it’s a book of its time and it’s important to look at the context. I felt immediately ganged up on. The teacher backed me up but it was scary.”
The U.K.’s DailyMail.com reported the teen is poised to launch a legal action over the rules, a judicial review of the standards.
Civil liberties groups say the non-crimes are without evidence and can injure someone later in life.
DailyMail.com report explained that in just five years, officers in England and Wales have put on official records some 120,000 non-crime “hate” incidents.
The College of Policing insists that police must “record the incident, recording the police interactions and the results of those actions,” for offenses such as “repeated name-calling.”
The teen is represented by Sinclairs Law and the case is being crowd-funded.
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Esther Bunny Brown January 5, 2021 At 7:20 AM
Even if you disagree with Eric Striker’s ethnopolitical beliefs, his most recent article shows how despicable “anti-Whiteness” is.
https://national-justice.com/leaked-documents-suggest-fbi-and-british-intelligence-are-using-cointelpro-tactics-against
As has been added to a BITE Model analysis:
“The ethnopolitically loaded words “racist”, “fascist”, “Nazi” and “White supremacist” may well mean anyone of Aryan (or Indo-European) descent, or even other ethnicities for that matter, who speaks his or her mind, tries to live by uprightly high standards for oneself and others, refuses acceptance of paracommunist propaganda, and encourages others to do the same.”
https://www.deviantart.com/puretassel/art/BITE-Model-Exam-of-the-Post-Modern-Marxist-Culture-810934330
Super Sleuth December 31, 2020 At 9:43 PM
I’m so tired of those who stay in a state of victimhood. Those who blame others and find the most trivial things to be upset about. Free speech would be abolished if every little word of history or literature were to cause pain where non had been directed at the individual. It’s history, and it belongs in the past, not your present.
At what point will people understand that the past cannot harm them and no one owes them an apology or money for the injustices from decades or centuries ago? If we erase our history then we have nothing to refer to that would prevent it from happening again.
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Opinion: How we can pay for ‘levelling up’ the UK
By Sarah GordonJuly / August 2021 (Magazine)
Sarah Gordon explains the importance of the conclusions of a new place-based impact investing report
So far, the UK government has not given a clear definition of what ‘levelling up’ the country really means, or how it could be delivered. There are several building blocks which could be useful – one of the most important being a good understanding of how investment can deliver positive impacts for communities in the places that need that investment most.
Although the impact of coronavirus has been devastating both on a human and economic level, the crisis has made most of us more aware of the places and communities we live in, and value them more.
Neighbourhood initiatives, the realisation of the need to support small businesses around us and equally, becoming aware of what is often a lack of infrastructure and services in many towns and cities in the UK, has installed a new sense of local pride and activism in many of us.
In Manchester, for example, a local postman raised £34,000 (€39,800) for a local food bank by delivering the mail in fancy dress, collecting donations, and running a weekly football card.
Inequality between regions and places is more extreme in the UK than in many comparable economies and has existed for generations. This government, of course, is not the first to promise to tackle it. But the pandemic, coupled with the political realities of Brexit, has moved this reality to the centre stage of public debate.
At a time when the public purse has rarely been so empty or so overstretched, policymakers have a pressing need to mobilise more institutional and private capital to address regional inequalities, and to build on the sense of community which has been strengthened by COVID-19. Unlocking that capital is not as difficult as it may seem.
The new research on place-based impact investing by the Impact Investing Institute, the Good Economy and Pensions for Purpose shows how £16bn of investment by the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) could be unlocked to deliver both financial return, address place-based inequalities and support more inclusive and sustainable development across the UK. The £326bn LGPS is the largest public-sector pension scheme in the UK with more than five million members ranging from local government employees to teachers, police staff and people working in the voluntary sector. We are talking about a massive pool of capital with a legacy of local investing.
Our work shows that several LGPS already rely on place-based impact investing for stable, risk-adjusted return, but this investment only represents 1% of their portfolio. If 5% of their funds were allocated to local investment, £16bn could be allocated to delivering financial returns and responding to the needs and opportunities of specific regions and areas of the UK that need it most. That would be more than three times the amount committed to the government’s Levelling Up Fund with £4.8bn to support town-centre and high-street regeneration, local transport projects, and cultural and heritage assets.
There are good examples for other pension schemes to follow. One is the £22bn Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF), which is not only the largest LGPS in the UK, but also allocates 5% of its portfolio to local investment such as infrastructure and affordable housing.
Sarah Gordon: “inequality between regions and places is more extreme in the UK than in many comparable economies and has existed for generations”
Local investment was originally defined as the Greater Manchester region, but was recently extended to the North of England to enable greater portfolio diversification and more collaboration with other Northern local government pension funds such as Merseyside.
Place-based impact investment is not only for pensions. Although our research focused on the Local Government Pension Scheme, the approach it describes provides a template for other investors, which would mobilise private-sector capital to address inequality in the UK. Our approach can be applied to any and every place, rich or poor, leading or lagging. Investment for town-centre regeneration is needed everywhere, as it is in clean-energy infrastructure, social and affordable housing and support for small businesses. Our model could be successfully integrated into a range of community investment funds, such as the Levelling Up Fund, UK Community Renewal Fund, and the forthcoming Shared Prosperity Fund.
Adopting a place-based impact investment model within existing national strategies that aim to tackle regional inequalities, while building investment partnerships between commercial investors, local and national government, foundations and other social investors, could deliver profound changes to the UK. Our work suggests that, if this path is followed, by 2030 the UK could, indeed, be levelled up.
One of the main goals of the Impact Investing Institute is to better mobilise private-sector capital both to where there are opportunities for investors to deliver positive impact and a financial return, and where it is needed most.
Concrete and robust evidence that place-based impact investments make sense for investors, as well as local economies and communities, has the potential to unlock significant capital that can flow into local businesses, quality jobs, affordable homes, and town centre regeneration.
All this would bring us one step closer to a truly sustainable economy that is both green and fair. If we truly want to level up and build back better we need to start where we ended up in this pandemic – in the places we live.
Sarah Gordon is CEO of the Impact Investing Institute
Infrastructure Europe
Place-based investing: Should LGPS funds help to level up the UK?
July / August 2021 (Magazine)
A new report urges local-authority pension funds to allocate more to place-based investments. Richard Lowe reports
UK LGPS pension funds urged to allocate £16bn to local ‘place-based’ investments
White paper makes the case for redirecting 5% of £326bn of local-authority pension capital
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Nonradiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis - Is this what I have?
Episode 55 • 21st June 2020 • The Axial Spondyloarthritis Podcast • Jayson Sacco
Hello and welcome to this episode of The Ankylosing Spondylitis Podcast. How's everybody doing here in the Northern Hemisphere, I'm in North America and we're having summer, the heats going and man, it feels really, really nice. I know for you in the southern hemisphere, the winter is kicked in. So in areas like Australia and so forth, you're getting a cooler temperature. So I hope that's nice. I hope you guys had a great summer. And overall, you know, I hope it helps with all of the arthritis and all the issues that everybody's dealing with.
Well, in today's episode, I wanted to delve into a subject that I think might be of interest to a lot of people when they look at the boards on Facebook quite a bit. I see people that say, I know I have Ankylosing Spondylitis. I know I've got it. But my rheumatologist won't give me a diagnosis. I have all the pain. I have all the, you know the symptoms, but he or she just won't tell me I have Ankylosing Spondylitis. Why is that? It's frustrating. It's delaying stuff. Well, I'm going to switch it around a little bit. Say that not in all cases, but maybe your rheumatologist is not wrong. Maybe you don't have Ankylosing Spondylitis. But maybe you're dealing with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis. Wow, say that multiple times real fast.
What is it and how is it treated? And that's what I want to cover today because you know, it might be that for some when you go at your doctor saying I have Ankylosing Spondylitis, I have Ankylosing Spondylitis, why won't you diagnose me? They're thinking and only trying to look at maybe not correctly, but they might only be looking at the Ankylosing Spondylitis as the possible outcome. And when the pieces don't fit, even though most of the pieces of the puzzle are there, there are maybe a couple of very key pieces that are missing. You walk away frustrated because you think that I've got this ankylosing spondylitis and the doctors just not listening to me and not validating what I feel. Well, that's where this term that I've covered in several episodes recently, axial spondyloarthritis comes in. That's that umbrella term that covers nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. What's the benefit of me knowing about the difference and let's deal with that because I think it's really important when you think of inflammatory arthritis like rheumatoid arthritis you often think of it as affecting small joints, the hands and the feet. Those are usually the first I think of when I think of rheumatoid arthritis nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis is a different kind of inflammatory arthritis. It falls under an umbrella category that I just mentioned the axial spondyloarthritis. Well, nonradiographic is a type of inflammatory arthritis that causes lower back pain among other symptoms. There's your exact same symptom that you might encounter with ankylosing spondylitis, that lower back pain, that hip pain, the sacroiliac joint pain, you know, all that can fall into both of these nonradiographic, there are symptoms but no visible damage on the X rays. That's the big key takeaway right there is your rheumatologist could be looking at your x rays and saying I don't see any damage, you know, maybe you have fibro or, and they go off on a tangent because they're not thinking nonradiographic. And that's where you, as the patient have to kind of work backwards with the doctor and maybe walk them and say, well, if you're saying I don't have Ankylosing Spondylitis is nonradiographic a possibility. So that's one thing you can start off with, you know, MRIs can help diagnose nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis, but sometimes they too can be negative, and that can really, really throw a diagnosis off. And that's what can make this so challenging and so long unfortunately for some people to get a diagnose. The good news is though there are treatments that are transitioning from the Ankylosing Spondylitis side of the house over the nonradiographic and they're being approved to help on the biologic side. When we think of the rheumatoid arthritis. We think of it affecting hands, feet, things of that nature with nonradiographic axial spondylitis. It falls under an umbrella category of diseases called spondylosis, which includes different types of arthritis with one distinguishing feature. There's almost always inflammation in the spine. Back Pain is the hallmark of the nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis, which sets it apart from any other type of inflammatory arthritis, says Dr. Malik, who's a rheumatologist at New York University langerhans psoriatic arthritis center nonradiographic means the disease causes symptoms, but there's no visible damage on x rays the way there is with related type of inflammatory arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis.
Axial refers to the joints that the disease primarily affects the spine, the chest and the hip bone. Spondyloarthritis is a family of inflammatory arthritis that affects the joints and entethies which are tissues between the bones, the ligaments and the tendons. What are some of the symptoms of nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis to differentiate nonradiographic from any other kinds of back pain? There are a few telltale signs based on when the pain occurs, how long it lasts, and the age that it first strikes and what makes it feel better timing of the pain, back pain and nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis can wake you up in the middle of the night and hurt in the morning you may feel morning stiffness that makes it hard to get out of bed and get moving. Rest verse exercise, mechanical back pain such as from a strain or a slip disc tends to feel better when you're resting or not exerting yourself inflammatory back pain from nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis, on the other hand, often feels better when you move around, you know that move it or lose it exercise are stretched, all of that is good. The other thing is age of onset, nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis symptoms often first strike in late adolescence or early adulthood, often before the age of 40. Entitihisitus is inflammation of the enthitisis where bone attaches to a tendon or ligament is another factor that sets spondyloarthritis like non radiographic Apart from other types of arthritis as the disease progresses, from nonradiographic to later ankylosing spondylitis stages, and to the situs can cause the spinal bones to fuse together and make patients lose mobility because the pain comes from inflammation from the immune problems rather than mechanical wear and tear the joints other body parts can hurt too, especially the knees and the heels. Inflammation from nonradiographic axial spondylitis can also cause other symptoms that go beyond the joints, psoriatic arthritis and enterapathak, which is inflammatory bowel disease related arthritis fall under the spondyloarthritis umbrella and tend to overlap with non radiographic and I see many of you posted I have this I have that that ties back into the nonradiographic. If you're not seeing the damage on MRIs or X rays, and then you're telling your doctor I know I have AS the doctor saying, No you don't. It's a communication gap. We need to get on the same page and use the right terminology to help guide our Doctors to where we think we're at. So about 15% of nonradiographic patients experience uveitis, which is another big one, which is eye inflammation that can cause redness, pain and blurred vision. And I've done several episodes about that that will be linked in the show notes. Other patients might experience they're called sausage digits, you know, where the fingers or toes swell up from inflammation.
So what are some causes of nonradiographic axial spondylitis? Well, obviously, many people have never heard of the phrase nonradiographic axial spondylitis. So it's not surprising that people often chalk up you know, the back pain and the other symptoms to other types of health issues, sprain too much, you know, whatever they whatever they decide, usually mechanical causes, strain sprains, you know, slipped discs, but axial spondyloarthritis tends to take a long time to be diagnosed. That's because the X rays, the MRIs, that can all show negative so you're still having the pain, you're still having the symptoms. But you're not able to get diagnosed and that's why see some of these long diagnosis times I believe, excess bundles artist tends to take a long time to be diagnosed an average of seven years between first symptoms and diagnosis, according to research presented in 2018, and it can take years for inflammation to do visible damage, which makes it hard for doctors to pinpoint the cause rather than being due to mechanical problems and your back non radiographic often occurs because of chronic inflammation. The non radiographic is a cross between like an auto inflammatory and autoimmune condition immune system gets confused, thinks the body is being attacked as the body produces inflammation to protect against the non existent attacker. healthy tissue is damaged in the process. doctors aren't sure exactly, you know what causes the immune system to act this way. With non radiographic though there seems to be a genetic component. For example, the gene variant HLA dash b 27 is common in people with spinal arthritis. You know, research is It develops may turn up other genes, but you know, there's that common thread. Now, that doesn't mean that if you're negative on HLA b 27, and you're negative on your x rays, and you're negative on an MRI, that you don't have non radiographic, so sponder arthritis just means more digging has to be done more looking at the overall lifestyle of what you're encountering. And that's why I say it's very, very important. If you think you have something wrong, start a journal going into the doctor and tell them how you feel that day or how you felt in the last week or two doesn't say a whole lot. Start a journal figure out week after a week, what you're doing what you're dealing with, check things with your diet, remove foods and see how you feel. Add things in and see how you feel and you know, just keep tweaking with it because all that information is going to help that doctor diagnose that nonradiographic axial sponder arthritis, if that's what you're dealing with. So then we get to the difference between nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, which is what a lot of people jump to conclusions that here's what I got. They get upset when their doctor tells them no you don't have ankylosing spondylitis and they start checking off. I have this symptom I have this symptom, this symptom, the doctor you know, that that I think creates some of the confusion. So nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis is generally thought of as an early stage of Ankylosing Spondylitis, another type of spondyloarthritis. The main difference between the two is that as involves bone damage that can be seen on x rays nonradiographic does not because the disease hasn't progressed far enough yet. Spider arthritis starts the joints before affecting the bones. But x rays can't capture the early damage, says rheumatologist Hilary Norton medical director of Santa Fe Rheumatology instead rheumatologists often use MRIs to spot swelling in the softer tissue traditionally, to be diagnosed with as one would need to have an X ray changes which could take 10 years From symptom onset to develop, says Dr. Norton, who herself has ankylosing spondylitis. The CT and the X ray show bone damage after the inflammation is caused damage, but the MRI shows active inflammation. Still, MRIs aren't perfect either. Some patients will show swelling that isn't related to axial spondyloarthritis, others have no swelling do seem to have the disease. In the latter case patients who are monitored and sometimes take another MRI a later date says Dr. Norton research shows that it could take more than a year for MRIs to show visible swelling. So doctors look at the rest of the clinical picture, including symptoms, history and genetic presence like having the HLA-B27 gene as the damage progresses, you know sponder arthritis can move along the spectrum from non radiographic to radiographic though it might never progress there at all over two to 10 years about 10% to 40% of patients with non radiographic axial sponder arthritis will develop ankylosing spondylitis According to a study that was in the expert review of clinical immunology symptoms don't change much from later stage, non radiographic to early stage ankylosing spondylitis. Those as gets worse, the backbones can fuse together and make patients lose spine mobility, says Dr. Malik.
So how is nonradiographic diagnosed? There's no single definitive test that can clinch a nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis diagnosis, so rheumatologists look a combination of clinical symptoms, blood testing, and imaging. And that's why I say it's important for you to do as much of the work as possible in documenting your conditions on a day by day basis for the doctor. Doctors might order blood tests that measure inflammation in the body, such as C reactive proteins, and endocrine sedimentary rates, these tests can pinpoint where in the body the inflammation is occurring, though, so rheumatologists need to take results in context of the whole clinical picture. They should also do a blood test. For the HLA-B27 gene, which is found in about 83% of people with axial spondyloarthritis, according to a study that was done, but again, this test alone can't confirm a diagnosis, because about 98% of people who carry the gene will never develop spondyloarthritis and the HLA-B27 gene is less prevalent in certain groups of people with axial spondyloarthritis, such as African Americans. In most cases, doctors will also use an MRI to help confirm a diagnosis of non radiographic because MRIs can catch inflammation of the sacroiliac joint of the pelvis before the disease progresses enough to see bone fusion and the X ray, but you can still have non radiographic even if the MRI isn't positive and doctors may start treatment. If a physician's clinical suspicion is very high given symptoms and other clinical characteristics. For example, the patient meets the assessment of sponder arthritis International Society clinical criteria simply does not have an alternative explanation for symptoms. We do offer a trial and says physical therapy etc, says Dr. Malik And finally, how is nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis treated? Well at this point treatment for nonradiographic is focused on addressing pain rather than stopping disease progression. And that's actually I'll jump into an interesting piece. This article that I was using and reviewing for some of this information was done in late 2018. Since then, there have been three biologics that have been approved for use in nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis, the newest one just approved last week, I think it was last week was Cosentyx, and that's now joining Cimzia and talks as the three biologics that are available to be used to treat nonradiographic spondyloarthritis with the Cosentyx and the Taltz just coming on in June of 2020. So I mean, just like now, so that gives three biologic opportunities. And that's one thing if you are talking with folks you have to remember telling them to go out and ask their doctor for Humira or Enbrel or some of these others, those may not be approved for nonradiographic. So I would encourage you to really try to focus in if you're not getting that as diagnosis because the doctor keeps saying and x rays are negative work with them to start looking at nonradiographic if the NSAIDS don't work, the American College of Rheumatology recommends using TNF inhibitors, which are a biologic drug that I mentioned earlier. And then you know, some biologics are approved for treating ankylosing spondylitis, but because of they haven't been approved yet for nonradiographic it can be tricky to get insurance companies to cover the treatment. If you are dead set on trying something that is not approved yet, but as I said, there are three that are now approved. So that's a great start. So then again, other types of arthritis under the spondyloarthritis umbrella like psoriatic arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis can be treated with biologics. Some doctors will maybe right up the work as that's the primary thing they're trying to treat hoping that this nonradiographic response as well so that's certainly an option that's out there overall if you're not getting the diagnosis and you keep going at the doctor saying I've got as I've got is changed the thought process in your mind and start looking at non radiographic as a possibility even if you have family members with as they might have already progressed through that non radiographic to the as you may just be the beginning stages of it or you may never make it all the way to a full blown a s unfortunately, you get to deal with all the fun stuff, the pain, everything that goes along with it only under the term non radiographic.
