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Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration patrols to cost Arizona taxpayers over $200 million
In this Aug. 26, 2019, file photo, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio poses for a portrait at his private office in Fountain Hills, Arizona. The taxpayer costs for the racial profiling lawsuit stemming from the immigration patrols launched a decade ago by Arpaio are expected to reach $202 million by the summer of 2022. Officials approved a tentative county budget Monday, May 17, 2021, that provides $31 million for compliance costs in the fiscal year that begins on July 1. No one in county government can say exactly when those costs will start to decline or end. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
The costs to taxpayers from a racial profiling lawsuit stemming from former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration patrols in metro Phoenix a decade ago are expected to reach $202 million by summer 2022.
Officials approved a tentative county budget Monday that provides $31 million for the cost of complying with court orders in the fiscal year that begins on July 1. No one can say exactly when the costs from the 13-year-old lawsuit will start to decline.
The growth in spending “is enough to make any of us cry as we’re trying to be fiscal stewards of the county taxpayer money,” Supervisor Clint Hickman said.
Taxpayers in Arizona’s most populated county are on the hook for lawyer bills and the costs of complying with massive court-ordered overhauls of the sheriff’s office after a 2013 verdict concluded Arpaio’s officers had profiled Latinos in traffic patrols that targeted immigrants.
Arpaio, known for a tough-on-crime approach in his 24 years as sheriff that included forcing jail inmates to wear pink underwear and housing them in tents in triple-digit desert heat, targeted illegal immigration and was convicted of criminal contempt for disobeying a court order to stop his immigration patrols. His misdemeanor conviction was later pardoned by then-President Donald Trump.
The taxpayer spending is expected to continue until the Maricopa County sheriff’s office has fully complied with overhauling its traffic enforcement and internal affairs operations for three straight years.
Although some of the agency’s numbers are near or at 100%, the sheriff’s office hasn’t yet been deemed fully compliant.
Attorneys who pressed the case against the sheriff’s office have criticized the agency for traffic-stop studies since the profiling verdict showing deputies often treat drivers who are Hispanic and Black differently than other drivers, though the reports stopped short of saying Latinos were still being profiled.
The lawyers also have asked a judge to hold civil contempt-of-court hearings against Arpaio’s successor, Sheriff Paul Penzone, over a backlog of more than 1,700 internal affairs cases, each taking an average of 500 days to complete.
Penzone’s office said the funding and employees hired as part of the overhaul effort will need to remain in place once the agency is deemed fully compliant.
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“Effectively, this is the new ‘standard of policing’ and the majority of this funding will need to remain in the MCSO budget,” the sheriff’s office said. “MCSO is working diligently to come into full compliance with the Court orders.”
Raul Piña, who serves on a community advisory board set up to help improve trust in the sheriff’s office, said the funding is necessary so the agency can respect the constitutional rights of Hispanic people.
“Of course, we are tired of paying, but if you are a Hispanic vehicle operator, you are tired of being racially profiled at the same time — and the agency isn’t in a rush to stop that,” Piña said.
Arpaio’s immigration patrols, known as “sweeps,” involved large numbers of sheriff’s deputies converging on an area of metro Phoenix — including some Latino neighborhoods — over the course of several days to stop traffic violators and arrest other offenders.
Arpaio led 20 of the large-scale patrols from January 2008 through October 2011. Under Arpaio’s leadership, the agency continued doing immigration enforcement in smaller, more routine traffic patrols until spring 2013, leading to his criminal conviction.
On Monday, Arpaio said he doesn’t regret carrying out the immigration patrols and contends his crackdowns still helped reduce taxpayer costs for providing education and health care to immigrants in the United States illegally.
As for the financial costs of the profiling lawsuit, Arpaio said the spending on equipment and additional employees was needed anyway to modernize the agency.
“It’s a one-side type of story they (his critics) want to push out,” Arpaio said. “Don’t blame me for the money being spent.”
Over the years, taxpayers have paid a combined $18 million in legal fees to lawyers on both sides of the case and about $20 million for a team of experts that monitors the sheriff’s office.