So I hope that is helpful for folks. I really appreciate you listening to the show. This one was a little longer but a lot of good information here. I wanted to get out to everybody and you can find the links to the article I referenced in the show notes as well as shows on biologics and uveitis that discussed past episodes that I've done also linked in the show notes. And as always, again, I thank everybody for listening around the world. It's just amazing to see the downloads come in from around the world and please go out to spondypodcast.com and sign up for the newsletter. Those numbers grow. I've got a new one coming out here in another week or so. So anyway, everybody, take care. Have a wonderful day and I look forward to talking to you soon.
What is Non-Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis – Creaky Joints, https://creakyjoints.org/education/what-is-non-radiographic-axial-spondyloarthritis/
FDA expands approval of secukinumab for nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis – Healio - https://www.healio.com/news/rheumatology/20200617/fda-expands-approval-of-secukinumab-for-nonradiographic-axial-spondyloarthritis
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WTC Points Table: How Loss To South Africa Has Dented India’s Chances In World Test Championship
India’s 7-wicket defeat to South Africa in the third Test at Newlands in Cape Town not only put their dream of winning a Test series against the Proteas away from home on hold but also dented their progress in the World Test Championship (WTC). India slipped to the fifth spot in the latest WTC points table after the Virat Kohli-led side lost the three-match series to South Africa 1-2 on Friday. South Africa, on the other hand, rose to the fourth spot with this crucial victory.
India have played nine Tests in the second cycle of WTC, winning four, losing three and drawing two. Despite winning the most number of Tests among all the teams so far in the WTC cycle, India are fifth because their PCT (percentage of points won) is lower than Sri Lanka, Australia, Pakistan and South Africa.
India’s PCT has now dropped to 49.07 from 55.21. India have also lost three points due to slow over-rate.
Sri Lanka top the chart with after two wins in two matches. With the victory in the last two Tests against India, South Africa have improved their PCT to 66.66.
Updated WTC points table
South Africa’s brilliant series win has placed them nicely in the latest #WTC23 standings ???? pic.twitter.com/SJkLtZVpUS
Australia, who are leading the Ashes 3-0 against England are at the second position with a PCT of 83.33.
Pakistan are at No.3 with a PCT of 75.00.
The top two teams will qualify for the final of WTC at the end of the cycle. In the previous edition, India had faced New Zealand in the final, which the latter won.
ICC had made a host of changes to the WTC points system after the first edition. According to the new rules, the number of Test wins and series victories does not determine the standings, the percentage of points won (PCT) does. It was done to do away with the disparity in the number of Tests each team is slated to play in the WTC cycle.
Each team is scheduled to play six series – three home and three away – but because the number of Tests in those series varies for each team, ICC came up with PCT.
In the new system, a team can earn 12 points with a Test win, six points are reserved for a tie and in case of a draw, both the teams get four points each. A point is deducted for every over a team falls short of the mandated over-rate.
Here is how PCT is calculated in WTC
India have played nine Tests in WTC so far. The maximum number of WTC points they could have earned were 108 (9*12) if they had won all of them but they won four, drew two, taking their total to 56. Three points were deducted as they were three overs short of the mandated over-rate. India currently have 53 WTC points. Hence, their PCT is 49.07, which ultimately determines the standing.
This article was originally published by Ndtv.com. Read the original article here.
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The first major commercial auction to take place after the EU referendum was held by Allsop Commercial on 6 July, and signs were that little had changed, with 82% of the lots on offer being sold at a total of over £63 million. Of those, 17 sold for in excess of £1 million each.
Highlights of the auction included a freehold corner building in London W2 comprising three shops and nine flats, which sold for £2.4 million (the highest sale price of the day) at a yield of 4.2% and a parade of six shops, six flats and the potential for further residential development in Fleet, Hampshire, which raised £1.695 million at a yield of 7.13%.
Partner and Auctioneer Duncan Moir commented: “Our auction attracted more attention than usual, with people watching closely for an indication of market sentiment following the EU referendum. Pleasingly it was very much business as usual, with confident and competitive bidding from the start.
“The motivations of our buyers do not appear to have changed, with properties that are well let, well located or offer potential to add value all continuing to attract strong interest. Encouragingly demand remains high, with 78% of buyers expressing a desire to buy again at auction in the next 12 months.”
Other notable lots on the day included a 45,519 square foot industrial unit in Newcastle-under-Lyme which raised £1.15 million at a yield of 11.1% and a Co-operative food store in London SW19 and let until 2030 at £57,00 per annum, which sold for £1.065 million at a yield of 5.06%
Allsop Commercial’s next auction will take place on Monday 10 October at The Berkeley, Wilton Place, London SW1X 7RL.
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Home / Interview / Felicia Day at Denver Comic Con 2017
Posted on August 16, 2017 April 7, 2018 by PopCult Leader — Leave a comment
Felicia Day, geek mom came to the mile high city and answered audience questions at Denver Comic Con 2017. During her 45min panel at Denver Comic Con 2017, Felicia Day regaled audience members with stories of what it’s like being a mom, crazy fan encounters, details of being on sets, and other geeky stories. Below is a transcription of her panel from Saturday, July 1, 2017. Hope you guys enjoy!
Felicia Day: Hi, you guys! Thank you so much for being here! Thanks for coming out to the con! Everyone’s been so friendly! I’ve heard some good stories except for these one woman… I don’t know are these women here? Okay, they came in line for their friend who couldn’t come meet me because her husband was treasure hunting and I was like is that a real thing? I don’t know are these women here? I just thought that was the weirdest thing, I’m always going to remember that incident and I just felt sorry for this poor woman who’s digging for treasure unless she finds it…
[Audience Laughter]
And then maybe she can meet me on later in like furs and…I dunno…a Rolls! Who knows? Hi, how is everybody doing today?
[Audience Cheering]
Listen, I don’t have a moderator or anything, so I’m just going to take your questions because I’m just going to…[lays down] and this is an outfit to be doing this. I mean this is a sweet ride, you guys. It’s a chaise lounge…the chaise lounge [in a French accent] Les Chaise Lounges…that’s the worst French accent you’ve ever heard. Also, these socks don’t match my shirt. Okay here’s the true story I had a pink shirt on today and I was really happy because I fit in my pre-pregnancy clothes…
[Audience Cheering and Clapping]
Thank you. I have a minion.
It was this color, it was a silk shirt and I still had to wear it and I did it, I put it on and then the baby needed to eat and I fed her and then I realized that she’s a messy eater and I had all sorts of things on my shirt that I didn’t want to see and yet the silk showed every single spot. So…Neat people need to wear silk, I need to wear Forever 21 nylon!
That’s my kind of style, so I’m sorry about this dress. Anyway so there are three people in the audience, they’re question people and I’m going to be answering your questions. There’s one—I don’t have my glasses on so you might have to yell at me? That dude and middle person and then one other red person, bright red shirt, blue shirt, some other shir.
There’s a third person maybe, rumor has it. So I’m just going to keep going back and forth and you know, just yell at me if I can’t see anything. I’ve also am being blinded that’s my excuse for not wearing my glasses. Anyway, first question?
Audience: It’s actually a Dr. Horrible shirt.
Felicia Day: I like that question.
Audience: Actually, it’s the first I have my wife’s permission to say this but you’re my all-time celebrity crush actually so…
Felicia Day: Awwww…
Audience: My question is why didn’t your character wind up with Zaboo’s character at the end of The Guild, I was sort of looking forward to that it never quite came up to be?
Felicia Day: Okay, first of all, I thought it was a Dr. Horrible question but… and I like your wife.
Audience: It’s a Dr. Horrible shirt, I have a Dr. Horrible shirt.
Felicia Day: Oh! You have a Dr. Horrible Shirt I can’t see that. Okay so I thank your wife, I’m her celebrity crush?
Audience: You’re my celebrity crush.
Felicia Day: Okay, that’s better than… somebody told me I was in their top five and I’m like ‘’I guess that’s okay’’ and then I…
I was like what and then who is in my top five right now because you have to re-evaluate every couple of years right? Like I think Angelina Jolie was on the list before and I’m like dunno… I’m kind of over her.
Not that she’s not a lovely person but I think Eva Green’s on that list now.
[Audience Cheers]
Yeah, don’t you think, right? And Ryan Gosling, he’s like he’s grandfathered in.
True story, I saw him at a pancake house in Los Angeles and I didn’t know he was Ryan Gosling, I went up to him and I was like hey were we in acting class together? And he was like ‘’Nope’’
That’s a good story.
Okay, to answer your question, I deliberately didn’t get them together at the end because you know I felt like I loved the fact that you don’t have to necessarily get a guy and a girl together romantically even if there’s tension.
I really do believe that because I think reinforcing that men and women can be friends versus always having something romantic between them is important in this world. I actually think that that’s one of the things that we should work on as a society making sure that even little boys and little girls know that they can play with people of the opposite gender because I think that kind of integration…
[Audience Clapping and Cheering]
…helps with social values.
It was probably just a simple [inaudible] things we go for. So, that was one of the reasons although you know it’s one of the things where maybe in ten years that like you know will be a situation because one of my best friends, she was friends with a guy in high school, they were just platonic friends and then fifteen years later, they got married. So you don’t know in this world but I really like that idea of them just being friends and kind of coming to a turn of saying ‘’okay, we kissed and it was freaking awful’’, like that was an awful kiss when I wrote it in I was like it has to be the worst kiss ever and I looked at Sandeep (Parikh) and I was like it’s going to be a terrible kiss because I never wanted to kiss you ever and he was like ‘’mutual!’’
So there was no acting in that awkward kiss, it was just like kissing your brother…
…it was really funny. And the same thing with Wil Wheaton. Like that was it! There was more, you know, between the two characters, there was more tension but I… It was like kissing my older brother. It was awkward, we were both like Ewww!
Anyway, next question. Over here with the red shirt.
Audience: Uhm, on the stage of Supernatural on the set, it’s kind of legendary for pranks. What pranks have been played on you?
Felicia Day: Okay, I have to say that I didn’t even understand the legendary of the prank-ness because Jared (Padalecki) and Jensen (Ackles) were the best like they were the most gentlemanly gentleman to me over the years. So, and then one of the last episodes I did I met Misha (Collins) and he was…
I was on set with him and I was like holy moly dude, you are not happy, you should not be happy right now there are so pranking you! It was so funny… I think they’d given him a wedgie…
[Audience Roar]
…off camera and then there was one scene we were trying and then Jared came up with a wet willie and he’s like… And I’m trying to, like, act and he’s trying to act and then especially when they’re off camera, they just keep going like…
…and I say he’s supposed to be really serious and I almost cried and I’m like “How do you do this?” And he’s like [in a serious tone] ‘’I don’t know.’’
So for the record, they never pranked me although they did kind of like gently make fun of me when I was, like, a total dork which I do well, so that was more of our dynamic than being pranked because they are such gentlemen and just fantastic guys, I encourage anybody if you ever meet them that you do because they really are just gentlemen. Yes, thank you for that question. Mystery third person oh… another blue shirt, blue shirt lady. Are you a lady, I can’t see?
I’m sorry, I like you. Hi!
Audience: So besides the treasure hunter, what was your weirdest fan experience?
Felicia Day: Ever? Oh gosh, uh…
Wow! I wrote about this in my book a lot, I’ve had really strange experiences that people would have me write on their bodies and they would tattoo over them? Which to me a tattoo is like such… I have never had a tattoo but I’m jealous of everyone I see with tattoos because obviously I have commitment issues and they don’t.
But I’m always like one week I’m like I’ll get a butterfly then I’m like ‘’No, butterflies are stupid’’ death to all butterflies, then I’ll go like ‘’I want a ferret just because it’s funny’’ and then I’m like ‘’you want a joke tattoo, that’s a terrible idea! I want a fox because it’s my totem animal and I’m like ‘’totem animals are stupid, what are you doing’’ although I think I was reincarnated as a prey animal versus a predator, just as a personality…
…I don’t like it, but I just want to be honest about it.
So the only tattoo I would get will probably be my daughter’s name but then I’ve got several people who got tattoos of my signature on them and like I am honored, but I’m still nervous when I do it. I’m like you need to do a beautiful… you know swoop it more, swoop and then I’m terrified. It’s the most terrifying thing I do at cons and people always ask me to do it three or four times and what if they didn’t like it? And then I always am like ‘’well, if I draw it at this angle, if they want to back out, they can just paint over it and make it a heart.
So, I give them a little out, if they grow tired of me. They can spell my name wrong, no I scrawled it. It’s not a real signature, I mean my dad’s a doctor, I learned well how not to sign it.
Next question.
Audience: Hello!
Felicia Day: Hi, and your puppy what is your puppy’s name?
Audience: This is Leia. She’s a service dog.
Felicia Day: Leia, hi. She has buns like Princess Leia, great.
Audience: I’m actually asking what you suggest for somebody who wants to go into acting specifically, someone who might have a disability?
Felicia Day: That’s a really good question. You know acting is a really fun profession when you act, but then between the times when you don’t have a job it’s horrible [Felicia Laughs], so I guess my best advice would be to make sure you love it as a profession and as a business versus just as a hobby, because if you love just doing acting, I would recommend you just stay wherever you live and just do community theatre or do show booths or local things just as a hobby because making what you love into a business sometimes makes you lose your love of it and so just really evaluate honestly, like do I love this as a lifestyle or do I just want to make this my career and know that most of my time will not be acting, it’ll be trying to get work.
So that would be my first step and my second step would be “make sure you get really experienced and do something locally before you move to a big city” because yes it’s a lot more work in like Atlanta and L.A. and New York but it’s very competitive with people who have been doing it since they were children. So it’s harder to break-in, so getting more experience and tape on yourself before you move is probably my biggest advice.
And just always—don’t just be an actor, have different things you can draw from because even if my dad made me get a math degree when I was in college before I could move to LA to be an actress, I feel like doing things that were not acting related in college really helped me have things to draw up on and do different characters as I went forward because you know, like my favourite characters are computer programmer and part who plays the violin and those skills don’t have anything to do with being an actor.
So, that’s what I would recommend to you and as far as disabilities, you know it is tougher, you’ll have fewer opportunities but I think people are being a lot more progressive in casting now and being a little more open minded and ready for the part to be more diverse. Hopefully, the opportunities will be more now than what it was in the past.
So, good luck.
Audience: Thank you.
Felicia Day: You’re welcome.
[Audience Clapping]
Thank you. That’s really good. Okay, next question. Over here.
Audience: Hi there
Felicia Day: Hi
Audience: First of all, I just want to say I first heard of you from The Guild which was an amazing show.
Felicia Day: Thank you very much. It’s our tenth anniversary you guys!
Can you believe that? I still don’t believe that ten years have passed since I shot in my room… in my garage. I mean it’s crazy.
Audience: Definitely. I wanted to ask you a little bit about the creation process. That was the first show that I watched that had a really geek pulse to it. So how did you create it?
Felicia Day: I mean it was really interesting, the whole process never…. There’s a big section in my book where I wrote about it because I have never been a filmmaker, I was always an actor but I was really frustrated with my life because like I just told you about acting; you don’t necessarily get the perks you want, you get the perks you look like and you get told that you are a certain way when you don’t feel like that inside and you kind of have to conform to what other people see you as and you don’t work that much necessarily. You know it’s a very up and down career. So, I got very frustrated and decided to write something to make work for myself. I really thought it would be a TV show but I forced myself to quit WoW (World of Warcraft) because I was playing like twelve hours a day! Yay!
It’s a pretty good game, you guys! But I had to stop.
Then I had a small support group of women that I joined. This women’s support group which sounds dorky but we met every week and kind of shared the things we were working on and our victories and our sort of failures and it really helped me get off my butt and get that script written. And from that from there our friend Camini who was part of that group, that encouraged me to make it as a web series because at the time, YouTube was just starting and she was like this seems like something—you know gamers are online so it seems like they might like this and it literally just happened then and yeah we had to invent a lot of things as we went along and there really weren’t any web series back there at the time and the one thing that kept us going through all the tough times because we shot at our house for six years you know– it’s always home grown was the fact that I really… that we were touching people’s lives in a way even if we were just making a comedy but it meant something to people. That, therefore, gave me validation and made me even want to make it even more. So actually, I owe it to all of you guys that I’m here and I kept going with the show because meeting people, especially at conventions, made me look at the hard problem and overcome it verses like getting discouraged because I knew you guys were out there to watch the show. So thank you very much!
Middle question!
Audience: Hi, I had no idea you were going to be here!
Felicia Day: Were you just sitting for another prank panel?
Audience: For the convention, I never look at the website because I’m lazy, so I saw you here I was like ‘’Oh my God, this is going to be like the best weekend of my life.
Felicia Day: Okay, I like you but, you might need to plan ahead a little bit more!
Audience: I have two questions for you. First one is what’s your favorite scene to ever record for The Guild and my second one is “How on earth did you quit WoW, because I can’t click it…quit it!?”
Felicia Day: Hmmm… those are good questions. Okay, my favorite scenes for The Guild were the scenes where we were all in person together and I think there’s one in like season one where we are like in the booth at Cheesy Beards and we are just meeting each other, that would be my favorite… because when we sat down altogether and shot together, I felt like ‘’oh there’s something special here’’ we really getting along really well.
And I guess the other one… my favourite just inside in season five, that we did a whole season at a convention and there were a lot of Steam Punks scenes with the Steampunk and Doug Jones and my friend Maurissa Tancharoen who is a… show writer on Agents of Shield she wrote Dr. Horrible one of the writers in there and Jillian Armanante a friend of mine and Clara, so they had all this Steampunk like storyline that they did and that’s my favourite because I just love the aesthetic of Steampunk and they were a really snooty and they looked down upon her which you know not all Steampunk people do but I just imagined it would be funny.
They had their booth in the middle of the convention but they wouldn’t let me get in it…
It was really funny. So those were my favorite ones and as far as quitting WoW, you know I think people look at video game addiction and are like ‘’oh video games are terrible, online games are terrible’’ and I don’t believe that at all, I never want that to be represented. I wanted to represent gaming the way it meant to me which was; it enriched my life, it made me connect with people that meant a lot to me in my life. Codex’s struggle with that ultimately led to her getting out of the funk and meeting… because she met her friends in real life from online. I just… that was kind of a message to The Guild that I wanted to convey.
So if you can’t stop playing WoW, is it affecting your real life? Are there other things you would rather be doing and maybe you could do a little bit of soul searching about that like where do I want to work on that’s more long term? Like a long journey or becoming a writer or an alto singer, I don’t know, like do all those things at once and call me!
But I think sometimes we look to immediate gratification to delayed gratification. Do you know what I’m saying? It’s easier to play Wow for two hours than like maybe work on a drawing that you’re going to be bad at but in five years you’d be amazing and you might be like you know a professional artist or like a hobbyist. So, I would just like challenge you to maybe find that one thing that you want to become good at eventually and then you reward yourself with WoW if you do a little bit of it. So one hour for self-improvement, five hours for WoW! See?
[Audience Laughter and Clapping]
Audience: Hi.
Felicia Day: [In Deep Voice] Yo!