The overwhelming majority of the spending goes toward hiring employees to help meet the court’s requirements. Penzone’s office said there are 192 positions budgeted for compliance, though 42 of them are vacant.
The court-ordered changes also include new training for deputies on making constitutional traffic stops, establishing a warning system to identify problematic behavior, equipping deputies with body-worn cameras and interventions for deputies flagged for having statistical differences from their peers in how they have treated Latinos.
The sheriff’s office was deemed 98% compliant in a first set of requirements for reforming its traffic patrol operations and 79% compliant in meeting a second set of requirements.
The agency is faring better with an overhaul that the judge ordered for its internal affairs operations, which under Arpaio had been criticized for biased decision-making aimed at protecting officials from accountability. It met 100% of a first set of requirements and 92% of a second set.
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Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader
Once, at a punk rock show in Kentucky, the lead singer of a Nashville band lamented the small turnout of the crowd. “I think Kentucky is more Southern than Tennessee,” he said.
By Brian R. Carpents, Tom Franklin
He meant it as an insult. “Southern” meant lame, redneck, and backward, but it was an incomplete definition, one riddled with the easy stereotypes and contempt some Southerners find only in themselves.
You’ll find a few of those characters in Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader, but this anthology is filled with writers whose work is anything but easy. Coeditor Brian Carpenter’s introduction defines 'grit lit' and 'rough south' fiction as, “typically blue collar or working class, mostly small towns, sometimes rural, occasionally but not always violent, usually but not necessarily Southern.” There’s drinking and cheating and all the other ingredients of a great country song, without the benefit of a catchy chorus.
Fine examples of this are Larry Brown’s “Samaritans”, a darkly funny twist on the idea of Southern hospitality, and an excerpt from Tim McLaurin’s The Acorn Plan, in which a man decides to “drink all the wine in the world” to teach his violent nephew a lesson.
The violence in many of these stories might be explained away by the poverty the characters endure or the cynical notion that there’s nothing much to do in the sticks. Maybe it’s both. Maybe it’s as Chris Offutt says in the introduction to “Melungeons”, that there is a “frontier mentality” in the South, but “tribulation under fire no longer exists. We’ve had to create our own.” His story “Melungeons” centers on two characters caught in a generations-old feud between two clans of hill people in eastern Kentucky, one just returned from a self-imposed exile and the other a permanent fixture of the landscape. There’s violence in the story, but there isn’t hate or desperation in it. It’s carried out as a duty, a chore like running to the post office or stopping to pick up a loaf of bread. It’s chilling.
These voices, the writers and their characters, are loud and rowdy, echoing on every page the joy and sweat and hate of a people torn up between their lot in life and their pride, a tension they can’t hope to reconcile, only tamp down deep with all the other emotions too ugly or sinful to reveal. There’s a chance you know someone from this world, or maybe you yourself are someone whose people identify where they’re from by naming a hill or hollow or, if specificity is required, a county. No matter where you’re from, violence, misery, and even hope run through all our lives, but the work in this anthology shows how, in the South, they run a little deeper.
Country Dark
By Chris Offutt
Feast of Snakes
By Harry Crews
Jeremy Estes has worked for Nashville Public Library since 2008. He loves comic books and dislikes the term “graphic novels”. He hosts Panel Discussion, a comics book club for adults, on the first Wednesday of the month at 12pm at the Main Library.
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Visita Iglesia Round South Cebu
Posted on March 30, 2018 August 12, 2020 by beyee
In the observance of Lent, Catholics never fail to visit different churches as their panata or vow to God as a sign of one’s faith. The Visita Iglesia is an ancient Roman Catholic tradition to visit seven churches on the evening of Maundy Thursday. Most devotees visit seven to fourteen churches to pray before the Blessed Sacrament.
This year, I went with my former colleagues and we visited fourteen churches in thirteen municipalities in the south of Cebu. It was a whole new experience for me on every stop and got to see old churches from the other side of Cebu away from the busy streets of the city.
Here’s my first experience doing a Visit Iglesia Round South Cebu 🙂
Station 1: The Last Supper
“Consider how Jesus, in obedience to the will of the Father, chose to be the bread of life and the cup of wine poured upon us for our salvation.”