Audience: I know this is kind of a question you might not want to answer but who is the best singer on the Supernatural cast?
Felicia Day: That’s a really good question. I mean Jensen is an amazing singer so if you’ve ever heard him sing, right?
I’ve never heard Jared try to sing, I’ve never heard Misha try to sing, Mark Shepard…, I’ve never heard any of the other guys sing. I know Mark Shepherd is an amazing drummer and so they put a lot in the supernatural convention, they had like Saturday Night kind of band thing. So I would say Jensen probably because he’s just extraordinary…and me!
I’m a really good singer, I mean Jensen is better but I do sing. I sing on the new Mystery Science Theatre, did anyone see that song?
In episode four, I do a duet with Neil Patrick Harris so it was like a little Dr. Horrible reunion so if you have Netflix, check it out Episode Four. It’s really funny too. Thank you for your question. Okay, right again, right-hand person. Yes, you.
Audience: Hi Felicia, my name is Shannon.
Felicia Day: Hi.
Audience: The Guild was my favorite thing ever but…
Felicia Day: Thank you!
Audience: Then you brought Mystery Science Theatre back, so what’s your favorite awful movie?
Felicia Day: Thank you. Okay, first of all, I didn’t bring it back personally although he evolved in it and then… guys conventions are literally my favorite thing because they are so much a part of my life. I was at Salt Lake City, Utah at a convention…
[Audience Howling]
…and it was really good to be at that convention and I was in the Green Room and I saw Joel Hodgson back there at the Green Room and I got so… like I don’t get star struck by many people like if Chris Evans was there I’ll be like “oh it’s Chris Evans…”
…and when I saw Joel I was like oooooh because Mystery Science Theatre meant so much to me and my brother as kids. So I want—and my brother’s a superfan like a super super-fan, so I was like ‘’oh I’m going to go take a selfie and rub it in my brother’s face…’’
…like I wasn’t trying to be nice, I was being not.
Anyway, so I went to take a selfie with him and get to talk with him and he was like ‘’Oh yes, I heard about your show and cut to a month later he said you want to be in Mystery Science Theatre – The reboot? I was like [Inhales Deeply] “Ooooohh whaaat?”
Just like that guys, it was readable whaaaat… no, it was an email and I did that to the screen anyway.
So clearly it means a lot to me. It’s just—I got to write on the season too, and you know I love writing and acting I just don’t ever want to do only one so the fact that I get to write the show even though I had to watch Cry Wilderness ten to fifteen times which is one of the worst episodes I’ve ever seen, Episode two season [Bleh] you know, terrible.
It was such a great dream come true and my worst movie ever seen is called The Wraith and it has Charlie Sheen in it…
…has anyone seen this movie? Yes or no?
Audience: Yes
Felicia Day: That movie is butt. It is so bad, Charlie Sheen plays an aggressive car alien man who, like, instead of like… it’s just a sob story because they show this nude scene and it’s like ‘’why should I give…okay so wonderful, that’s natural’’
It’s terrible and it’s really extra traumatic because of the kind of male female dynamic there is like… it’s just terrible but such a bad film I keep pushing it on Joel and I pray one day he gets to it if we ever get to it. So it’s repugnant!
It’s a terrible terrible movie if you want to watch it anyway.
Next question, middle person. middle… yes, all the way up there. Still, don’t know if you’re a man or a woman. I can’t see you, you’re a blob, it’s not personal like you’re a human blob.
Mic Person: [Female Voice] We’ll talk when I’m on stage.
Audience: I’m a boy.
Congrats on your baby, I love Dr. Horrible!
Felicia Day: Thank you very much.
Audience: What was your most memorable part about filming part three in that?
Felicia Day: Part three? Okay, that’s really interesting. Part three was trying not to breathe when I was being carried out…
…or blink my eyes when I was dead… it’s really hard to be dead you guys. I challenge you… okay, have a friend take an iPhone and tell him okay pretend to play dead, and have him see if your eyes don’t twitch or not. They will twitch. I’m a twitchy person, I’m a twitchy lady, twitchy. So that was really challenging for me and then I think my favorite thing during that filming was, I think it was in episode two, the laundry scene was that episode two… I think. And so the laundry scene is a great awesome scene where we’re all singing together. It was a scene where Neil Patrick Harris is in episode one, he was singing about me but he’s not talked to me yet and there’s a whole sequence where everyone’s closing the dryer together in sequence? There was one extra who literally could not do it right. In fact, he was telling Joss ‘’that’s not the way you should do it’’ and I’m like ‘’what?’’ So it just became this crazy struggle to get everyone to close dryer doors and I was like this is show business…
…it was pretty fun, anyway. Next question. Over here… blue shirt, blue blob.
Audience: Thank you for being here with us I know we all really appreciate it.
Felicia Day: I can see you better. I can see you now. Sorry, I love you.
Mic Person: I love you too. Okay.
Audience: I want to ask you about your time you on Eureka
Felicia Day: Yes!
Audience: I know that show is a little crazy and a little out there but a lot of the times I think that at the heart, it’s just about the relationships that are built between the characters that were really meaningful, watch people grow and change and quick kind of spoiler alert just at the end of that in kind of some ways we did really like watch the town die and kind of fall apart there.
Felicia Day: Yeah!
Audience: So what was it like to be part of that thing and then kind of have to walk away from it? Kind of what were the relationships like on that set?
Felicia Day: I mean it’s always really sad when you end any participation in a show because unlike a movie where you know there’s a beginning, middle, and end, the show normally you don’t know when you’re going to stop and you create a family, all the best ones, some of them you’re like ‘’get me off this set, these people are terrible’’ but most of the time, I’m very lucky to have been on sets that are kind of families and that means a lot to me. I don’t want to just ever say that this is my job, I want to say it’s my passion and that this is my family and that’s in anything I do. So that particular family was an amazing one and I love Collin and Sally and Neil, Wil…Wil Wheaton, when he was on all the episodes with us. It just became… I think I was on almost two seasons for that show. It was really sad because they picked it up and they cancelled it so they had to like put six episodes into one to end the show, and I’m just grateful that they got an ending but yes you’re right it was kind of rushed to the point where it felt a little more down than it could and I think that was not the meaning it was just to give everybody a lot of closure and I really appreciate it when I hear people talk about that show because I think they were really smart, I think they had a lot of great characters who were scientist to represent other people that science is cool or every week it goes horribly wrong and you have to solve the problem. So either way…
…get on that science guys. Next question, right here. Oh okay, you’re far back enough that you’re a blob.
Audience: Hi, I was wondering what your favorite part of filming MST3K was.
Felicia Day: Oh my gosh, my favorite part was… I was still worried because I was pregnant at the time, I was six months pregnant. I was worried but then they made that great coat for me, guys you couldn’t tell at all, it was amazing. So that was one of my favorite parts, cause tailoring! My other favorite part was just being on set with Joel, if you’re a fan of Mystery Science Theatre, Joel’s voice is kind of like in your brain it’s such a like, “Bill hey” he’s very laid back and everything’s so… I, like, be on set have him come on like “Hey Felicia, what’s going on?”, I’ll be like [Inhale] he’s in my brain, he’s in my…[Felicia Laughs]
That was the weird part because his voice really meant a lot to me as a kid and having him be in your life is awesome and just seeing the new cast gel, you know it was big shoes to fill when you’re like continuing that show that’s so iconic for a lot of people and Joel really took it to heart to really recreate the show in the way that it was faithful to the old but like, really we re-invented the new. I think he really did a great job, I was just like knocking on leatherette that we get another season
Yeah, anyway.
Next question! hi.
Audience: Hi! You’re delightful by the way, you’re just a wonderful person
Felicia Day: Oh thank you.
Audience: More Mystery Science Theatre because it’s great. You’re working with one of the best comedians I think exists, Patton Oswalt.
Felicia Day: Oh, have you been to one of his shows?
Audience: Not live. I’ve seen him online.
Felicia Day: Yes, I’ve seen him online I guess I should probably ask him for a ticket or something.
I never pull strings you know even when the barista recognizes me I never ask for a free coffee even though I kind of want one inside [Felicia Laughs] Anyway finish your question.
Audience: Just what’re some of the best things that have happened with Patton on set or in writing? Just what’s it like?
Felicia Day: Well we didn’t write together, we wrote remotely but we did act together and that was really intimidating because as you said he is one of the most brilliant, insightful people I’ve ever met and just hilarious and his book is amazing and he’s just a great person and I was intimidated but when I got on set with him, BAM, there we just hit it off like sometimes like sometimes you just hit it off with somebody you’re like “Woah, I like this guy!” And we just started riffing and we used some improv and like… you know that’s when you feel like work isn’t work when you’re just having a lot of fun and that I think with him especially it was one of the easiest things to sort of transition into kind of work to play that I ever had. Yes, I would like to recommend watching his stand up because stand up is really hard and you have to be really brave and you also need to have a point of view that’s really solid of life and I really admire him, he’s one of my favorites. So, Thank you. Next question over here. Oh, I’m so… I’m going to have to buy coffee or a drink. Hi.
Audience: What’s your favorite part of supernatural?
Felicia Day: My favorite part of Supernatural is my novelty t-shirts.
‘Cause Charlie always had some great t-shirts and I loved going to Vancouver because they have amazing Sushi there. If you like Sushi, take a vacation to Vancouver. Then I also just loved being on set with the guys because they showed me that they are such gentlemen but they also are just kind people. They treat the set like a family like sometimes actors don’t talk as much to the crew who are on… you know making the show happen and they are friends with all the crew and everyone knows them and they hang out with them. Everyone’s equal on set which I think is really important because, on a set, everybody’s job is important. If you’re the craft service person you got to feed people, if you’re the clerk you have to like put a c-stand up and make sure it doesn’t fall on someone’s head, if you’re the DP, you got to make people look good so everybody on the film set has a very important role, but sometimes everyone doesn’t get treated equally and that’s what I love about Jared and Jensen because everyone is equal in their eyes. I think that’s awesome. Thank you, that’s a good question!
Next question over here on my right? Okay good.
Audience: Hi Felicia.
Felicia Day: Hello.
Audience: Thank you. I have a question and it is my duty as a Guild Master in World Warcraft to ask you this: “Do you support legacy servers?”
Felicia Day: Am I going to get in trouble if I say one thing or the other because [audience laughter] don’t worry about it? I mean I feel like, I understand the two sides of the coin you know… so I have to say I support the fans?
I’m like, I feel like tiptoeing through a death’s deal kind of situation here.
tut tut tut tukudukutuludukudu…
I feel like… oh yes, okay I’ll say yes, that’s fine.
I mean I don’t know. I don’t know enough about it but I think that the fans are… here’s the thing, your avatar is you. Like I feel so strongly about my character, like, I haven’t logged on in a couple of years, but if something happened to it, I’d cry.
So like that is a projection of me, so I’d understand why people would feel really really strongly about it and whatever you know doesn’t let that sense of identity go away is important. So don’t quote me on it.
Okay, next question.
du du du du du du du…
Audience: Hi, I was wondering if you really played video games on The Guild while you were recording?
Felicia Day: That’s a really good question. We didn’t really play games because the actors had to remember their dialogue, most often they had to dialogue taped up where the screen would be!
Audience: So I have another question.
Felicia Day: Okay.
Audience: So my mom is a teacher and I really love your autobiography…
Felicia Day: Thank you so much.
Audience: So I was wondering if you like being home schooled or if you didn’t.
Felicia Day: There’s a lot of home schooled people here, everybody show of hands…
Colorado has the most people who are homeschooled that I’ve ever met, I think it’s really awesome. I just had a baby, I think about that a lot; like was home schooling good for me or was it bad for me and I feel like you know I’m the person I am because of the way I was raised and I don’t look back at anything with regret anymore because you know, I know it’s cheesy but I actually used to regret everything I did and I realized that if you spend your time regretting things you can’t move forward and then reinvent what you want going forward. Also if I did anything different, then I wouldn’t have my baby. I wouldn’t have that specific baby. So everything I’ve ever done in my life is adding up to the right thing. But you know as far as school goes, I love the fact that I was free to sort of explore what I loved and if I found something I loved, I would just do that. I also loved the fact that I grew up not thinking there were any differences between me and anybody else as far as like abilities in certain subjects that people sometimes discourage girls in. And I didn’t ever think that science fiction or math or computer sciences were nerdy in the sense so sometimes when you get labeled as different you might not do that because your peers say it’s weird and then you stop doing it even though you really love it. So I never had that kind of peer pressure and I really appreciate that. But I also want to expose her to as many things as possible because in school they can expose you to more things and you can figure out… you know you might ever stumble across geology and that might be the thing you love more than anything. So I would love to maybe… I think if you’re in the right school, it’s perfect. But if you’re homeschooled, I think it’s kind of a great opportunity to really specialize in the thing you love and find the thing you love and read a lot. I used to read twenty hours, you know like two three books a week. So I guess I’m rambling.
…but I’m glad I was homeschooled because I think it made me weird and weird is your superpower. So whatever makes you a little bit different…
[Audience Cheering & Clapping]
Thank you for your question. Next question. Yeah, middle person.
Audience: Hi there, going off of what you were just saying, you mentioned a math degree, I have a degree in biology. What would you say as far as advice and encouragement on being role models in our fields and for girls interested in STEM?
Felicia Day: That’s a great question. You know I think a lot of emphases is placed upon girls… I think it goes back to that comment I made earlier I think it’s really important. And I read this great article on the New York Times about how do we raise feminist boys and it’s a really great article if you want to look it up and I think it applies to both genders because of a lot of times, it’s a lot of stereotypes that are put upon. You know children, they don’t know anything. If we all started floating in space, my daughter will think ‘’Oh, people float’’. So, you believe whatever is in front of you as a child and you’re literally forming their perception of life as they’re growing up and that’s why it’s so important I think what you expose them to and what thoughts and principles that you expose them to when they’re growing up because that will be things that they carry through in life.
And I think especially when you have… something in that article said that you know as early as preschool boys or girls start getting separated by gender. You know girls on the right and boys on the left and that simple act establishes in their mind that girls are different from boys. And I think it’s unnecessary because that’s why the geek culture is because as men and women we can come together and share a love of like you know…uh…Farscape [audience hooting] or Mystery Science Theatre or Fall Out, games, and we don’t care! All that stuff we’ve been told to perceive about the way somebody else looks compared to us it goes out of our head because we are loving something together.
And that really is I think the key to fostering you know interest in anything. So I think you’re just showing up and representing, going and advocating to girls and boys in an almost agnostic way, I think it goes a long way because you are a woman who is interested in biology but talking to boys and girls about biology will show either sex that that is a thing they can do. And I think that’s why it’s important in media to represent people of different races and the opposite sex in traditional roles that we want to break into so that people who think ‘’Oh, the scientists on TV are all men or you know all women are marketing people’’, there are certain clichés you see on TV that doesn’t need to be there and just by being exposed to them, there’s a possibility it might interest somebody in that field. So anyway, I can go on and on about this but I feel really passionately about it because you shouldn’t shame somebody, you should encourage them and I think that’s important.
Mic Person: [Male Voice] Top on the right.
Felicia Day: Yeah, which right?
Audience: Up here.
Mic Person: Your left.
Felicia Day: Yeah, you.. okay. Where?
Audience: Way over here, on the right.
Felicia Day: On my right or left?
Audience: You’re right? I’m on the left I think?
Felicia Day: I started sweating you guys. I was like you just talked for a really long time about gender issues and then you can’t see anything this is really getting boring.
Audience: Okay so my question actually has kind of a spoiler for season twelve of supernatural so if you haven’t watched it, plug your ears. Well in the very last episode they get into a kind of like the parallel universes and I know in another panel Jared and Jensen had mentioned they will like to maybe bring characters back? So I was wondering if you would be open to bringing Charlie back?
Felicia Day: I mean Yes! Of course!
Felicia Day: I think it would be so fantastic to be part of that family again and I feel like I’m always part of that family which is great and that’s the kind of show I’d love to be on that you have a fan family, but I would love to revisit Charlie. I think you know whatever the writers may need to do with the season I totally, you know that’s what they need to do. I’m totally on board with that. If they need to bring me back in a parallel universe because she’s a badass and she has stories yet to be told. I would love to do that. If they call me, I’ll be there man!
[Audience Screaming]
You’re way in the back and I can’t see you I’m so sorry I’m going to wear my glasses next time I don’t care if it’s vain or not…stop it Felicia.
Next question. I can see you.
Yes, I just can’t see…anyway hi.
Audience: Hi, we have two questions for you. The first one is, of course, you’re a very impactful actress and writer and you play a very important LGBTQ character on a very famous show and join Misha on non-profits so if you could start a non-profit what would it be for?
Felicia Day: Oh wow, that’s a really good question. You know I guess…I mean I love animals. I think it’s really important to help animals because they can’t really help themselves but now that I’m a mom, I would like to start an organization that encourages girls to find their passions especially I guess I’ll just talk about gender roles but I do think sometimes girls need encouragement in certain areas like STEM. It would be nice to be able to encourage that or I’ll just with geek culture, I would like to be able to encourage girls who weren’t exposed to things like that to be exposed to them. Especially on the computer side, entrepreneurial things like that, I think it’s really important and then mix the animals.
Animals and entrepreneurship…
…clearly I haven’t thought this through you guys. I’m sweating more!
Felicia Day: I see you, see I see everything up to the back okay? It was a trip of the eye that I couldn’t see all the people back there I thought it was just a sea of awesomeness.
Hi, back row!
Audience: Hi, my question to you since you were in Librarians, Supernatural, Eureka, is there any Sci-fi show you would like to get onto an episode of like Doctor Who, Star Trek, Discovery when it airs.
Well Doctor Who is a British show and I’m not British so that’s, like, a long shot guys let’s just not even talk about it.
You guys all want to be my agent, what’s going on?
There are a couple of shows that I really love. I’d love to be on The Magicians because I think it’s a great show!
I love The Expanse actually I think Syfy is doing a better job lately because I think they’ve got some really good shows out there. I would love to be on Crazy Ex Girlfriend.
I mean I’d like to be on Game of Thrones but again British shows where I’ll just be a corpse!
I was bound to be a corpse someday!
And Star Trek: Discovery, I mean come on that trailer looks bonkers, I need to be on that show!
I’m not quite in unitard shape right now after my baby, but I can get there guys! Oh, I could get there!
I’ll have to cut my daily cookie off and my daily cupcake and my daily you know Tres Leches (cake) and…
Okay, one more minute, we have one more question. Do I have to stop at the time? Okay hi.
Audience: Hi. In the back on your right.
Audience: So my question…
Felicia Day: [In a deep voice] I see you.
Audience: I see you too.
Felicia Day: It’s the glare. Anyway, let’s not talk about… I’ll blog about it later.
Audience: Okay so my question is about Dragon Age 2. I know that you had your own elf character in a DLC, I want to know what that is even like. Like how cool is it to get an elf character in a game and just see yourself as an elf running around and…
Felicia Day: It was amazing, it was amazing!