Church: Sta. Ana Church
Municipality: Barili
The Sta. Ana Church of Barili was founded in 1614 and is the only parish in Cebu that is dedicated to St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.
The church stands at the end of a street lined with old trees. A beautifully wrought statue of Santa Ana is prominently placed at the church façade, just below the pediment.
The Barili church’s status was elevated in 2005 as a Diocesan Shrine as declared by then Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal.
Station 2: The Agony in Gethsemane
“Consider Jesus praying at the Garden of Gethsemane with his disciples all asleep. Yet, he still responded, ‘Not my will but your will be done.’”
Church: St. Francis of Assisi Church
Municipality: Dumanjug
St. Francis of Assisi Parish Church was constructed in 1854 when the Dumanjug Mission Post was made into a parish. It is the center of the faith of the people of Dumanjug.
The parish church is noted to be one of the few church structures in the country that was designed, accomplished, managed, and completed by the natives. The materials used were limestone, sea coral stones, and a native black wood called the Balayong, which was easily procured in the area at that time. The church was completed in 1864.
St. Francis of Assisi Church is one of the attractions of the town due to its heritage and historical significance.
Station 3: Jesus is Condemned to Death
“Consider how Jesus, after having been scourged and crowned by Pilate to die on the cross.”
Church: Our Lady of Sorrows Parish
Municipality: Ronda
Our Lady of Sorrows Parish was established on June 17, 1881, by Bishop Martin Alcocer.
Station 4: Jesus is Scourged and Crowned with Thorns
“Consider how Jesus was tortured and have the pain of countless lashes that hit his body. Crowned with thorns and not with gold, he tumbled himself and took upon his shoulders the punishment which was really meant for us.”
Church: St. Augustine Church
Municipality: Alcantara
Saint Augustine Church was built as a dedication for their patron saint, St. Augustine de Hippo.
Station 5: Jesus Carries the Cross
“Consider how Jesus, in making his journey with the cross on his shoulders, thought of us, and for us offered to his Father the death he was about to undergo.”
Church: San Juan Nepomuceno Church
Municipality: Moalboal
The ruins from what’s left of the San Juan Nepomuceno Church which was established as a parish in 1852. It was a stone church that was named after its patron saint, St. John Nepomuk, a saint of the Czech Republic.
Due to the natural deterioration of the church brought about by storms, earthquakes, and rust of time throughout the years of existence, the church was condemned in 2005.
The new church was constructed a few meters from the original church which only left with its façade for the people to see and wonder about the old church.
Station 6: Jesus Falls
“Consider how Jesus falls thrice. His flesh was torn due to the soldier’s whipping, he had lost a great quantity of blood which made him so weak and could hardly walk, thus he fell several times in his way for our redemption.”
Church: St. James Parish Church
Municipality: Badian
Badian was separated as a parish from Barili in 1825 under the advocacy of Santiago de Apostle. Its church is unique compared to other churches in the island province with its squat and unusual porticos façade with four quadrilateral columns supporting a triangular pediment.
The original belfry, now built at its side, used to sit atop the pediment but was taken down in 1990 upon the advice of NHI to ease pressure on the two free columns. The church still has its original and beautiful wooden retablo.
Station 7: Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry the Cross
“Consider how the Jews, seeing Jesus on the point of expiring, feared that he would die on the way. So they asked Simon the Cyrenian to carry the cross behind our Lord.”
Church: St. Francis Xavier Church
Municipality: Alegria
The town church is one of the oldest churches in the entire province of Cebu. It was built in 1857 and its structure faces the seaside town park, the Tañon Strait, and the beautiful island of Negros.
Station 8: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
“Consider how those women wept with compassion at seeing Jesus in deep suffering. But Jesus said to them, ‘Weep not for me, but for your children.’”
Church: San Nicolas de Tolentino Church
Municipality: Malabuyoc
The San Nicolas de Tolentino Church was built in 1863 made of coral stones just like the church in Samboan. Its façade is topped with a triangular pediment and decorated with a few bas reliefs.
It also features a royal of arms that indicates that the King of Spain supported the construction of the church. This insignia is carved into the stone above its main entrance. The structure is noted to be cruciform.
Station 9: Jesus is Stripped of His Garments and Nailed on the Cross
“Consider how Jesus was roughly stripped of his garments that he was also stripped of his skin. After being placed on the cross he extended his hands and was nailed. He offered to His eternal Father the sacrifice of His death for our salvation.”
Church: Saint Gregory the Great Parish Church
Municipality: Ginatilan
Saint Gregory the Great Parish Church is the living witness of Ginatilans rich history and living proof of the deep faith of the people living in the municipality. The church of baroque architecture was built on February 2, 1829.
Station 10: The Forgiven Thief
“Consider how Jesus so lovingly assured the repentant thief of Paradise.”
Church: St. Michael the Archangel Church
Municipality: Samboan
San Miguel Arcangel Church was built in 1784 out of coral stones under Fr. Romulado Avila. According to Fr. Felipe Redondo, church historian, the church was a building made of mamposteria with only one nave which makes it different among Spanish-built churches which are cruciform in design.
Station 11: Mary and The Beloved Disciple at the Foot of the Cross
“Consider how Jesus witnessed the excruciating pain that his mother Mary and the beloved disciple bore seeing him hanged on the cross. Moved with so much love, he entrusted Mary to John and John to Mary.”
Church: Our Lady of Consolation Parish
Municipality: Bato, Samboan
Station 12: The Death of Jesus
“Consider how Jesus, after three hours of agony on the cross, consumed at length with anguish, abandoned himself to the weight of his body, bowed his head, and died.”
Church: Saint Gabriel the Archangel Parish Church
Municipality: Santander
During the Spanish period, Santander was under the Immaculate Concepcion Parish in Oslob, Cebu. Local folks had to walk 18 kilometers to attend mass. Because of this distance, the people requested that another church be constructed. It was completed in 1898 and named it Saint Gabriel the Archangel Parish Church.
Trivia: In 1898, the Santander church originally faced the sea but this was changed in 1960 to face the road for the convenience of the churchgoers.
Station 13: Jesus is Laid in the Tomb
“Consider how the disciples carried Jesus to bury him, accompanied by His holy Mother, who arranged his body in the sepulcher with her own hands. They then closed the tomb and went home.”
Church: Immaculate Conception Church
Municipality: Oslob
The Immaculate Conception Church was established on May 4, 1830, under the supervision of Fr. Julian Bermejo. The church was completed in 1848. Its interior features a high ceiling and the structure was made of coral stones quarried from the seas and cemented using lime from seashell ashes. The church bell tower stands at 30 meters and had a neo-classical style dome.
Trivia: On November 7, 1955, the church was destroyed when a fire gutted it. Nearly everything was destroyed except the image of the Immaculate Conception which was spared.
Station 14: The Resurrection of Jesus
“Consider Jesus’ resurrection as an assurance of victory over suffering and death. The Lord has risen. He is alive and alleluia is our song.”
Church: Nuestra Señora de Patrocino Parish
Municipality: Boljoon
The Augustinian friars built the church of Patrocinio de Maria in the 18th century. The church and convent still use clay roof tiles for their roof. The complex was a fortress church. Within the complex are: a blockhouse at the front left side of the complex served as a watchtower, a school at the left rear side built in the 1940s, series of wall ruins, and an 18th-century cemetery.
The ceiling painting was done by local painters in the 1920’s. The church walls are made of coral stone. The façade is ornamented with ecclesiastic symbols. A pipe organ was installed in the 19th century at the choir loft.
14 old churches
13 municipalities
All in one day
Today was the best learning experience for me on spirituality and heritage. Thanks, CIC friends for organizing the Round South Visita Iglesia. I had so much fun and learned a lot today 🙂
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Source’s tip leads to scoop on LGBT immigrants’ safe haven
Philip Marcelo and Steven Senne
Orville Howden, 39, of Jamaica, is interviewed at a home in Worcester, Mass., recently renovated by the LGBT Asylum Task Force, Dec. 1. 2021. Howden, a gay man who moved into the house in November, said he fled Jamaica in October 2020 after his roommate in Montego Bay was killed for being gay. The Caribbean nation is among roughly 70 countries, mostly in Africa, where homosexuality is explicitly outlawed, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, a Swiss group that tracks such laws.