Audience: Did you get to interact with all of the other characters in…
Felicia Day: Yes, that was a really interesting process. So they approached me to do a short film and of course I wrote a six episode part where I created Tallis as a character because she was my favourite character, she’s a rogue, she’s an elf, she has a chip on her shoulder and so that was always a dream for me to be able to play that kind of character. And so they loved her and I wrote the six episode web series on a very low budget unfortunately but I wrote that at the same time everybody at the DLC and I had to go to Vancouver to do motion capture to be Tallis. So I didn’t actually interact with any of the other actors when you do voice recording, you generally don’t interact with other actors live, you generally record your lines and they put them together later. So I didn’t actually interact with any of the other actors but it was so amazing to be a part of a franchise that I admire so much. I think the writing on that, it’s some of the best writing on video games and the whole process was really gratifying to be in something that was a web series and a DLC… I think nobody has even done that since. Take the characters from a web series and put them into a DLC so you know I love video games, I love being able to do artistic things in the world of video games as well as enjoy that I play them all the time.
Anyway do I have to stop? It says it’s 1:40. Can I do another one? Two minutes. Oh two minutes, okay. Hi
Audience: My question is about Supernatural, out of the whole Supernatural cast, who was your favorite person?
Felicia Day: Why would you ask me that? If I had four children be like what’s your favorite chold. Child? Chold? What is that?
Let me rephrase that, clearly I need some chocolate. It’s really hard man, honestly I’ve had so many good conversations with Jensen about just life and then Jared is so funny, I’ve had so many jokes and I laughed with him so much and Misha, I didn’t get to interact with as much as a person but I do love hanging out with him. You know, and we didn’t get to act on screen as much but just off camera his passion and he’s best wishes and the good thing he does… I’m going to figure out this charity thing guys and I’ll tweet this later because I would love to have a better answer than the way I answered that. The fact that he really set a bar for charity and fun and artistry all together, I think it’s brilliant and I love what he does and Mark Shepard just fun to hang out with something, I guess, I’m not going to spoil anything. Anyway, he’s amazing, I’ve known him for like ten years from my convention so I love all of them and you cannot quote me any other way.
One more question because I think we have twelve more seconds. No more? Okay, thank you so… well, you’re waving. Okay
Audience: Hi, if you could write a second season for Dr. Horrible, how would you write Penny into it?
Felicia Day: Okay I could be a robot, I could be a zombie…
I could be my twin…
[Audience Laughing and Clapping]
…or I could be a shape shifting demon.
I would scan that one out, that’s not a good one, that was a bad pitch. Anyway, thank you guys for coming!
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3 Mar 2016 : Column 43WS
Thursday 3 March 2016
Business, Innovation and Skills
Business Impact Target
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade (Sajid Javid): I am today publishing the Government’s target in respect of the economic impact of new regulation on business for this Parliament, along with related matters as required under section 21 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (“the Act”). The current Enterprise Bill will extend the scope of the target to include statutory regulators, as well as Ministers. This statement takes account of that proposed extension.
Business impact target[1]
The Government’s target is for a saving of £10 billion to business and voluntary or community bodies from qualifying measures that come into force or cease to be in force during this Parliament.
Interim target[2]
The interim target covers the savings to be achieved from qualifying measures that come into force or cease to be in force in the first three years of this Parliament. The Government’s interim target is a saving of £5 billion.
Qualifying regulatory provisions[3]
Under the Act, the measures that are in scope for the business impact target are described as “regulatory provisions”. That includes both legislation, and the activities of regulators—meaning Ministers, and in due course statutory regulators.
As with the one-in, two-out system that operated in the last Parliament, the Government must designate the categories of regulatory provision that are to be scored against the target (“qualifying regulatory provisions”). Qualifying regulatory provisions are those that do not fall within any of the exclusions set out below.
(a) Exclusions carried over from last Parliament
A number of the categories of regulatory provision that were excluded from the one-in, two-out system in the last Parliament will also be excluded from the business impact target. The exclusions are:
Regulatory provisions that implement new or changed obligations arising from European Union regulations, decisions and directives, and other changes to international commitments and obligations, except in cases of gold-plating.
Regulatory provisions specifically relating to civil emergencies.
Regulatory provisions concerning fines and penalties, and redress and restitution.
Regulatory provisions that promote competition (where these result in an increase in a direct net burden on business).
Regulatory provisions that enable delivery of large infrastructure projects.
Regulatory provisions that implement changes to the classification and scheduling of drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, or to national minimum wage hourly rates, where these follow the recommendations of the relevant independent advisory body.
Regulatory provisions relating to systemic financial risk.
(b) New exclusions applied in this Parliament
The remaining exclusions arise from the extension of the target to include regulator activity, and one legislative measure (the national living wage) where the offsetting measures—changes to national insurance and tax—are also excluded from the target under the Act.
In order to capture all relevant regulator actions the statutory definition of a regulatory provision is drafted in such a way that every action of a regulator in the discharge of its statutory duties potentially falls within scope. The exclusions are intended to ensure that the qualifying provisions scored under target are focused on regulator policies and practices rather than day-to-day activities. Certain activities related to economic regulation are also excluded. The exclusions are:
Regulator casework including specific investigation and enforcement activity, individual licence decisions, and individual advice.
Education, communications activities, and promotional campaigns by regulators, including media campaigns, posters, factsheets, bulletins, letters, websites, and information/advice helplines.
Policy development by regulators, including formal and informal consultations, policy reviews, and ad hoc information requests.
Changes to the organisation and management of regulators, except for those resulting from legislative changes or another policy change that is a qualifying regulatory provision.
Regulatory provisions applying to certain business activities of operator(s) of a network or system where the operator(s) are deemed to be a monopoly or to have significant market power, specifically:
regulatory provisions that concern the terms upon which access is provided to those networks and systems; and
regulatory provisions that concern effective network and systems operation and co-ordination.
Regulatory provisions that are price controls, except for the introduction of price controls to previously unregulated activities, or removal of pre-existing price controls.
Changes to industry codes, except those arising from regulator action or new legislation.
Regulatory provisions that introduce the national living wage[4],
Methodology for the assessment of the business impact target[5]
The impact of each qualifying measure will be assessed on the basis of its equivalent annual net direct cost to business (EANDCB) measured in 2014 prices and with a 2015 present value base year. The contribution to the business impact target will be the sum of the EANDCB over the first five years for which the measure will be in force, or the sum of the EANDCB over the full lifetime of the measure for measures that are in force for less than five years.
The EANDCB is an estimate of the average annual net direct costs to business in each year that the measure is in force. It is calculated as the present value of the net direct cost to business divided by the sum of the discount factors appropriate for the length of time the measure is in force. The discount rate used is determined by the Green Book.
Direct impacts are those that can be identified as resulting directly from the implementation or removal/simplification of the measure.
[1] As required under section 21(1)(a) of the Act.
[2] As required under section 21 (2) of the Act.
[4] Future annual changes to the national living wage that do not follow the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission will be in scope for the target.
[5] As required under section 21(3)(b) of the Act.
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Green Investment Bank
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade (Sajid Javid): In June 2015, I announced plans to move UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) into the private sector. The company’s success means there is strong market interest in GIB from private sector investors and 100% Government funding is no longer needed.
The company fully supports this move which will give GIB the freedom it needs to grow and increase its impact with access to much more capital than if it stayed in Government hands. And it will further demonstrate that green investment can be profitable for mainstream investors and is not just the preserve of Government.
Today, I am formally launching a sale of GIB by inviting expressions of interest from bidders. Any parties interested in acquiring GIB are now invited to come forward. Interested parties will need to respond to a bidder information form which is being published today on the gov.uk website.
I am today laying a report to Parliament on the proposed disposal of shares in GIB with information on the kind of disposal intended, the expected timescale for the disposal, and our objectives for the disposal. This report is provided in fulfilment of provisions in the Enterprise Bill and is also being provided to Ministers in the devolved Administrations.
The report includes details of our plans to create a special share in GIB as part of the sale process. This will provide protection of the company’s green purposes following a sale by granting the independent holder of the share the right to approve or reject any proposal to change the green purposes of GIB. I first announced these plans in Parliament on 2 February, when opening Second Reading of the Enterprise Bill. Details were also set out in the Government’s response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s December 2015 report on the future of GIB which was published the same day and further details are provided in letters from GIB chairman, Lord Smith of Kelvin and from Baroness Neville Rolfe, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills—copies of which will be laid in the Libraries of both Houses.
Successor Submarine Assessment Phase
The Minister for Defence Procurement (Mr Philip Dunne): The Government were elected with a manifesto commitment to build a new fleet of four successor
ballistic missile submarines. On 23 November 2015, the Government announced in the strategic defence and security review (SDSR) that the Successor submarine programme would cost £31 billion, and that the first boat was expected to enter service in the early 2030s. We will also set a contingency of £10 billion.
As part of his statement on the SDSR, the Prime Minister announced that we needed to implement a number of changes to the Successor submarine programme, which included plans to invest more than £600 million in the design phase.
I am today confirming our plans to invest £642 million to supplement the current Successor assessment phase of £3.3 billion. This will bring the total assessment phase commitment to £3.9 billion as announced in the SDSR, and will provide a sound foundation for the next phase where we will be taking a staged investment approach.
The assessment phase has identified the need to invest now to prepare for an efficient and effective submarine build. The £642 million will be spent on facilities at BAE systems in Barrow, essential long lead items for the four submarines and the nuclear propulsion programme.
In the UK, a number of key suppliers directly support the delivery of the Successor submarine programme who, in turn, depend heavily on a network of hundreds of sub-contractors. The Government’s further investment in preparation for a four boat Successor fleet should be welcomed by all suppliers as helping to secure vital skills for the UK in the long term.
EU Environment Council
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Rory Stewart): I will attend the EU Environment Council in Brussels on 4 March, along with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Climate Change, Lord Bourne,
The Scottish Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, Dr Aileen McLeod MSP, will also be attending Council.
Following adoption of the agenda, the list of “A” items will be approved.
Under non-legislative activities, the Council will debate the EU action plan for the circular economy and the follow-up to COP21 (climate change). There will be an exchange of views on the European semester/annual growth survey 2016 and the contribution of the environment and climate to growth and jobs. The Council will adopt a draft statement on endocrine disruptors.
Over lunch Ministers will be invited to discuss the ratification of the Paris agreement (climate change).
The following items are due to be discussed under any other business:
Energy transition—promoting environmentally friendly forms of energy in the EU.
Implementing the 7th environmental action plan.
Minamata package (i) proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on mercury, and repealing regulation (EC) No 1102/2008; (ii) proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Minamata convention on mercury.
Real driving emissions (RDE).
EU action plan on wildlife trafficking.
Innovation deals.
Justice and Home Affairs Council
The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mrs Theresa May): A meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council took place on 25 February, which I attended on behalf of the UK.
The Council began with a discussion on the European Commission’s proposal for an amendment to the Schengen border code to make systematic checks on EU citizens mandatory at external borders. In response to calls from member states, the Council agreed a six-month transitional period for implementation at air borders.
While the UK does not participate in the border elements of Schengen, I welcomed the action by the Schengen states to introduce systematic checks on EU citizens including at airports. This is something the UK already does. However, I noted two other areas where further action is needed to strengthen the external border. First, to further improve the exchange of information on the Schengen information system on entry bans and immigration data. Secondly, following the attacks in Paris, I urged the Commission to promote the phasing out of non-biometric, non-machine readable documents and to support member states to bring their identification documents into line with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standards. The Council agreed a general approach on the Schengen border code measure.
This was followed by an update from the presidency on the proposed draft regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. Given the UK’s position in relation to Schengen we will not participate in this measure, but I highlighted the importance of the UK being able to co-operate effectively with the future European Border and Coast Guard, in line with the support the UK has provided previously to Frontex, while also ensuring that the new agency did not impact on non-Schengen states’ border controls. The presidency is now aiming for a general approach on this proposal at the April JHA Council, with political agreement with the European Parliament by June.
Finally, there was a discussion on migration, as a follow-up to the European Council. The Commission called for efforts to avert a humanitarian crisis in Greece. The Council received an update on the recent Vienna conference, and the steps some member states had taken to manage the movement through the EU of illegal migrants, and to ensure that public order and security were maintained. A number of member states highlighted the importance of implementing decisions already taken in line with February European Council conclusions, and pointed to the new NATO mission as
a means to reducing flows at the source. Member states also discussed the importance of ensuring registration of all migrants on arrival. I welcomed the new NATO involvement in the Aegean, and noted that policies based around redistribution would exacerbate the pull factor and would not help prevent secondary movements. I highlighted that the EU also needed to consider whether the current EU and international migration frameworks were adequate for tackling abuse.
The discussion on migration continued over lunch, which was also attended by the deputy Turkish Interior Minister and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. There was consensus on the need to support the action under way to reduce flows across the Greek-Turkish sea border and to implement the EU-Turkey action plan.
Building a Prosperous and United Community: Progress Report
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mrs Theresa Villiers): Today the Government and Northern Ireland Executive have published a progress report on the Northern Ireland economic pact. The “Building a Prosperous and United Community: 2016 Progress Report”, highlights our successes since the economic pact was first signed in June 2013. I have placed a copy of this report in the Libraries of both Houses.
The Government and the Executive continue to work together to advance our shared aim to strengthen the private sector and rebalance the Northern Ireland economy. The economy is growing, there are 46,000 more people in employment today than in 2010, wages are up more than 5% over the year, and exports are up 4%.
Through the economic pact the Government and the Executive have helped deliver the Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Act 2015. This provides the legislation to devolve rate-setting powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The commencement of these powers is subject to the Executive demonstrating that their finances are on a sustainable footing for the long term. Through the Fresh Start agreement the Executive reaffirmed their commitment to take the necessary actions to demonstrate this and also set out its intention to have a Northern Ireland rate of 12.5% from April 2018.
Through the joint ministerial taskforce on banking and access to finance the Government have worked with the Executive to help deliver approximately £60 million in finances to Northern Ireland businesses. The Green Investment Bank has now committed to invest over £70 million to projects in Northern Ireland and over 450 start-up loans have been approved in Northern Ireland.
The Executive continue to make use of the additional borrowing the Government made available through the economic pact including to improve facilities at integrated primary schools and increased provision of shared housing. Last month the Ministry of Defence announced its intention to gift 59 surplus properties to the Executive.
These properties will be used to increase the provision of shared housing and the Ministry of Defence will continue to explore whether it might be possible to transfer further surplus properties in the future.
The progress report also sets out the British-Irish visa scheme is now operating allowing recipients to travel to both Ireland and Northern Ireland on the same visa. There has now been approval for Government funding for a space propulsion test facility in Crossgar as well as a further €5.5 million for engine design in Northern Ireland. Furthermore the report sets out that Northern Ireland will significantly benefit from the Government’s regional air connectivity fund.
The economic pact sets out a new approach for the Government and the Executive to work more closely on our joint objectives. We will continue to work hard towards rebalancing the Northern Ireland economy and building a shared future.
Light Dues 2016-17
The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Mr Robert Goodwill): The Government are focused on delivering maritime sector growth in the United Kingdom. This includes enhancing Government leadership and creating a supportive environment that will enable the sector to thrive. The vital work of the general lighthouse authorities, which provide and maintain marine aids to navigation around these islands, forms part of this vision.
Continued real terms reductions in the three authorities’ running costs in the UK means that I am able to reduce light dues by a further penny, to 38p per net registered tonne, on 1 April 2016. This will be the third successive year in which the UK light dues rate has been cut, and means that light dues have fallen by 20% in real terms since 2010.
The Government are committed to providing long-term stability for light dues payers, so they can plan budgets effectively. To support that objective, I have set the UK general lighthouse authorities new five-year efficiency targets, succeeding those set in 2010, which require net running costs to continue falling in real terms, by on average two percentage points below the retail price index.
Ships using our busy waters depend on the effectiveness of the service provided by the general lighthouse authorities as much as their efficiency. As the authorities continue
to work assets harder, harness new technology, and procure goods and services collaboratively, our common aim will be to reduce the risk to navigation and the cost of doing so effectively.
Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council
The Minister for Employment (Priti Patel): The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council will take place on 7 March 2016 in Brussels.
The Council will be invited to seek a general approach on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for employment policies in member states.
The Council will be invited to adopt draft Council conclusions in response to the Commission’s strategic engagement for gender equality, the Commission’s list of actions to advance LGBTI equality, and the 2016 annual growth survey. The Council will also be invited to adopt the draft joint employment report.
There will be policy debates on the European semester, for a contribution to the March European Council, and on the progress towards a new skills agenda for Europe.
Regarding the implementation of the country-specific recommendations, there will be a contribution from the Employment Committee (EMCO) on labour market segmentation and contractual arrangements.
The Council will be asked to endorse the key messages from EMCO on the way forward regarding the implementation of the youth guarantee.
The European Commission will make presentations on the 2016 country reports and the labour mobility package. The presidency and European Commission will make a joint presentation on social dialogue and the tripartite social summit.
Under any other business, the presidency will present information on legislative issues currently on their agenda. The Commission will present information on the European pillar of social rights, the state of play regarding the European social fund and youth employment initiative implementation, the employment and social dimension of the Energy Union, and the Istanbul convention on violence against women. Information on the 2016 work programmes of EMCO and Social Protection Committee will be presented by the committees’ respective Chairs.
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The history of Quedex dates back to 1993. However, as early as in 1986 part of our team already worked under a different name in the electronics and programming branch and performed specialised work, including the programming of industry-type 8051 series microcontrollers as well as other controllers based on different computer systems.
Even today we take pride in the time of the past, when we used to program computers such as the famous C-64, next Amiga, Apple and Atari ST in the years 1987-1997 and finally controllers basing on Motorola 68xx chips.
Nearly 100% of the software developed by our team was created in assembler. One of our noteworthy achievements was a real-time operating system MQ-DOS, meant for Motorola 68000 processors, which came into being in 1994 and up to now is still successfully used by many of our customers. Later on we used MQ-DOS to develop a solely machine code data base.
Our team, expert in programming, 3D design, electronics, trade and management has always had a fascination for modern technology and its applications in various areas of life. In 1995 Quedex became a trade and service business.
From the very beginning we have been active in the sales of goods as well as CAD/CAM/3D design, provided professional technical service and highly specialised assistance to TV studios.
Quedex was also one of the Poland’s first professional animation studios working for the TV and one of the first companies active and proficient in the field of modern technology. Currently we are one of the most dynamic businesses in the branch of laser marking and welding, engraving, subtractive rapid prototyping, mechanical and laser 3D scanners, professional CAD/CAM/3D software and specialised video editing systems.
We maintain a close cooperation with many well-known software developers and system integration equipment providers from around the globe, including Autodesk, discreet, Alias, Digital Workshop, Intelli Korea, Picasoft , Robert Mc Neel & Associates, Cambridge Animation Systems, Adobe, Delcam, Intel, Maxtor, Newtek, ArtVps, ATS Informatica Grafica, Cebas, Chaos Group, Digimation, Macromedia, Master Solutions, LuxxTechnik, Model Master, RealViz, SplutterFish, TechSmith, RSI (laser scanning systems), Virtools to name a few. Within the scope of specialized 3D applications, 3D scanning, video, non-linear editing, keying, viewing and recording, we are the exclusive distributor of a number of world-renowned companies, such as Roland, Immersion Corporation, Newtek, Ralsoft, Advanced Rendering Technology. In the past we have been awarded the following titles and certificates: Autodesk Product Support Certificate, Alias Premier Reseller, Discreet Best Reseller in 2001 and in 2004.