AP Photo / Steven Senne
Boston-based immigration reporter Philip Marcelo and photographer Steven Senne teamed up for an AP scoop on an American first: A Massachusetts church that supports immigrants has opened a new home for LGTB asylum seekers fleeing their countries because of their sexual orientation.
Marcelo has cultivated an impressive network of sources in the course of robust beat reporting in New England. Those contacts paid off when a lawyer who had previously connected Marcelo with a client for a national story reached out with a tip on the community of LGBT refugees who’d fled government-sanctioned brutality in their homelands because of their sexual orientation and identification. That set in motion considerable discussion about what these asylum seekers from Jamaica, Uganda and other LGBT-hostile nations would be willing to say — and whether they'd consent to be photographed.
Pastor Judith Hanlon of Hadwen Park Congregational Church, and co-founder of the LGBT Asylum Task Force, is interviewed in the kitchen of a recently renovated home for LGBT asylum seekers in Worcester, Mass., Dec. 1, 2021, accompanied by Al Green, director of the organization.Transforming the multifamily home for the project represents the biggest investment the ministry has undertaken in its long-running efforts to help LGBT immigrants.
Marcelo and Senne found subjects willing to open up. The result was an evocative, nuanced, unique and highly visual package that shed light on a little-reported aspect of immigration. Senne's dramatically lit portraits further elevated the work.
Marcelo’s story is the latest in a series demonstrating that compelling narratives around immigration can be found, and told, far from the southern border.
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Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, U.S. East
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Congresswoman Barbara Lee announces Oakland Airport will receive more than $15 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act
Oakland, CA – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13) today announced that the Oakland International Airport (OAK) will receive more than $15 million from the federal Department of Transportation as part of Bipartisan Infrastructure Act signed into law by President Biden on November 15.
The funds will be used for projects related to environmental sustainability, passenger amenities, and security upgrades at the Oakland Airport, which is owned and operated by the Port of Oakland.
“We are already seeing the impact of the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Act right here in our community,” Congresswoman Lee said. “This funding will create good-paying union jobs in the East Bay, and will help modernize airport facilities and make operations more sustainable. The Infrastructure Act also brings critical investment to our state to guarantee clean drinking water for all, improve highways and bridges, expand our EV charging network, increase safety on our roads and streets, and close the digital divide in neighborhoods like East Oakland. Thanks to the leadership of President Biden and Speaker Pelosi, this law will make a real difference for our state and the entire country.”
“This funding is critical for providing greater safety, security, and sustainability at Oakland International Airport,” Oakland International Airport Aviation Director Bryant Francis said. “It will also provide new job opportunities for the local community.”
OAK is working with Federal Aviation Administration partners to clarify criteria and timelines for Infrastructure Act funding. Projects that may benefit from the funding include:
Airfield safety projects
Security systems upgrades
Passenger amenities including companion care and gender-inclusive facilities
Expanded on-site energy generation
Adding electrical charging stations
Building system improvements for energy-efficiency and passenger comfort
The Infrastructure Act included $15 billion nationwide in funding for airport development grants. These projects include improvements to runways and taxiways, terminal development and noise prevention. Oakland’s $15.49 million allocation is determined by a formula based on cargo and passenger volumes, among other factors.
Congresswoman Lee also announced a separate $5.2 million grant from the Department of Transportation to fund clean energy projects at the Oakland Seaport, also owned by the Port of Oakland. The grant will support the Port’s vision of achieving zero emissions in maritime operations.
Together, the Infrastructure Act funding and the clean energy grant represent more than $20 million in federal investments to improve operations and increase sustainability at the East Bay’s transportation and shipping hub.
“Thank you to Secretary Buttigieg and the Department of Transportation for supporting the Port of Oakland’s truly visionary work to end reliance on fossil fuels in maritime operations,” Congresswoman Lee said.
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Your question: Who wrote 1st Peter in the Bible?
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Authorship. The authorship of 1 Peter has traditionally been attributed to the Apostle Peter because it bears his name and identifies him as its author (1:1).