Furthermore we have authored many books on 3D design as well as user guides published in specialist magazines. Quedex has carried out training courses and supplied equipment to the largest – world-famous – film studios and TV stations.
Our team includes also teachers, translators and lecturers. We have a very interesting portfolio, which comprises practical use of the software we distribute – multimedia presentations of products and systems both for our own and our customers’ purposes.
In the areas of prototyping and scanning, we supply advanced mechanical and laser technology devices. In this scope, we are the exclusive Polish distributor of Roland, Immersion Corporation and Picasoft products and a distributor of Robert Mc Neel & Associates.
We provide our customers with advanced equipment, professional training courses and, as the exclusive Necumer distributor, high quality rapid prototyping materials.
We also specialise in 3D scanning and reverse prototyping, offering a wide range of scanners and digitizers. Equipment for the milling and engraving industry includes Roland mechanical engraving machines, CO2 laser systems by Laser Tools & Technics and Ytterbium and YAG laser systems by TELESIS.
We provide advanced engraving training courses and technical support services to the biggest companies in Poland and we pride ourselves on having invented and patented several new technologies for both laser and mechanical engravers.
We provide high-skilled technical support for all of the products within the scope of our supply, including laser and galvanoscanning devices – as an authorised Roland DG service centre.
In 2007, in cooperation with our partners, we started a new branch related to thermal imaging systems. We are not only interested in the technology but are also very concerned with the natural environment.
Thus we place great emphasis on the use of exhaust filtering systems both when it comes to our own company and that of our customers’. Quedex is a very flexible and dynamic company.
In spite of a large territory of activity, which comprises Poland, England, Russia, Taiwan, Germany, Spain, Denmark, France, Hungary, Holland, Italia, Japan, USA, Korea and China, we still remain a small, well-integrated team open to novelties and ready to face new challenges.
In 2008, Quedex was taken over by Quedex Sp. z o.o. and its subsidiaries. It was the move that augmented the company’s position in the CNC market (which includes lathes, milling machines and lasers) and blended the portfolios of both companies by adding another product segment (dust extraction, adsorption and filtration systems).
The Quedex is currently owned by Quedex Sp. z o.o., and all its customer service operations are continued with no interruption. Quedex is currently leader in the business of manufacture and distribution of polyurethane processing machines and laser extraction systems.
Our company is constantly on the lookout for new business partners around the world and any prospective cooperation is most welcome.
We offer the highest technical service standards, as evidenced by written customer references from around the world. In keeping with the policy of Quedex Sp. z o.o., we offer top-quality representative services for our business partners in Poland and around Europe, but only as the exclusive distributor of their products.
We are looking forward to partnering with you! TBH Polska Sp. z o.o.
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Can this cartoon Muslim princess soothe China’s ethnic tensions?
By Jeanne Kim
Published August 27, 2014 This article is more than 2 years old.
Princess Fragrant is the eponymous star of a 104-episode animation series from China in which the Uyghur princess, alongside her brother and their Han and Kazakh friends, embark on a quest to save her captured father. The goal of the series? To show “that ethnic unity is the most powerful weapon in the face of adversity,” the production’s director, Deng Jiangwei, told the New York Times.
To anyone familiar with the glaring ethnic tension and violence between the Uyghur minority and Han Chinese majority, it would be easy to have a skeptical, even pessimistic view as to what the animation is trying to achieve. And those thoughts are widely justified.
For starters, the legend of Princess Fragrant is perceived very differently by the two factions. For Uyghurs, the traditional story is closely tied to the history of intrusion onto Uyghur lands. In their version, Iparhan (as the Princess Fragrant character is known) was captured while she was fighting for Uyghur autonomy—to be a concubine to the emperor. This telling varies greatly from the one told to Han Chinese, who know Princess Fragrant as Xiangfei. In the Han version, the Qianlong emperor was so enraptured by Xiangfei’s fragrant scent that she was brought before him, wooed with lavish gifts, and lived in harmony with the emperor.
Alim Seytoff, a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, an organization of exiled Uyghurs, was critical of the cartoon’s attempt to showcase ethnic unity, telling Quartz the animation portrays a “fabricated story of her as a princess marrying the Manchu emperor” rather than as a woman who is taken against her will to lead a tragic life as a concubine. Seytoff also says he was unable to recognize that the character was an Uyghur princess based on the way she was dressed.
“From a westerner’s point of view, trying to patch over extreme ethnic tensions with a cutesy cartoon portrayal of a minority woman might seem problematic—like screening Disney’s Pocahontas after Wounded Knee,” James Millward, professor of Chinese and Central Asian History at Georgetown University told Quartz. But Millward also thinks we “should give this company and its official Chinese supporters credit for making an effort at this time to be culturally sensitive and to present a positive image of Uyghurs to the majority Han Chinese audience.”
There have been other signs that the government is ready to convey a different tone than before on the subject of ethnic minorities, assessing perhaps that some tensions could no longer be ignored. The second Central Work Forum on Xinjiang, held by the Politburo in May, marked one of the first times that the Chinese government went beyond its typical response of promoting economic development as a way of fostering greater relations between Uyghurs and Han Chinese, acknowledging that bridging the ethnic division would help bring greater stability to Xinjiang (where 45% of Uyghurs live and where much of the unrest has taken place). The forum also called for greater integration between the two groups.
In making their cartoon series, producers reportedly cooperated with the local government in Xinjiang and purposefully sought a musician that is culturally acceptable to both Uyghurs and Han Chinese. Deng, the director, has said that the cartoon would steer away from topics of politics and religion, allowing audiences to focus instead on elements of cultural unity.
It will be a tough sell. Seytoff tells Quartz that the series is a form of propaganda made by people who understand only one side of the conflict. “It’s like the Chinese government is trying to make the cartoon without understanding Uyghur culture and then showing it to Uyghurs hoping that they will love it.”
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How Beyoncé Did It: The Grueling Schedule Of Secret Shoots That Helped Her Pull Off Her Surprise Album REVEALED
By:Radar Staff
Dec. 13 2013, Published 5:10 p.m. ET
It almost seemed like magic when Beyoncé shocked the world by dropped her new album, complete with 17 new videos, at midnight Thursday night. How, fans wondered, did the new mom manage to pull off such a feat without anyone finding out beforehand, and in the middle of her international Mrs. Carter Show World Tour nonetheless? After an exhaustive investigation, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal the punishing schedule of secret video shoots around the world that created the material for the "Beyoncé" visual album: More than a dozen video shoots in eight different cities on four different continents somehow managed to go under the radar and leave fans in the dark -- until now.
One of the first video shoots for the new album took place on August 11 at the Bishoup Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood, where Beyoncé filmed the pageant scene for "Pretty Hurts" over two nights in the school auditorium. Neighbors noticed the production vans outside, and the auditorium's blue velvet curtain made an eventual appearance in the clip.
Just a few days later, she and Jay Z jetted down to Miami to film the video for "Drunk In Love" on August 15. Again, neighbors spotted them filming nearby, and the couple happily posed for pics. Jay Z even let a young fan wear the chains that he would rock in the video.
From there, Beyoncé flew off to England for two dates in Chelmsford and Weston-under-Lizard on Aust 17 and 18.
By August 29, she was back in Brooklyn, filming the video for XO at Coney Island.
That shoot drew a lot of attention after a couple got trapped on the top of a ferris wheel during filming.
Two days later, Beyoncé rocked a show in Philadelphia, before heading to South America for two weeks of concerts in Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia.
On September 17, she filmed scenes for the video for "Blue" in the small Brazilian seaside town of Trancoso, before playing a concert in Brasilia that night.
#Rumour: Beyoncé to shoot a Video in an undisclosed location tomorrow in São Paulo, Brazil.
— PH HIVE (@BeyonceRevPH) September 14, 2013
After wrapping her South American tour on September 22, it was on to Mexico for concerts in Monterrey on September 24, and Mexico City on September 26.
When the Mexico City show ended, she jetted to Houston to the set of the video for "Blow" at the Funplex roller-skating rink, and that shoot did not wrap up until the early morning hours.
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Just a few days after that, it was back to the East Coast to shoot scenes for "Heaven" in Oakland, New Jersey, on October 2.
On October 10, Beyoncé filmed scenes for a music video at the Greenham Common bomb shelter, according to local media.
Then, she and Jay flew off for a romantic vacation in Paris. They were spotted dining at La Petite Maison de Nicole on October 13, and throughout the weekend they spent time at the notorious strip club Crazy Horse Paris, where B filmed scenes that would end up in the video for "Partition." In particular, a chaise lounge frequently used in the club's shows makes an appearance in the final cut of the video.
By October 16, Beyoncé was in Auckland, New Zealand, kicking off the Down Under leg of her tour. After four dates there, it was on to Australia, but her team was still hard at work on her video projects in the U.S.
On October 20, a crew filmed scenes for "No Angel" near the Cuney Homes projects on Houston's South Side.
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Three days later, Beyoncé filmed her own scenes for the video in Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia.
Beyoncé shooting something in Brunswick, Melbourne. Photo shoot or music video? pic.twitter.com/XKgSjzl8OE
— 🌿micks. (@byemicks) October 24, 2013
She finished her Australian tour on November 9 in Perth. From there, it was right back to work in L.A., where she filmed the video for "Haunted" on November 11, according to an extra who was on set for several days.
November 13 saw filming for "Superpower." Fans who spotted her leaving an L.A. studio with distinctive eye makeup assumed the shoot was for "Bow Down," but she ended up rocking the look in the "Superpower" clip.
With her tour on a brief hiatus as the launch date for her album approached, Beyoncé flew back to New York to film the music video for "Jealous" on November 19. The red leather Burberry Prorsum coat she wore on set caused a splash online, but again, fans assumed it would end up in the video for "Bow Down," and not the secret track.
In all, it seems like an exhausting couple of months -- and this run-down doesn't even include the shoots for videos for "Ghost," "Yoncé," "Rocket," "Mine," and "Flawless," many of which were filmed on lockdown in studios.
Do you think her hard work was worth it? Let us know what you think of Beyoncé's surprise album and videos in the comments!
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TRAN, D., HUANG, X. & MA, W., 2013, The 6th IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER). Sunagawa, K., Roux, C., Tamura, T., Lovell, N. & Makikawa, M. (eds.). USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Vol. 1. p. 1295-1298 4 p.
Age, sex and period estimates of Australia’s mental health over the last 17 years
Burns, R. A., Butterworth, P. & Crisp, D. A., 1 Jun 2020, In: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 54, 6, p. 602-608 7 p.
Age, menstruation history, and the brain
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A Gathering (world premiere of work commissioned and performed by the Adelaide Chamber Singers)
Hetherington, P. & Cawrse, A., 2021
Agamben and 'Bare Life' on Nauru
Murphy, B., 16 Oct 2019
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Against the Third Way: An Anti-Capitalise Critique
Walsh, M., 2002, In: Journal of Sociology. 38, 2, p. 199-201 3 p.
Against the Odds of Tradition: Nudging the Glass Ceiling of Sport Management and Leadership
Thornton, O. & Etxebarria, N., 17 May 2021, In: Gender in Management. 36, 5, p. 591-604 14 p.
Against the Grain The AWB Scandal and Why it Happened
Bartos, S., 2006, Sydney: UNSW Press. 96 p.
Against Social Democracy: Mobility Rights for a Globalising World
Weber, L., 2013, Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. Carrington, K., Ball, M., O'Brien, E. & Tauri, J. (eds.). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 344-358 15 p.
Against Bot Democracy: The Dangers of Epistemic Double-Counting
Tanasoca, A., 20 Jun 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Perspectives on Politics. p. 1-15 15 p.
A Fuzzy Legal Reasoner for University Decision Support
Sharma, D. & Behari, S., 2003, In: South Pacific Journal of Natural Sciences. 21, p. 66-74 9 p.
A fuzzy based multiobjective optimization of multi echelon supply chain network
Jamwal, P. K. & Hussain, S., 7 Oct 2020, In: Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems. 39, 3, p. 3057-3066 10 p.
A Fuzzy Approach to Speaker Verification
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A funny course for a woman
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Afterword: Rethinking Border Control for a Globalizing World: A Preferred Future
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Social media could be sued for stalking, harassment, death
Three Democratic senators introduce bill to overhaul Section 230 of federal communications law
By Dean DeChiaro
Posted February 9, 2021 at 6:00am
The latest legislative proposal to hold social media companies accountable for harmful content on their platforms is generating a split reaction from civil liberties groups and legal experts.
The bill, announced by a trio of Senate Democrats on Friday, would amend a 1996 law that protects online companies from being sued over content that third parties post to their sites by making exceptions for content related to stalking, harassment, or even wrongful death.
The law, known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, has been credited with nurturing the meteoric rise of Silicon Valley in the past two decades. But as companies such as Facebook and Google have grown more powerful, the law has come under scrutiny.
“When Section 230 was enacted, the internet looked very different than it does today,” said Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., one of the bill’s authors.
Warner said the law was meant to encourage websites “to develop tools and policies to support effective moderation.” Instead it inoculated companies “even when they do nothing to address foreseeable, obvious and repeated misuse of their products and services to cause harm.”
The proposal, co-sponsored by Democratic Sens. Mazie K. Hirono of Hawaii and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, is the first that seeks to change the terms of Section 230 since the deadly riot at the Capitol last month by a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters.
Democrats outraged by the riot say social media companies should lose legal protections granted by Section 230 because Trump and his allies incited the violence via the companies' platforms, and groups whose members were present at the riot used the websites to organize.
Loss of life
The senators’ proposal would allow users to sue a company in instances where the company has refused to remove certain types of harmful content from their platform, and the result is a loss of life. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died as a result of the riot.
“How [technology companies] operate has a real-life effect on the safety and civil rights of Americans and people around the world, as well as our democracy,” Klobuchar said in a statement. “Holding these platforms accountable for ads and content that can lead to real-world harm is critical, and this legislation will do just that.”
The bill won the praise of prominent civil rights groups including the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League. Lisa Cylar Barrett, director of policy at the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said the proposal would help to address “the growing and dangerous combination of misinformation and discrimination.”
“These platforms are being used to violate the civil rights of Black users and other users of color by serving as virtually-unchecked homes for hateful content and in areas such as housing and employment discrimination through the targeting and limiting of who can see certain advertisements,” Barrett said in a statement.
[Advocates urge Biden, Congress to leave Section 230 intact]
But other advocates are opposed to the bill. Evan Greer, the deputy director of the digital and civil rights group Fight for the Future, said her organization will lobby against the proposal out of concern that it could hamper freedom of expression and hurt marginalized communities.
Specifically, Greer said, a carve-out in the bill meant to address online advertising could be interpreted to apply to any paid service, endangering websites like Etsy, Bandcamp or Patreon.
Like the advocacy community, legal experts are also divided. Olivier Sylvain, a professor of communications law at Fordham University, said in a statement that the bill creates “a new and necessary incentive” for companies to be “more mindful of the social impacts of their services.”
But others said the bill’s language is too broad and could have unintended consequences.
“It is well-intentioned but the drafting lacks precision and courts could read it as removing [Section 230] protections from nearly every platform on the internet,” Jeff Kosseff, a law professor at the U.S. Naval Academy who wrote a book on Section 230, said in a post on Twitter.
Warner, Hirono and Klobuchar also face resistance from some fellow Democrats. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who helped write Section 230, praised the bill’s intention but warned that it would devastate every part of the open internet and cause massive collateral damage to online speech.”
“This bill would have the same effect as a full repeal of [Section 230], but cause vastly more uncertainty and confusion, thanks to the tangle of new exceptions,” Wyden told The Washington Post.
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Small-Town America: 'One Bad Season Away From Bankrupt'
# Opinion # Conservative # pennsylvania # coronavirus # covid-19 # pandemic
Salena Zito
Shutterstock/PENpics Studio
OHIOPYLE, Pennsylvania — Like most places in the United States, this tiny patch of a town is struggling to stay afloat. Like most places, people here are trying to help others out. And like most places, those who live and work here wonder whether their community will ever be the same.
Vicki Marietta's family has been in this place forever. Decades ago, her grandparents ran the Ohiopyle House Hotel.
Marietta sat on a picnic bench with her mother outside of Backyard Gardens, her charming, uncluttered store that specializes in baskets of local produce: eggs, bacon, cheeses, jars of honey, apple butters, sauces, relishes and her famous homemade pepper butter (the last of which the Food and Drug Administration makes her call mustard).
People from three states wait all winter to restock their pantries with her pepper sauce once she reopens in the spring.
"Normally, I would be open weekends from mid-March until mid-May and then seven days a week. Right now I'm not opening my doors because of the coronavirus. I am doing curbside pickups for people who call in and want their favorite local items," she explained. "It's going to be a tough season for every business in this town, not only me."
A van pulled up, and two faces familiar to Marietta, Scott Patton and Maureen Patton, emerge to visit with her outside from a safe distance. They are both longtime friends and customers.
Off in the not-too-far distance, the long, long and short warning whistles of a CSX Corp. train howl along the curves of the Laurel Hill Mountain and the Youghiogheny Gorge as it nears the train station-turned-information booth located in the former center of town. It's the same former center of town where Marietta's family lived until the state government began acquiring homes for Project 70 development, securing acreage to develop the future home of Ohiopyle State Park.
"They took the biggest part of this town by force, by eminent domain, and it was to create the park," she explains. "So they displaced a lot of people out of the town. A lot of my family. They tore down my church. They tore down businesses and homes in this town."
Maurice Goddard, then the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters, said at the time that it was "the greatest thing that ever happened for Western Pennsylvania."
Marietta has her doubts. "It dropped the population," she said. "When I finally moved out of this town proper in 1978, there were only 115 people left. Now there's about 35."
When the railroads came through this area in the 1800s, they brought prosperity. Tourists flocked to see, hear and feel the surge of the river rapids. For a $1 ticket, they brought their picnic baskets and their families from Pittsburgh and Cumberland and stayed for the day. They came from Washington and Philadelphia to stay for the night in any of the grand hotels that once lined the tiny town grid.
There were boardwalks and dance pavilions, bowling alleys and tennis courts. But the big draw was the rapids.
In the 1920s, when the an automobile became affordable for average families, people in the region started going on great American road trips and stopped coming to Ohiopyle. The resorts were torn down, along with the dance pavilions and the boardwalk. The town just sort of waited for something to come next.
Forty years later, just before the creation of the state park, the first commercial whitewater rafting company on the Youghiogheny River and east of the Mississippi opened. In its first year, 400 people enjoyed the thrills of the Lower Yough rapids. By 2007, over 100,000 people had come.
Pandemics are not the only forces that have taken a toll on this town. When the automobile came, the town died a little death. When the state park came, the core of its community was elbowed out of generations of living and working, and it died another little death.
Culture, too, has toyed with its fortunes. What the baby-boom generation did to boost this town with thrill seeking on the Youghiogheny has been taken away by millennials and Gen Zers — visits for guided raft trips on the Youghiogheny declined by 40% in the past decade and a half.
The Great Allegheny Passage has certainly helped. The iconic bike trail connects Pittsburgh to Cumberland, with Ohiopyle in the middle. It also helps that Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece, is less than 10 minutes away.
Inside Marietta's shop, she explains that she has a map that marks where every customer who walks through her door comes from. "Last year, we had visitors from 48 states and 58 countries," she said. But she is worried for the future. "This whole town is one bad season away from bankrupt," she said.
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What to expect in France for 2016
The start of the New Year in France brought in a flood of changes, including a complete reworking of France’s map and compulsory doggy bags in restaurants. Here’s everything you need to know.
Less regions in France
It’s 2016 and France now has 13 regions – down from 22 – thanks to a major rework of the regional map.
The new map (above) saw some regions like Brittany unchanged, but the fusion of two or even three regions in some other cases. The move is an effort to streamline regional councils and to run the country more efficiently.
The names of the new regions remain unannounced, and for the moment are just a combination of the names of the previous regions. (See www.gouvernement.fr/action/la-reforme-territoriale)
Paris gets bigger
January 1st saw the official launch of Grand Paris, or “La Métropole du Grand Paris” to give it its full name. Essentially, the project means that the large Parisian suburbs of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne – as well as a handful of smaller communes – will now become much closer integrated with the capital in the aim of inter-communal cooperation.
Grand Paris will see over 200 councillors working together on issues ranging from environmental to economic development.
Increase in minimum wage
Those on minimum wage in France can expect an ever-so-slightly fatter wallet – with a €6 increase per month. The minimum hourly wage is now €9.67 an hour, or €1,466.62 a month.
Drop in gas prices
For the fourth consecutive month, France’s gas prices have fallen, this time by an average of 2%. The prices have dropped by an average of over 10% since January last year.
Tampon tax drops
The tax on women’s sanitary products has dropped from 20% to just 5.5%. This has been a hot topic in France, seeing protests from women’s groups around the country who argued that tampons should be taxed like condoms or food.
The government initially opposed changing the rate, saying it would reduce tax receipts in 2016 by €55 million.
Doggy bags introduced
Restaurants now officially need to provide doggy bags for customers who want to take their meal home. The law applies to any eatery that serves over 180 meals per day.
It’s a move by the government to cut down on the 7 million tonnes of food wasted in France each year – but it remains to be seen if the French will adopt this typically American custom.
Get paid to cycle to work
Those who cycle to work are now eligible for a little extra pocket money, with a new plan rolled out to pay cyclists 25 cents for every kilometre they cycle between their home and their office. Payment is capped at €200 a year. For more information (in French) see “Indemnité kilométrique vélo – Mode d’emploi”.
Pay less taxes
France is set to get a simplified tax system this year, which will see income tax (Impôt sur le revenu) taken automatically at source rather than the following year after the individual annual declarations.
It is estimated that 8 million people in France will pay less tax this year than they did in 2015, with new “one stop shops” opened around the country to make bill paying easier.
Increase in bank fees
The average fee to have a bank account in France is set to be €16 this year, compared to €12 in 2015.
January saw several jumps in these maintenance fees, notably at the Banque Postale, which will leap from €4.20 to €6.20.
And even though there were no fees in recent years, January brought the implementation of new fees at BNP Paribas, Société Générale, and Caisse d’Epargne Ile-de-France – which will charge an annual €30, €24, and €15 per account.
Extra “terrorism taxes”
Those with home or car insurance will pay a bit more “terrorism tax” – meaning the total jumped from €3.30 to €4.30 from January on.
This money will go towards helping the families of terror victims and those who have been injured in terror attacks.
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Meeting Challenges of an Aging Society
Yolanda Fernandez Lommen 30 Jul 2021
The population in the PRC is aging rapidly. The proportion of people aged 60 or above is expected to increase to 35 percent by 2050, turning the population into one of the oldest in the world. While aging poses great challenges, if managed well, these can be overcome to create opportunities.
Reforms for fostering labor mobility and upgrading human capital will reduce the labor shortages stemming from an aging population. Greater public and private investments to strengthen elderly care services and facilities will create employment opportunities and improve people’s well-being.
Benefits of greater labor mobility
Mobility restrictions in the PRC－the household registration system (hukou) and inability of migrants to claim social security benefits away from home－discourage transfers from provinces where there is a surplus of labor to ones where there is a deficit. Re-allocating labor from low- to high-productivity sectors could add several percentage points to GDP growth. And accelerating the ongoing relaxation of the hukou policy and social security reforms for migrant workers to gain access to social services and benefits in their place of residency will remove such institutional mobility barriers.
The benefits of greater mobility can be maximized through increased investments in human capital. Gross enrollment rate in the PRC’s senior high schools and the percentage of population with tertiary education in scientific and technical subjects need to increase. The growing digitalization of the economy adds pressure to the task.
While new learning methods should encourage lifelong learning, creativity, innovation, and problem-solving skills, incentives must be introduced for companies to provide on-the-job training, and initiatives to re-train workers whose skills are obsolete to prolong their participation in the labor force.
Increasing female participation in the labor market will also help maintain the labor supply. Although gender gaps in education have largely closed, female workforce participation has declined over the past decade, and women continue to bear a disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care work at home and remain under-represented in scientific research and high-technology industries and services. Policies for equal employment opportunities, increased maternity leave, improved support for childcare, elderly care, and single mothers, are essential to attract and maintain women in the labor force.
Better services and care for the elderly
Under the PRC’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), development of an efficient long-term care (LTC) system is a government priority. Insufficient elderly care facilities result in unnecessary admissions in acute care hospitals and are a waste of healthcare resources. Improved home- and community-based LTC can address this issue. Incentives to develop home- and community-based services, such as home help, home care, and home nursing services, and center-based services to support the elderly are critical to meet the”90-7-3 older persons care pattern “launched during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) period in which 90 percent of the elderly population should receive home-based care, 7 percent community-based care, and 3 percent institutional care.
More affordable elderly residential care for lower-income households that need assistance is part of the solution. These facilities can be funded by a mix of government support, individual pension contributions, and private sector involvement. This approach is emerging in the PRC but needs to be strengthened. These efforts will benefit from a shift in the role of the government from supplier to regulator for the provision of LTC. Examples of government tasks include setting policies and standards, subsidizing people who cannot afford the private facilities, and incentivizing private sector participation, which can engage in effective models of public-private partnerships.
Incentives and policies need to be improved
At the same time, incentives and policies to retain and train LTC givers must improve. Professions crucial to a well-functioning elderly care system, including nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nutritionists, medical specialists (that is, neurologists, specialists in geriatrics), social workers, service providers, and managers must expand. The number of professionals in paramedical, medical, social work and elderly care management should also increase, as those will result in better care and improved services for the elderly, as well as significant employment opportunities.
Addressing the needs of an aging society is costly. Public healthcare expenditure in the PRC stands at 2.9 percent of GDP compared with the 6.5 percent average in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, where LTC alone amounts to 1.7 percent of GDP. the PRC has made significant progress in extending health insurance coverage universally, but out-of-pocket payments still account for about half of the total health expenditure, exacerbating the vulnerability of lower-income households. Expanding health insurance coverage, reducing co-insurance rates, and introducing ceilings on maximum out-of-pocket payments are reforms that have proven effective in other countries.
Increased funding should not threaten fiscal sustainability. A more progressive taxation system, the further liberalization of energy and resource prices, and the introduction of environmental and property taxes would increase social spending without straining public finances. Policy reforms, too, can help. Affordable social services, higher pensions, and support to women through subsidies for childcare, baby bonuses, child grants, flexible hours, or part-time work, are key to lift fertility rates mitigating the impacts of an aging society.
While gradual increases in retirement age will strengthen labor supply and support the sustainability of the pension system, which is crucial for the success of a multigenerational workforce, age-friendly policies, such as more flexible work options, retraining, re-skilling, and age-friendly workplaces are important during the transition. Finally, the sustainability of the pension system is critical in an aging society. For that, the introduction of voluntary private pension funds, currently piloted in Zhejiang and Chongqing, needs to progress faster.
Yolanda Fernandez Lommen
Country Director, PRC Resident Mission, ADB
This Op-Ed is reproduced from China Daily.
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adding page this day
Philippe Greier @fl9wrider
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steven spielberg:
sometimes a dream almost whispers.. the hardest thing to listen to your instincts..your human personal intuition.. always whispers.. never shouts.. very hard to hear
and we will benefit from everything you do..
listen..
listen – holmgren indigenous law
a nother way to listen to all the voices
Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE, OMRI (born December 18, 1946) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular directors and producers in film history. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg’s films have spanned many themes and genres. Spielberg’s early science-fiction and adventure films, such as Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial(1982), were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood escapist filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, civil rights, war, and terrorism in such films as The Color Purple (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), Schindler’s List (1993), Amistad (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Munich (2005), War Horse(2011), Lincoln (2012), and Bridge of Spies (2015). His other films include Jurassic Park (1993), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), and War of the Worlds (2005).
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, as well as receiving five other nominations. Three of Spielberg’s films—Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park—achieved box office records, originated and came to epitomize the blockbuster film. The unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $9 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing director in history. His personal net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion. He is also known for his long-standing associations with several actors, producers, and technicians, most notably composer John Williams, who has composed music for all but two of Spielberg’s movies which are The Color Purple and Bridge of Spies.
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It always hurts to see someone die. It hurts twice as much when said person has directly impacted your view on art, and it hurts even more to know that they passed on due to terrible circumstances. Such is the case for Tony Scott, one of the greatest, most stylistic and unique mainstream Hollywood directors ever to grace the screen with his inimitable presence, who sadly passed away on the 19th of August 2012 after jumping off of the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the midst of “fighting a lengthy battle with cancer.” (As said by his brother, Ridley Scott). Despite this, Tony Scott left behind a legacy that is still unmatched as one of the best, most visually ambitious of all Hollywood directors who has without a doubt had a huge impact on many of the mainstream directors working today (most evidently, Michael Bay), and a man who consistently entertained millions, to the point that film will never forget his work… even if their prioritising Top Gun above all else seems like a mistake to me…
Anyway, without too much more of an introduction, we’re going to look into the work of Tony Scott here, excluding short films and running in chronological order just for ease.
The Hunger (1983)
Somehow (likely due to his connection to his brother, Ridley Scott, who was already well entrenched in the film scene due to a little film called Alien releasing a few years before…), Tony Scott managed to start his feature film career with a film starring no other than the Starman, David Bowie, alongside Catherine Deneuve (who needs no introduction) and Susan Sarandon, in this extremely stylistic vampire drama about John, the vampire who suddenly finds himself ageing at a rapid rate. Scott’s beautiful style is surprisingly well suited to the darker and more dingy gothic textures that cover this, and even though his visuals feel quite influenced by Nic Roeg (especially The Man Who Fell To Earth, which is striking as both star Bowie as something not quite human), the film clearly shows Scott’s visual potential and, for a debut feature, it is just astounding. The direction is so self-assured and confident whilst never striking as obnoxious or pretentious, managing to toe the line and glide along that oh-so wonderful sweet spot that is impossible to take your eyes off of. It’s a beautiful meeting point between deep melancholy and impossible, freeing ecstasy, and one hell of a first film for any director.
Top Gun (1986)
As if The Hunger wasn’t impressive as a debut, three years later Tony Scott somehow made his second feature film outing one of the most iconic and well known films of all time, with the beautiful Top Gun. Of course, the film isn’t perfect – it’s often really quite silly, but Scott has never been tempted by focusing on reality, it seems he is a director drawn to making films due to the opposite – he chases the kind of fantasy that is achievable through film, and so Top Gun just becomes a beautiful celebration of technology and of cinema. It’s a film that simply feels triumphant throughout, as you can feel Scott’s wandering eye has latched onto his subject and the sheer joy of everybody there. It has that tangible feeling of a group of people so proud to be working on something, with the notable hunger of being new to the game – this feeling is smothered over Top Gun so much that you could probably scrape it off of your screen and bottle it at any given point. With its deep oranges and distinct military greens, it just looks beautiful, and in a way the cheesiness of the plot also adds to this inimitable charm and makes Top Gun one of those films that, in an ironic way, deserves its reputation among casual filmgoers as one of the go-to all time classics.
And in all honesty, even the remake feels right, with new cameras being built specifically for the film. From the trailers, it looks like the producers understand the charm that came with the over-the-top insanity of the first, with it stating just grounded enough to function as a kind of entrancing hyper-reality… I, for one, am really quite excited to see how it turns out. If it can manage to even hold a candle to the original’s beautiful visuals, we’re in for a treat. With such a focus on technological developments since the last one, I think it’s bound to at least look fantastic… but only time will tell!
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Taking a slight detour here to look at a film that I’m still often surprised to see Scott’s name attached to (until I remind myself of how the film looks and then it becomes transparently clear), let’s look at the second Beverly Hills Cop film. Of course, the first is as much of a classic as Top Gun is, and even if I personally don’t think all too much of the first it’s really not difficult to look at what it does and see why it is so enjoyable to so many. It does an excellent job of riding the line between action, thriller and comedy, managing to actually mix all three to the point that the audience is constantly expecting something new to happen and still is consistently surprised, and what I said earlier about Scott’s ability to toe cinematic genre lines when talking about The Hunger most definitely also applies to his work on Beverly Hills Cop II. Infusing his one of a kind visual style into what is otherwise just a really, really fun and off the wall blockbuster of pretty epic proportions that definitely has the unique feeling that comes with the cop action/comedy hybrids of the time (see also Lethal Weapon 1-4 and the Dirty Harry sequels – the first is quite serious but after that they become more self aware and let loose for the most part, aside from the fourth film, Sudden Impact).
It seems that Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley and Scott were just a matching too good to be true, as both seem to bounce off of each other seamlessly despite the fact that Scott doesn’t appear once in front of the camera. He is all over the film, in its slick lighting, the quick editing and the pacing that seems to only have time for chaos and laughter. It’s like a blueprint to a Michael Bay film if it were picked up by someone else… and it’s beautiful…
And this film concludes Scott’s work from the 1980s! Certainly making his presence known in the first four years of his career, Scott would only go on to greater things, too…
Tony Scott burst into the 1990s by making two of his better films within months of each other. Revenge was the first of the two, (unsurprisingly) a revenge action thriller starring the great Kevin Costner (the more I see, the more of a fan I am of his 90s work!). This seems to be one of the least popular of all of Scott’s films, despite the fact that it has been released twice (once in the cut of producer Ray Stark, which was critically maligned to what feels like a genuinely unfair degree, and later as Tony Scott’s leaner cut… we’ll be discussing the former here!), and yet I think it is one of his best. Surprisingly finely tuned, and loosening up on his usually very held together visual style to make way for pure narrative momentum, Scott changes lanes here for a moment and seems to almost accidentally make one of his finest films in doing so. This isn’t to say that his normal style is bad, of course, but the way that he adapts to this change and follows through with it is not only endlessly fascinating but serves this specific film beautifully.
It feels quite abrupt and stilted, but for good reason, with the performances seeming to stick to each other rather than suavely slide around and bounce off of each other, and it all creates this quite uncomfortable tension from the very start of the film. Of course, the editing supports this, as does the grim nature of the characters as none of them is really innocent in the grand scheme of things. The form seems to almost be screaming at the audience to be noticed, with these glistening oranges and yellows almost always followed by deep blues and reds in contrast, with sharp editing, almost gratuitous gore during the action scenes and such a fierce visually attacking style, and of course when matched with the rather grizzly themes of indifference and patriarchal oppression in the modern world, it all becomes quite condemning. It’s the first Scott film where there is an anger bubbling away under the surface, or maybe more of just a burning passion as opposed to an outright anger, and maybe this comes through due to it not being his cut of the film, but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t make for one of the leanest and meanest thrillers of recent memory.
Costner and Madeleine Stowe (also great in Unlawful Entry!) are both excellent in their own way, managing to make their stilted chemistry work somehow. Scott apparently set up three cameras and simply told them to improvise their sex scenes, so it’s not difficult to imagine how awkward the set would have been, and yet they make it work in spite of their lacking chemistry as it is this chemistry that makes that uncomfortable feeling so hard to ignore. And that uncomfortable feeling at the core of the film is exactly what informs the rest of it, the film seems to be fuelled by its own intense discomfort and makes phenomenal use of it, too. It’s a film that seems to rot the brain somewhat, but leave you feeling all the better for it. It’s brutally violent, really quite harsh, and paints the world in a grim, despicable light that most mainstream films seem quite afraid of… maybe this explains why many critics tossed it to one side without giving it too much thought…
Days of Thunder (1990)
Letting the shackles off for his next film, Scott returns to his usually quite jolly self with Days of Thunder, definitely the only film I’ve ever laid eyes on to feature a scene with a race between two people in wheelchairs. For the most part, Days of Thunder is a surface level re-telling of the story that seems to corrupt just about every sports related film that exists, that of some seemingly insurmountable hurdle getting in the way and subsequently being torn down before a great victory… you’ve heard and seen it all before, without a doubt, but thankfully between Scott’s electrifying direction, his visual panache and Tom Cruise’s damn good performance, this one is far from a chore to sit through even if you can’t quite shake the idea that you’ve seen the film before. I can’t help but wish that Scott did break the mould a little more here and dared to step outside of the zone of sports films a little more, however, as soon as those driving sequences start, it’s difficult not to be completely overwhelmed by the sheer kinetic power of it all… and the romantic melodrama (as well as the psychological one) at the centre of the film also works quite well. It’s a film that is incredibly light on its feet, and one that is as slick as blockbusters can get.
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Scott’s only stand-out comedy film (as in, a film that stands out as a comedy above any other genre, not his best comic work) is 1991’s The Last Boy Scout, starring Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans… however, to dismiss this as a simple action comedy would be really quite ignorant. This is the one of Scott’s most clearly anti-establishment films (he would go on to make a successive string of these through the 90s, most of his films from The Last Boy Scout and onwards focus on this same theme to differing extents.), and it really lays out the blueprint for a lot of what his later work would be focused on. Maintaining its light tone in spite of the politically vile ideas focused on throughout, The Last Boy Scout is a flawed but still quite enjoyable film focused on corruption and the fight against corruption in the hope of living in a better world… and it’s also really funny.
True Romance (1993)
As someone who was once a big Tarantino fan but has since found progressively less to like in his work, I have to admit I was quite hesitant to look back at True Romance when I focused in on Scott’s work. There’s a reason that so many people remain certain that Tarantino directed this, his directorial fingerprint lays all over it as if he ghost directed the project, but this only goes to prove the stylistic power of his scripts, I suppose… Anyway, the point is is that I was trepidatious about coming back to see what this has in store for me, but was pleased to find that for the most part, some grating scenes aside, it’s a good story and one that is generally quite well handled.