Composition. According to the Epistle itself, it was composed by the Apostle Peter, an eyewitness to Jesus’ ministry. If 2 Peter 3:1 alludes to 1 Peter, the audience of the epistle is the various Churches in Asia Minor in general (cf.
1 Peter. The First Letter of Peter, addressed to persecuted Christians living in five regions of Asia Minor, exhorts the readers to emulate the suffering Christ in their distress, remembering that after his Passion and death Jesus rose from the dead and is now in glory.
In John, the readers are told that it was two disciples of John the Baptist (Andrew and an unnamed disciple) who heard John the Baptist announce Jesus as the “Lamb of God” and then followed Jesus. Andrew then went to his brother Simon, saying, “We have found the Messiah”, and then brought Simon to Jesus.
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Edmund Clowney believes that no true Christian can escape at least a measure of suffering for Christ’s sake. Out of his firsthand knowledge as an apostle of Christ, Peter shows us what the story of Jesus’ life means for us as we take up our cross and follow him.
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Audience. 1 Peter is addressed to the “elect resident aliens” scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
Saint Peter, or Simon Peter, is traditionally credited with writing two books of the New Testament. They are I Peter and II Peter. These books are epistles, or letters, written as instructional texts for the laity of the early Christian church.
Gospel of Peter, pseudepigraphal (noncanonical and unauthentic) Christian writing of the mid-2nd century ad, the extant portion of which covers the condemnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus.
[Peter] was a missionary who traveled with his wife (1 Cor 9:5), …he was highly respected as a leader in the church (Gal 1:18, 29), …and many people traced their identity in Christ to his ministry or influence (1 Cor 1:13; cf. Acts 2:41-44; 4:4; 8:25).
Rome. Sent by him in v 14. Who is the possible amanuensis of 1 Peter? Silvanus serving as amanuensis (though 5:12 almost certainly refers to the carrier rather than the bearer of the letter).
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When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a …
Ex 33:11 informs a reader that God would speak to Moses face to face as a man speaks with his friend. A few verses later, in 33:14-15, God promises Moses that His face will go with him.
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Director Biography – Ariel Orama López (AG Orloz) (2HOOM)
Ariel Orama López (AG ORLOZ) is a Puerto Rican professional actor, executive producer, independent filmmaker, and media psychologist that was eligible for the Oscars 2020. He is a collegiate actor of the Colegio de Actores de Puerto Rico, a certified Executive Coach (specialized in Crëative Life Coaching) from TISOC, Barcelona, Spain, and a licensed clinical (media) psychologist. He was selected as a finalist of Taller TELEMUNDO: actores, in Miami, directed by the well-known actress nominated for an Oscar in the movie Babel (2006), the distinguished Mexican actress and Professor Adriana Barraza.
Ariel (AG) has worked in commercials, theatre, short films, indie films, documentary, series, television, media writing, and voice-overs, summing more than 200 projects in arts (2001-2020). He is also a composer and singer: one of his songs (Seré/I’ll be) was selected for the Puerto Rican dramatic documentary The Eyes of the People and his song (Alto Vuelas/ Flying Higher) was selected as the official Puerto Rican song for the World March from the Peace, celebrated in Argentina and New Zealand.
Orama performed in fourteen Short-Films in California during his NYFA training in Acting for the Film (Los Angeles). After this experience, he was selected as the Creative Coach and Consultant for the television program Idol Kids Puerto Rico (from the recognized English franchise Idol ©), and have offered courses about Psychology of Character at the Colegio de Actores de Puerto Rico and in other relevant forums.
He has received more than 70 laurels and 29 international prizes in filming, including Los Angeles, New York, Puerto Rico, India, Spain, Africa, the Philippines, Nazareth, among other international contexts. Ariel directed and starred on the Puerto Rican Short-Film ESTEB∆N -Opera Prima- which received national and international laurels and/or nominations (Director’s Choice: Best Film, Top Ten Film, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Music) in following contexts: Spain, California, Orlando, and Puerto Rico. He received laurels and prizes from Italy, Martinique, and Spain for his Short Film Cielos Negros (main character and producer) and presented his Short Films ESTEBAN and A Mis Queridos Reyes at NYU and in The Motherland Resists NY Collective Project. He also received a scholarship from New York University (NYU) for an intensive Film and Gender Seminar and had the opportunity to present some of his multi-laureated films among academics and specialists in the seventh art.
The Puerto Rican actor has received different awards in performing arts, including Best Direction Selection, Best Concept, Best Actor, and Best Script. Ariel was one of the five recipients of the Sor Isolina Ferré Medal in Education of the Government of Puerto Rico, a unique National distinction in service and education. In 2018 received the Top Ten Young Persons Award (TOYP) in the Cultural and Art category.
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FILM COMMITMENT IN THE MIDST OF CONFINEMENT:
ITALY, PERU, USA AND PUERTO RICO JOIN IN FRONT OF THE PANDEMIC
“When the pandemic arrived, my intuitive mind thought of two things: first, that the vaccine or the ‘antidote’ against COVID-19 could be related to the structure that gives the dreaded virus the shape of a “crown.” I shared with my loved ones, with evidence, right at the beginning of this global situation. Second, that HIV/AIDS could be understood, in another way, after studies and future findings on the relatively new condition, and vice versa. I remembered my experience with HIV/AIDS patients. Considering my formal education in Science and Arts, I decided to create a short film that linked such elements with the unimaginable power of water and the mysteries of quantum physics: a story that alluded to the “shield” or “armour” of the coronavirus (even on an emotional level, as a metaphor) as well as the stigma of HIV. Today we are one voice, without races: a new universe of masked beings. And that is how my short film 2ḦOOM [zoom] was born.” -AG ORLOZ
Welcome to 2ḦOOM [zu:m], a Puerto Rican Life Action Short Film that incorporates international creative talent, conceived in full confinement and in the presence of COVID-19 in the World. The multi-laureate director of independent cinema and university professor of psychology and acting, Dr. Ariel Orama López (AG Orloz in the arts) summoned a Peruvian animator and cartoonist (Jorge Cáceres) and an Italian composer (Daniele Carretta) to create a project that represented the related topics that emerged after the pandemic and which, in turn, served as a single voice for the human race in the midst of global metamorphosis. Filmed indoors and outdoors, under strict protection measures and with the integration of creative elements, the project managed to come to life with an air of universality, thus leaving for festivals around the world. Topics related to the blood ties that transcend, the vulnerability of human beings, patients at risk and immortality are present in the short film, whose visual richness through animation joins the sublimity of its music and the plausibility of the performances. Ariel is a distinguished former LA NYFA Acting for the Film Student who was eligible for the Oscars 2020 with its project ONE.
The Life Action Short Film that integrates animation with acted scenes is about “two brothers who discover the quintessence that unifies them”, in the midst of the pandemic, through a conversation by “Zoom” in which “anything can happen”: this occurs from the virtual platform that boomed under current circumstances and in full confinement. The project incorporates actor Jonathan Cardenales along with also actor AG Orloz, who stared on this short and have formed a perfect cufflink in other of his award-winning projects. One of the emotional touches of the project is the integration of voices from Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina for a crucial moment in the emotional film. Likewise, talents from the United States and Mexico were integrated to conceptualize the art, logo, and essence of the project, from the comprehensive perspective of Orama. The edition was carried out between Puerto Rico and Peru, virtually supervised by its director from the thrill of creating, for the first time, a project that integrates animation. It should be noted that the project has also awarded actors and editors. The sum of talents that make up this project was characterized by its dedication, creativity, level of detail and quality of its art: neither distance nor new limitations were an obstacle to creating a project with substance and worthy of international festivals.