To me, the star of this film has been and probably always will be Hans Zimmer’s beautifully bouncy score, the familiar jingle of which I often find stuck in my head… Second to the score is of course the wonderfully dynamic duo of Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, who not only have great chemistry (Scott must have learned from his handling of Revenge, or he just got more lucky with the casting this time) but also individually give very charismatic and entertaining performances perfectly fit to the tone of the film. Of course, the script being Tarantino’s, it features all of his usual traits with speedy dialogue and plenty of vulgarity and even the usual sprinkle of politically ambiguity, but on the whole Scott manages to direct this in such a way that the dialogue falls back somewhat and the main focus is shed on the story and characters (My God, Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken kill it in this!), so it isn’t as much of a Tarantino effort as many make it out to be. I do think that this is one of Scott’s less ambitious works, and that it feels like one of his minor works despite it being his most popular and maybe his most generally acclaimed film, but it still serves as a good reminder of his ability to harness the style of a film and to make it how he sees fit. It helps that most of it is good fun, too!
Returning to the pre-established focus on anti-establishment and corruption within organisations that we generally trust to respect safety, Crimson Tide looks at the conflict on a submarine between Lieutenant Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington, in one of his most energetic performances) and Captain Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman, who plays a villain so well it’s hard to believe) of whether to attack or to try to survive without using violence where unnecessary, to hunt or leave a larger chance to be hunted. With arresting red lights that coat the metallic scenery throughout and the claustrophobic surroundings, this one starts off with the making of a terrific thriller based on its premise alone, and it pleases me to say that it absolutely delivers on that front, as well as many others. The script for this one is razor sharp, consistently impressive with the whip-smart back and forth dialogues of conflict shared between the two leading men who both tear up the screen and damn near set it alight with their energy, and the cinematography is surprisingly beautiful considering the restrictive surroundings they’re forced to work with.
It’s a step up in severity for Scott to, as the majority of his work up to this point (with the exception of Revenge) had been quite joyful for the majority of its runtime, but this one has a surprisingly sharp and harsh bite to it should you underestimate it. This really marks a transformation from Scott from his more fun and free-wheeling films to his harsher and more adventurously serious later works.
The Fan (1996)
The Fan is another in the string of more serious and violent Scott films in the 1990s. Whilst this one is less focused on organisations and establishments, it is focused in on sports in a similar way to The Last Boy Scout, looking at the darker side of the sports industry which of course is so pervasive in everyday American life (American especially, but the rest of the world is also effected by this of course). And, on top of that, it casts Robert De Niro alongside Wesley Snipes… how can this not be great? The simple answer is that it’s not… but the longer answer looks at the way that Scott manages to take yet another rather cliched story of an avid fan turned rabid stalker and subverts it enough to make it feel as fresh and exciting as if it were a novel concept. De Niro really gives the film his all, too, channelling the same energy into The Fan as he did on Martin Scorsese’s wonderfully bombastic Cape Fear remake in 1991, just a few years before this. I always seem to have a blast seeing De Niro let loose, and here is probably when he does just that more than any other performance in his career… it’s an absolute marvel to see him interact with Snipes and even with himself and his surroundings, his performance is just brilliant. And Snipes manages to stand up to him very well too, giving one of his more grounded and serious performances as the sports star wrapped up in De Niro’s obsession.
Thankfully, we see the film from De Niro’s perspective, and so we don’t realise early on how his character will transform in front of us from a struggling father to a man hell bent on destruction and causing chaos for others. Scott leaves a place for sympathy for his character early on, and it is this conflict within his character that makes this film so exhilarating to watch. He gradually becomes progressively unhinged and unpredictable, until it feels like only the smallest wrongdoing would make him snap.
Scott’s visuals also seem to take a step up here, with the finale being shot in dim rain but somehow still looking inexplicably beautiful. This is where his visuals became more over the top, more hyperrealistic (see Baudrillard’s theory of hyper-reality) and really started to almost fight against his film’s sense of reality to serve a more fantastical version of events. It’s a really beautiful film at a fair few points, and other than that, it is incredibly intense and certainly deserves to be seen for its wonderful tension alone. A personal favourite thriller of mine, and a wonderful film that anyone should see! It makes for great entertainment and truly thrilling filmmaking – the best of both worlds rolled into one!
Enemy of the State is really the film to be talked about when it comes to Scott’s general theme of anti-establishment, corruption and modern paranoia. Running hot with the tagline that clearly states “It’s not paranoia if they’re really after you.’, and from there it only gets more afraid and more concerned about the power that the government have over the everyman. Will Smith surprisingly gives a really good performance in this, but really the most interesting thing about it is the focus on how the government can take ahold of everyday people if they want to and essentially force them into doing anything because of the power they are given. Scott questions who decides who gets this power, and what do they do to earn this trust from everybody else, and it is his asking of these questions that makes Enemy of the State so interesting from the get-go.
It’s also still not afraid to be thrilling in a fun way, which thankfully doesn’t detract anything from its generally anxious statement about the government’s power (especially as technology advances and more can be done to people directly through it – the film’s problem starts due to a digital camera, and the technological focus only increases from there. Scott’s focus on tech seems to become more fearful for a moment here, which is really interesting considering that he would be one of the pioneers of Hollywood digital filmmaking less than a decade later! But we’ll talk about his digital work next time…), but only makes this more fun to watch and admire. The choreography of these chase and fight sequences are absolutely electrifying, and the dialogue is equally thrilling, to the point that it’s really quite difficult to not be on board with this one. It’s great, it’s angry, it’s anxious, it just hits the mark so beautifully and acts as a perfect way to close Scott’s work for the 20th century.
Spy Game (2001)
Scott opened the twenty first century with Spy Game, yet another film with a focus on the government not caring about people as much as they really should, this time from the insider perspective (in a similar way to Crimson Tide). The film focuses on Robert Redford, who is about to retire, finding himself on a mission to rescue a colleague who has been captured and arrested in China after the CIA say that they’re willing to let him die in order to avoid potentially causing an international scandal. Casting Brad Pitt alongside him, who is as charismatic as ever (Scott has some way of dragging charisma out of his actors that is always quite impressive, really), the film is a suitable close to Scott’s work with celluloid as it looks both forward and backwards, also operating as both hopeful and fearful of what the future may hold. It acts as a strange meeting point of what would be the future for his work and what we had already seen, and essentially served as a preparation for the future as well as a deserved farewell to some of his previous themes.
Now, between Spy Game and this film, Man On Fire, Tony Scott came to understand digital filmmaking… and this is where his work gets REALLY interesting. Gone are the days of simpler editing, Scott now employed an entirely new style to fit with the technological advancement that came between the two films that focused on being as hyperactively modern as humanly possible. Of course, with this comes a certain alienation to some audiences, and also runs the risk of becoming outdated *very* quickly as tech continued to advance, but somehow neither of these seem to have really affected Man on Fire at all. In fact, this is maybe Scott’s most liked film when it comes to general audiences, surprisingly.
The film is focused on the story of John Creasy (Denzel Washington, in another one of his finest performances) who becomes a bodyguard for a little girl in Mexico City, and finds himself bonding with her to the point that, when she’s kidnapped, there isn’t anything he won’t do to find her and save her. Of course, since this film released, this plot has become rather commonplace due to films like Taken (the entire trilogy, but especially the first – it’s almost a carbon copy of the plot to this), but at the time it was somewhat new, and of course the focus is primarily on the digital stylisation of it all which is the most exciting thing about it. This isn’t to take away from the story though – I can imagine that even if this were another Scott effort shot on celluloid (as some parts of this are) it would still work wonders, but it is that refreshing digital editing and cinematography that gives this an even stronger visual style that Scott had even shown before and made it stand out even more when compared to other blockbusters at the time.
It’s easy to see why digital has become such a strong debate point considering that this was one of the films that really pioneered its use in mainstream Hollywood, along with Attack of the Clones (Lucas, 2002) and Collateral (Mann, 2004), because the styles of these directors are so bold and unafraid to really experiment in depth with what was possible due to digital’s introduction to cinema. Man on Fire is exciting enough to watch for its storyline and its brilliant performances (especially the central one from Denzel, who manages to channel just enough vulnerability in his character to earn the sympathy of the audience but also ensures never to let his guard down, which makes him so interesting as he is as conflicted within himself as he is with the kidnappers), but the digital also opens it up to a great deal of technical debate, as some of Scott’s earlier films did.
The introduction of digital to Scott feels like some beautiful cinematic synthesis, and what would be even more exciting if the even more experimental films he would make after Man on Fire…
Domino (2005)
Domino is perhaps Tony Scott’s most generally disliked film. It saddens me a little to say that I’ve spoken to quite a few fans of his who say that this is the only film he’s directed that they’re not especially interested in, but I can’t help but find this interesting too. To me, Scott has been about excess (in smaller, more subtle ways most of the time) since the start of his career. The Hunger doesn’t seem overly interested in it, but from Top Gun onwards there is this intrinsic focus buried deep down within many of Scott’s films on excess, primarily on cinema excess with his visual style. His camera is almost always moving, his editing is frequently very quickly paced, his action sequences always feel quite fantastical (all by design, of course)… but in Domino, thanks to his working with digital again, Scott took this focus on excess and enhanced it to the nth degree, making one of the most insane and least accessible blockbusters of recent memory, if not of all time – a film that can take a proud spot next to the likes of Bad Boys II (Bay, 2003) and Hereafter (Eastwood, 2010) as mainstream movies that seem to have gone completely off the rails in pursuit of something entirely different to general entertainment.
I’m not sure that there is a single shot in Domino that hasn’t been visually manipulated. The film is drenched, smothered in this hazy yellow and green colour grade, the camera leers over the female characters (and the male, come to think of it), there’s a genuinely endless pit of superimposition usage, the action is sharply edited, the script is vulgar and oftentimes really quite vile, Keira Knightley gives her all and there are so many things happening at every point of the film that it seems as if an entire world is collected within the screen – a world of deafening gunshots, of sheer excess of guns, drugs and sex, of the most filthy, vile characters imaginable, etc, etc. By taking these ideas that have been in the majority of his other work in a rather realistic way (or at least, compared to this they seem realistic – I’m not sure I can say that many of Scott’s films care much to be true to life) and flipping the switch to place them in another world, using the digital camera’s new look, the modern colour grading abilities, an endless amount of different editing techniques, his huge budget, Scott made one of the most impossibly innovative and breathtaking films I have ever had the pleasure of laying eyes on. It’s just insane to watch, trying to take it all in seems like an impossible, Sisyphean task, and Scott is so clearly revelling in what he’s doing. He may have temporarily forgotten to focus on any real themes within the story, or even a plot (it’s quite difficult to keep up with what’s going on here – but at least it boils down to insane thrills, anyway), but those themes come to the forefront due to the way that this film is put together.
I have heard many a complaint about the treatment of Keira Knightley’s character in the film, saying that the camera leers over her, which isn’t entirely wrong – but Scott’s camera in this film leers over everyone and everything. There are so many intense close-ups on guns, on money, on drugs, on men’s abs and on women until it becomes almost dizzying. Scott seems to be saying that the life lived and led by these bounty hunters is one that is almost animalistic by nature, only interested in what is instinctually attractive – power (money, guns), freedom (drugs) and sex – and it is this viewing of Scott’s usual cinematic world through an entirely new lens that this has to be my favourite film he has produced. It’s utterly insane, like seeing Stan Brakhage directing a Transformers film, and yet it works so brilliantly that it’s hard to believe. To say that Scott came into the digital age with open arms may be an understatement.
Deja Vu (2006)
After Domino, Scott did admittedly step back a little, but the emphasis of that sentence belongs on ‘a little’, as Deja Vu certainly doesn’t shy away from innovative and progressive ideas. Hell, the film is focused on time travel. Deja Vu also features yet another brilliant Denzel Washington performance as FBI agent Doug Carlin, a man who finds himself investigating a terrorist attack using ‘new technology’ (time-travelling CCTV!) to see the events, before eventually finding a way to transfer into the events of the past himself. Now, I’m certainly no scientist and I can imagine that if you are this film probably seems really quite silly, however, this doesn’t mean that it isn’t just a phenomenal example of an action thriller. I love the way that this one focuses in on the power of digital – Scott, without a doubt, did this on his previous two films working with the format, however this time he also makes it a theme within the film, looking at the power of technical progression for humanity by literally having Denzel use different technology to save a life, and eventually a bunch of lives – and uses digital filmmaking at the same time. By this time, he had evidently adjusted to using digital and was just enjoying showboating the new technology to those who hadn’t yet seen what it could really do.
The film is also a damn good romance. The romance is only really introduced to give the film additional stakes beyond the ides that a group of faceless people will be blown up if Denzel doesn’t succeed (Scott’s post 9/11 focus on terrorism only follows suit with a whole host of other directors who, consciously or subconsciously, saw the tragedy come through in their films after the fact, from Spielberg to Bay) by giving a face to one of these to-be victims and also adding in romantic elements to this, maybe not so explicitly but let’s just say that the implications are made clear through the script and the chemistry between the two…
This is also the least bombastic of all of Scott’s digital films. He seems to let go of a lot of his excessive focuses throughout the majority of this film, clearly enjoying his time travel focus more than expected to the point that it is only really the scenes on time travel and the action scenes that come close to Scott’s usual visual traits (up to this point, he would actually carry many of the newer stylistic flairs he started here into his final two films!) and this makes space for a more subdued Scott, the one we saw at certain points throughout The Hunger and in moments when his thematic focuses overwhelmed his visuals. It’s a beautiful film, both visually and emotionally, and serves as a wonderful entry point for both Scott’s late work and digital cinema as a whole. There are few films like it, so hopefully focuses on a future that seems so dark.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
Opening with Jay-Z’s 99 Problems as we sweep through the streets of New York City, as busy as ever, Tony Scott’s remake of the 1974 crime classic of the same name (albeit with the numbers written as words rather than as numbers…) is another one of his best achievements. I’m sure that it’ll surprise no one that this film also stars Denzel Washington in the leading role, and even less surprisingly will be that the performance is a stunner (maybe the best he gave Scott, but it is hard to really say – he’s a shockingly consistent actor), but the surprise may lay in the fact that Scott casts no other than John Travolta to oppose him as the train robber. It’ll also serve as no surprise that this is another film shot on digital, and another film focuses on how technology and people interact with one another in the twenty first century. This time, the focus is on communication, with the majority of the film being focused on the conversation held between Denzel Washington and John Travolta as Travolta keenly holds on to his train hostages and tries to negotiate his way out of his situation with Denzel, most of the time to no avail. The way that Scott goes about shooting this conversation is what is so interesting. Of course, with the technology being the transmitter of communication here, essentially blocking the two men from each other whilst also being their means of communication throughout, there is no way to really shoot an efficient, typical wide shot, close-up, reverse shot conversation here, and so Scott shoots this conversation like a phone call, with sweeping single shots that focus on the facial expressions and body language of each character so that they communicate with the audience privately without the need for exposition but also communicate with each other clearly. Scott’s formal changes are fascinating here as they clearly highlight his new approach to technology, a changed one from his early career that invites the new (not that this is a new thing, but technology has advanced so much and so quickly that there was a need for a new approach, of course).
I think that this is one of Scott’s most exciting films, the framing is just impeccable and the fact that Scott manages to direct a film which is mostly focused on a single conversation (albeit one with high stakes) will probably never not be impressive to me. It’s a wonderfully entertaining film, one that seems to fly by as most great films tend to, and the performances are just brilliant.
Unstoppable (2010)
One can only try to predict where Scott would have gone after Unstoppable, his final film. It is such a shame to have lost the man at any point, but the way in which he passed on and the fact that he could have been alive so much longer if it weren’t for his misfortune is crushing, and makes it really quite hard to talk about Unstoppable without questioning what may have come after had Scott lived on and continued to follow the path that he was digging for himself (and for most digital filmmakers to follow.) Unstoppable looks at the downside of modern technology, poising the question of what can happen when technology is out of the control of mankind, using a runaway train as a microcosm to represent this idea, and it has to be said, this microcosm works wonders and creates a fascinating conflict between man, who tries his hardest and actually ends up relying on the aid from other technology, once again including the digital camera for one, and technology which is nothing more than a means to an end in this case, albeit one that has gone horribly wrong unintentionally. It’s interesting to see Scott create such a dichotomy between technology and man when before he has been more focused on man using technology for his own gain (whether right or wrong, technology is often the driving force of the conflict in Scott’s digital films, or especially the later ones), but here there is a clear line drawn between that which is helpful to man and what isn’t, suggesting that if technology were to be out of man’s control then chaos is sure to follow, and is sure to be almost, if not entirely, impossible to harness control over without the use of other technology (this time under the control of man once more, of course). It’s an interesting, if somewhat subtle, change in perspective and it comes through in a rather subdued fashion. The suggestion of change in ideology also makes it harder to stomach this as a final work, when the room for growth was clearly there and also clearly ready to be occupied by these new ideas.
Scott’s cinematography also takes an interesting turn here, opting for a more verite style of camerawork as opposed to his usually more slick style which seems more planned out beforehand. It’s hard to say if this is anything more than an interesting visual change that adds to the immediacy of the events of the plot or if it is intended to suggest something more, but I find it an interesting point of change, another suggestion of changing styles and ideas that will sadly never be fulfilled entirely. Unstoppable is one hell of a final film, as much as I wish it wasn’t one, and it definitely deserves to be seen by those fans of Michael Mann’s digital work. In fact, Mann is quite similar to Scott in many ways – it’s not entirely coincidental that I have written on both so extensively.
Anyway, this brings us to an end of Tony Scott’s work… the short films are also interesting, but they only really tell us what we already know about Scott in smaller ways, so they’re not necessarily too important to talk about in terms of his changing style, but they are good fun and should be watched!! To close, here is my personal (and always changing, so don’t take my word for this entirely, especially if reading a while after I have posted this!) ranking of his films, from least favourite to favourite! Thank you very much for reading.
The Last Boy Scout (6/10)
Beverly Hills Cop 2 (6/10)
Spy Game (7/10)
True Romance (7/10)
Top Gun (7/10)
Enemy of the State (7/10)
Crimson Tide (8/10)
Days of Thunder (8/10)
Man on Fire (8/10)
The Hunger (8/10)
Unstoppable (9/10)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (9/10)
The Fan (9/10)
Revenge (9/10)
Deja Vu (9/10)
Domino (10/10)
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A selection of Original Artworks and Fine Art prints by Vincent Reid
"Tree of Life" - Original Pencil Art
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"Tree of Life"
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This drawing is loosely based on one of the typical Baobabs found around Mapungubwe in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
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Born in 1970 and raised on a farm in Zimbabwe, I have always been a close observer of the outdoors and every bit of spare time I had was spent in the hills or along the rivers of the family farm. Zimbabwe in the 80's was a socialist state and as a result, there was very little available by way of art materials in my high school art department, hence I started working in pencil, doing portraits and wildlife drawings for my friends.After completing my schooling in Harare I studied interior design and worked for 18 years in the exhibition and events industry as a designer/business owner and during this time I focused almost entirely on computer aided design. This, together with the management and growing of my company, meant that creative expression took a back seat. In 2011, having grown disillusioned and unfulfilled in this line of work I made a life changing decision to pursue a full-time art career. My desire was to shake off the yoke of mediocrity which was prevalent in the industry and focus on developing my own most basic creative ability; drawing.My family and I relocated to the country town of Howick in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands of South Africa so that I could pursue art as a career in peaceful, rural and creative environment; a move that has proven beneficial to all involved.Art and the pursuit of my subject material has taken me to some of Southern Africa's most beautiful locations and the wildlife and nature depicted in this book have been observed in awesome places such as Etosha National Park in Namibia, Mana Pools and Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, Chobe National Park in Botswana, and Hluhluwe, Addo Elephant Park and Mapungubwe in South Africa; places such as these are what makes me drawn to Africa.
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Home Products Point Lobos Framed Painting by Brian Blood
Point Lobos Framed Painting by Brian Blood
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Brian Blood began his professional life as a graphic artist and art director in Boston, Massachusetts. Although Blood's career was successful, he still wanted to be a fine art painter. He moved across the country to San Francisco and enrolled at the Academy of Art College. Receiving his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Fine Art. For the past fifteen years Brian Blood has been painting full time as well as returning to teach at his alma mater in the Fine Art department. "I love to see the looks on the faces of students as they begin to understand the thrill of painting outdoors," he says with great satisfaction.
Primarily a plein-air painter, Blood has recently moved to the picturesque Monterey Peninsula. "After living in San Francisco for the last 15 years, I can really concentrate and focus on my work here in Monterey," Blood reveals.
Only minutes away are Point Lobos and Garrapata State Parks, two of his favorite subjects to explore and paint. He also enjoys traveling down the California coastline and painting in the southland areas.
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Suicides Up in San Diego County
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San Diego, California - After three years of holding steady, the number and rate of people who killed themselves in San Diego County went up in 2017.
According to the San Diego County Suicide Prevention Council’s 2018 Report to the Community released today, there were 458 deaths by suicide last year, 27 more than in 2016.
“Suicide continues to be a serious concern in our region,” said Dr. Michael Krelstein, clinical director of Behavioral Health Services for the County Health and Human Services Agency. “We must do all we can to prevent people from taking their lives and it starts by knowing the warning signs of suicide.”
The annual report provides a comprehensive look at suicide in the region and brings together data from multiple sources for the years 2013 through 2017.
Among the suicide report’s findings:
Total number of suicides: 458 compared to 431 in 2016.
Suicide rate (per 100,000 population): 13.8 compared to 13.1 in 2016.
Emergency department discharges due to self-inflicted injury: 3,098 in 2016 (most recent year available) compared to 3,248 in 2015—a drop of 5 percent.
The percentage of crisis calls, as opposed to calls about other mental health issues, to the County’s Access and Crisis Line: 31.4 in 2017 vs. 25.7 in 2016. The line gets about 90,000 calls each year.
Visits to It’s Up to Us, the County’s suicide prevention website: 265,771 in 2017 vs. 246,273 in 2016—an 8 percent increase.
Number of students who seriously considered suicide: 14.5 percent in 2016 vs 17.5 in 2014 (data gathered every other year).
People who participated in suicide prevention trainings conducted by the Suicide Prevention Council: 3,627 in 2017 vs. 1,937 in 2016—an 87 percent increase.
The great majority of people who die by suicide show warning signs. Knowing how to spot them and what you can do may help save a life.
“Helping people get help for a mental disorder is part of the County’s Live Well San Diego vision of healthy, safe and thriving residents,” Krelstein said. “When a friend or a loved one comes to you for help, take it seriously. Ask if he or she is having thoughts of suicide or ending it all. That simple conversation can help save a life.”
To help curb suicide in San Diego, the County has several ongoing prevention efforts, including the It’s Up to Us campaign, the Mental Health First Aid and Question, Persuade and Refer trainings, and the Access and Crisis Line, a confidential counseling and referral hotline for people who feel overwhelmed or are experiencing a mental health crisis.
“The good news is that fewer people are ending up in the emergency room because of a self-inflicted wound and more San Diegans are reaching out for help and calling the hotline,” Krelstein said.
Suicide is preventable. That is why it is important to learn the warning signs, risk factors and behavioral cues of people considering ending their lives.
For more information about suicide, risk factors, warning signs, how to get help, resources and training that is available, visit It’s Up to Us or call the County’s Access and Crisis Line at (888) 724-7240.
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HomeNewsNominations for the John Maddox Prize 2020 open
Nominations for the John Maddox Prize 2020 open
Researchers who have shown great courage and integrity in standing up for science and scientific reasoning can be nominated until 11 May 2020.
Nominations are open for the eighth annual John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science, which is a joint initiative between the charity Sense about Science and the leading international scientific journal, Nature. The prize recognises the work of individuals anywhere in the world who promote sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so. Each year there is one winner, and an additional prize for an early career researcher. In 2019 there were over 200 nominations from 38 countries.
Our brilliant judging panel from 2019 has returned, with two new additions, Professor Terrence Forrester, Chief Scientist & Managing Director, UWI Solutions for Developing Countries at the University of the West Indies and Professor Dennis Lo, Director, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences. See the full list of judges.
This prize commemorates Sir John Maddox, who was a passionate and tireless communicator, a defender of science, and a writer and editor at Nature for 22 years. Sir John engaged with difficult debates and encouraged others to do the same. The winner of the John Maddox Prize receives £3000, and the award is presented at a reception hosted at Wellcome Collection in November.
Read about past winners.
Find out how to nominate.
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Dr Hamid Khan
Programme Manager - Research Culture and Quality
Hamid joined Sense about Science in January 2019 as the Public Engagement Coordinator and is now Programme Manager for Research Culture and Quality. He leads Sense about Science’s international Quality and Peer Review programme promoting open and honest discussion of research quality among the research and scholarly publishing communities. He advocates positive changes in research culture that would help to put quality at the heart of the public, policy and media discussion of science and evidence. He is a strong supporter of researchers involving the public at the earliest stage in disseminating their research findings. An experienced public engagement specialist, panel chair and speaker, Hamid leads the Voice of Young Science (VoYS) network, helping early career researchers and young scientists build confidence in media, policy and public engagement. He is the first point of contact for the thousands of ECRs and volunteers in the network who want to stand up for science.
Hamid also performs the essential role of recruiting and managing our brilliant interns and manages the nomination and judging processes for the John Maddox Prize.
Hamid has a PhD in nanomaterials chemistry from the University of Southampton, where he also completed a Master’s in chemistry.
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Star Wars: The High Republic
Star Wars: The High Republic is a subseries of the Star Wars media franchise. It is set 200 years before the events of the Skywalker saga and 800 years after the fall of the Old Republic. The series was originally intended to debut with the Light of the Jedi novel in August 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until January 2021.
About Star Wars: The High Republic in brief
Star Wars: The High Republic is a subseries of the Star Wars media franchise. It is set 200 years before the events of the Skywalker saga and 800 years after the fall of the Old Republic. In-universe, the initiating event of the subfranchise is ‘The Great Disaster’ The series was originally intended to debut with the Light of the Jedi novel in August 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until January 2021.
The first chapter of the novel was released in June 2020 through IGN. In November 2020, the second chapter was released on StarWars. com, followed by the next six through the Penguin Random House website.
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Team Canada steals extra-end triumph to remain unbeaten at 2016 World Men’s
Curling Canada - BASEL, Switzerland — It was a perfect opening weekend in the win column, even it wasn’t always perfection on the ice. But it’s just all that Team Canada could ask for out of the opening two days of the...
COLES-LYSTER DOMINATES AT JUNIOR TRACK NATIONALS WITH FOUR TITLES IN TWO DAYS
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Team Canada pulls out extra-end win at 2016 world men’s championship
Curling Canada - BASEL, Switzerland — A frustrating afternoon finally came to a satisfying end for Team Canada on Sunday at the 2016 World Men’s Curling Championship, presented by Ford of Canada. After struggling early with ice and weight control against Denmark’s...
Amelie Kretz Solid in Sixth at Triathlon World Cup in New Zealand
Triathlon Canada - NEW PLYMOUTH, NZ—With the race to the 2016 Olympic Summer Games gaining momentum, Canada’s Amelie Kretz cranked out a solid sixth-place finish at the Triathlon World Cup race in New Plymouth, New Zealand on Sunday. The 22 year...
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What’s behind California’s lawsuit against Westlands, raising Shasta dam?
Wayne Western, Jr. May 21, 2019, 11:36 am May 23, 2019
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and his allies have filed a lawsuit to stop Federal water users from participating in the raising of Shasta Dam, a federal dam.
The lawsuit names Westlands Water District and “Does 1-20.”
Plain and simple, this is a lawsuit waged against Central Valley farmers.
The suit alleges raising the dam 18.5 feet which would produce an additional 630,000 acre-feet of water would harm the environment and is against the law.
The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1972 bars a State agency from participating in any way in the “planning or construction of any dam, reservoir, diversion, or other water impoundment facility that could have an adverse effect on the free-flowing condition of the McCloud River, or on its wild trout fishery.”
Shasta Dam is cornerstone infrastructure for Central Valley agriculture. It has been in use, storing water, since 1945. Conversations about raising Shasta Dam have been on-going since at least the 1980s.
The suit to stop a water district and Federal contractor from aiding in raising Shasta Dam has brought out a vast array of environmental groups, including the National Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice, Friends of the River, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, Institute of Fisheries Resources, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, and Golden Gate Salmon Association.
Westlands isn’t taking the suit lying down and argues that it isn’t even violating the law.
“The District explained its actions in two letters in February to the State Water Resources Control Board and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife,” Westlands Water District said in a statement. “As explained in those letters, if Reclamation were to decide to proceed to enlarge Shasta Dam, federal law (the Water Infrastructure Improvement for the Nation Act) requires Reclamation to have a local cost share partner or partners.”
Westlands continued that it had not even made a determination regarding raising Shasta Dam and that it was only conducting environmental reviews surrounding the project to determine whether it could become that partner with the Federal government.
Becerra’s latest tit-for-tat in the war against Trump and the Federal government doesn’t have much impact on Trump or the Federal government.
Instead, it’s attacking the Central Valley farmers and communities expecting water from their taps.
Wayne Western, Jr.
Wayne Western, Jr. the The Sun’s Agriculture Pulse contributor, writing on the San Joaquin Valley’s agricultural community and water issues.
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Jake Haener withdraws from transfer portal, opening door for a return to Fresno State
Daniel Gligich December 8, 2021, 6:54 pm December 8, 2021
Just one week after saying his goodbyes to the Central Valley, quarterback Jake Haener is not jumping ship after all.
Haener entered the transfer portal on Nov. 30, reportedly with the intent to follow former Fresno State head coach Kalen DeBoer to Washington.
But Haener withdrew his name from the portal Wednesday, which was first reported by 247 Sports.
In an announcement Haener posted last week on social media, the quarterback called the decision to enter the transfer portal “the hardest of [his] life.”
My message. pic.twitter.com/Cp0FNp95st
— Jake (@jakehaener10) December 2, 2021
While Haener’s reversal comes on the same day that Fresno State brought back Jeff Tedford as head coach, sources indicated to The Sun earlier this week that Haener’s decision may have come from an inability to transfer for the second time in his collegiate career.
Per the NCAA transfer rules, a player who has already transferred once would only be eligible to transfer a second time as a grad-transfer.
It is unclear if Haener has graduated from college and has received his undergraduate degree. His page on Fresno State’s website says that he is a communications major.
Other players on the team who have already graduated, such as offensive lineman Alex Akingbulu, are noted as being enrolled in a master’s program.
And even if a graduate entered the transfer portal who has already transferred once, the player would only be eligible to transfer if granted a waiver by the NCAA – a process that by no means is guaranteed.
There has not been an announcement regarding Haener’s status for the New Mexico Bowl on Dec. 18. Earlier in the week, interim head coach Lee Marks, who will coach the ‘Dogs in the bowl game, said either Jaylen Henderson or Logan Fife would be the starting quarterback.
And just because Haener withdrew his name from the transfer portal, it does not mean that he will play another snap with the Bulldogs. Haener, who has completed five years of college football, could turn pro and declare for the 2022 NFL Draft.
However, if he decides to finish out his collegiate career, he will return to play with Tedford, the coach that brought him in from Washington before the 2019 season.
In his second year as the starting quarterback, Haener completed 67.5 percent of his passes for 3,810 yards, 32 touchdowns and 9 interceptions.
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Bullet Proof Lovers release video for “I Am My Radio”
Posted on February 15, 2017 by Olivier in Uncategorized // 0 Comments
Bullet Proof Lovers have released a video for their song “I Am My Radio” which is from their upcoming album Shot Through The Heart, which will be released via Rum Bar Records on March 31, 2017.
Sleaze Roxx stated the following in its review of Bullet Proof Lovers‘ self-titled debut EP which was released back in 2014: “Bullet Proof Lovers provide simple often catchy rock n’ roll that is easy to review. Sophistication is definitely not one word that I would use to describe Bullet Proof Lovers‘ music. It’s just straightforward rock n’ roll with lots of hooks and a bit of a punk edge to it. Kurt Baker‘s vocals aren’t the greatest but at the same time they are mostly listenable all the way through. Baker seems to know his limitations and does not really extend himself out of his comfort zone.”
Sleaze Roxx went on to say in its review: “The problem with Bullet Proof Lovers is that the songs are so simple, and while catchy, aren’t that memorable. In other words, the songs are instantly likeable but seem to lack substance for me to want to listen to them over and over again. Would I enjoy hearing Bullet Proof Lovers‘ music live even if it was for the first time? Most likely yes. Will Bullet Proof Lovers‘ self-titled album be a go to record to listen to in the years to come? No. It’s simply a fun uncomplicated raw rock n’ roll album that is for the most part instantly likeable but which will likely get a bit boring to listen to after awhile.”
Bullet Proof Lovers‘ “I Am MY Radio” video:
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I’m my radio (“Shot Through the heart LP”)
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Former Anthrax singer John Bush more open to playing entire set of Anthrax songs
Posted on March 5, 2018 by Olivier in Uncategorized // 0 Comments
Ex-Anthrax and current Armored Saint frontman John Bush was recently interviewed by Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice.
Bush fronted Anthrax from 1992 to 2005 during which the group released the studio albums, Sound Of White Noise (1993), Stomp 442 (1995), Volume 8: The Threat Is Real (1998) and We’ve Come For You All (2003), as well as the live album, Music Of Mass Destruction (2004).
In terms of whether he would ever consider playing an all Anthrax set live, Bush advised (as transcribed by The Metal Voice): “I have talked about possibly doing that and it is something that I am a little more open minded to doing more so than I was 5-10 years ago. It just has to be the right scenario. There has to be enough of an interest. It has to be the right band. It would have to be sporadic shows maybe some festivals. It has to feel right. It would have to be the right situation, we will see.”
With respect to the status of Armored Saint‘s follow up to their 2015 album Win Hands Down, Bush stated: “We have a couple of songs that me and Joey Vera kind of worked on, a couple more that we though of working on. Gonza and Phil Sandoval also have a couple of ideas that they wanted to send us. I think that realistically we can get a record out in the middle of next year if we are optimistic. It would be great to have all the writing done by the end of this year. Armored Saint can try to be a little quicker in the way that we write songs as long as we feel like there is quality control on it. We love ‘Win Hands Down‘ our last album, we think it’s a great record, we just want to pick up where we left off in terms of musical direction on this upcoming album, to continue with that style of the last album. The new songs kind of write themselves.”
The Metal Voice‘s interview with Armored Saint frontman John Bush:
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New Orleans sanitation ‘hoppers’ form union, strike for hazard pay, PPE,...
New Orleans – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. first marched with striking Memphis sanitation workers on March 28, 1968. They were demanding better working conditions and the respect and dignity due them. Their signs proclaimed, “I Am a Man.”
Bay View turns 40! Part 2
Now, as the San Francisco Bay View newspaper’s 40th birthday year comes to a close, is the time to bring up to date the historical sketch of our paper that I began with Part 1 in the January paper. Piles of old papers rest on my desk, waiting to be read once again – a banquet of stories and pictures of our lives, our hopes, our goals. Let me let you taste the flavor of the freedom we continue to fight for in the age of Trump.
Third Street Stroll …
The morning of Dec. 7 (2006) found me traveling through the UPPER AND LOWER NINTH WARD of NEW ORLEANS, where hundreds and thousands of homes were destroyed by the aftermath of HURRICANE KATRINA in August 2005! The storm ripped the hearts and souls of residents who fled the City to other parts of the country now waiting to COME BACK HOME.
‘Katrina: After the Flood’
The New York Times sent Gary Rivlin to Baton Rouge and New Orleans, days after the storm, to cover Katrina as an outsider. Rivlin’s instincts had him looking forward “to the mess ahead. Eventually the flood waters would recede. How would New Orleans go about the complicated task of rebuilding?” This carefully researched, beautifully written book describes that process from then until now.
From heroes to villains: NOPD verdict reveals post-Katrina history
In an historic verdict with national implications, five New Orleans police officers were convicted on Friday of civil rights violations for killing unarmed African Americans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and could face life in prison when sentenced later this year.
Judge hands out tough sentences in post-Katrina killing by police
On March 31, a federal judge sentenced two former New Orleans police officers for killing Henry Glover and incinerating his body during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One got 25 years for shooting Glover with an assault rifle and the other got 17 years for torching the man’s corpse.
New clues emerge in post-Katrina vigilante shooting at Algiers Point
Three days after Hurricane Katrina turned New Orleans into a ghost town, somebody shot Donnell Herrington twice in Algiers Point, ripping a hole in his throat. Herrington, who is African-American, says he was ambushed by a group of armed white men who attacked without warning or provocation.
Government goes on trial for Katrina flooding
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina are finally getting their day in court. In a trial lasting most of a month that went to the judge Thursday, May 14, in New Orleans, a group of residents is holding the Army Corps of Engineers responsible for the flooding that occurred in the wake of Katrina.
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Stephanie Gail Lee of Sapulpa, born August 29, 1968, to Michael and Glenda Lee, went to be with her Lord and Savior on December 25, 2021 at the age of 53.
Stephanie met her soul mate, Truman Canady, Jr. in 1987 and have been loyally in love every since. Stephanie and Truman have raised four sons together, Ryan, Trevin, Devin, and Truman III. Although, Stephanie was a woman of many talents, the versatility in her skill-set was most enjoyed through her title roles as a full time mother and homemaker and of course the most precious mate that her Truman could ever ask for. She was a caring and compassionate friend to many, and one who was always willing to help out in any way possible.
Stephanie is preceded in death by her parents Michael & Glenda and one brother, Steven.
She is survived by her husband Truman Canady, Jr, her sons Ryan Canady, Trevin Canady, Devin Canady, and Truman Canady III, two grandchildren, Tristin Canady and Paislee Canady, one sister, Deanna
Stephanie will be loved and missed by all who were fortunate enough to have her in their lives.
Visitation and Viewing are scheduled for January 3, 2021, from 10:00AM-12:00PM at Smith Funeral Home, Sapulpa, Oklahoma, with a 2:00PM Graveside service at South Heights Cemetery, Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Services are under the direction of Smith Funeral Home, Sapulpa. .
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