“Uniting as that new, emerging DNA, which already has an indelible mark on our collective memory, in times of change, has been key to survival in the face of what we all already know and are experiencing. This is precisely what our film commitment has been: we have started from a unifying, human, social, and hopeful perspective. We did it with the short film ONE, after the ravages of Hurricane Maria, and we even hoped that our message would reach the Academy and the Oscars: thank God, we did it with the eligibility of the project. Now, we want our sublime message in essence and forceful in matters of great relevance and universality to reach every corner of the planet as a reaffirmation that we are no longer neither races nor other social differences, there are no distinctions: we are one voice”, concluded the multi-awarded director of this seventh art project, who recently won his 40th laurel and 4 new nominations in Chile (director, script, sound design and cinematography) for his Oscar eligible Short Film ONE, is completing his next book on Film and Media and is in post-production of his feature film “YSLA”, from a renewed perspective and with other enriched experiences. 2ḦOOM [zu:m]© was filmed in the midst of the pandemic and under the confinement rules.
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DIVISION 14. CALIFORNIA WATER STORAGE DISTRICT LAW [39000 - 48401]
( Division 14 added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391. )
PART 3. INTERNAL ORGANIZATION [40300 - 40800]
( Part 3 added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391. )
CHAPTER 3. Board Meetings and Duties [40650 - 40659]
( Chapter 3 added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391. )
The directors elected at the formation election shall on the first Tuesday after their election and qualification meet and organize as a board and designate an office of the board, which shall also be the office of the district, at which the board shall thereafter hold its meetings.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 391.)
The board shall hold a regular meeting each month at the place selected as the district office.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 830.)
The board may by resolution duly entered upon its minutes fix any other time or place for the regular monthly meeting, but no such change shall become effective until after the resolution making it has been published once a week for two successive weeks in the office county.
Special meetings of the board may be held as required for the proper transaction of the business of the district, but shall be ordered by a majority of the board.
The order calling a special meeting shall be entered of record and specify the business to be transacted. Five days’ notice of the order must be given to each director not joining in the order.
No other business than that specified in the order may be transacted at a special meeting unless all the members are present and consent to the consideration of any business not specified in the order.
All meetings of the board shall be public and a majority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. A smaller number of directors than a quorum may adjourn from day to day.
All records of the board shall be open to public inspection during business hours.
A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.
(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 158, Sec. 40. Effective January 1, 2006.)
The board shall manage and conduct the business of the district.
The board of a district in existence on the effective date of this section shall file a certificate with the Secretary of State on or before January 1, 1964, listing:
(a) The name of the district.
(b) The date of formation.
(c) The county or counties in which the district is located, and a description of the boundaries of the district, or reference to a map showing such boundaries, which map shall be attached to the certificate, or reference to the county recorder’s office where a description of such boundaries has been recorded.
If the order declaring the district formed contains all of the information required to be in the certificate, the board may file a copy of the order in lieu of the certificate.
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LIBERALIZATION DATA SET
Armingeon, Klaus, Lucio Baccaro, Anna Fill, Jorge Galindo, Stefan Heeb, and Rafael Labanino. 2019. Liberalization Database 1973-2013, Zurich, Trento, Geneva and Cologne.
Data & documentation
Team & feedback
The "Liberalization Database - 37 countries, 1973-2013" is a systematic compilation of liberalizing and de-liberalizing reforms in the context of the Liberalization project directed by Klaus Armingeon (University of Zurich and Trento) and Lucio Baccaro (University of Geneva and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne), and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The database covers 37 advanced capitalist democracies between 1973 and 2013 and identifies a total of 12,426 reform policy changes (i.e., policy discontinuities) in the following 13 policy fields: active labor market policies (almp), competitive and product market regulation (comp), corporate governance (gov), education (edu), employment protection legislation (epl), financial reform (fin), health care (hc), industrial relations (ir), non-employment benefits (neb), pension systems (pen), privatization (pri), tax policies (tax), and vocational education training (voctr). The unit of analysis are policy reforms which we retrieved from various sources such as OECD publications. For some countries external country experts checked our data base.
The large reach of the dataset makes it difficult to maintain a uniform degree of data quality across countries. This is mainly the result of a lack of homogeneity across sources, which vary considerably in terms of breadth and reliability across both countries and policy fields. Moreover, it was not always possible to find suitable external experts who could help rectify issues related to data quality. Therefore, we also provide an assessment of data quality and completeness for each country in the codebook.
Citation (please refer to the respective data set as follows)
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom & USA: 1973-2013
Bulgaria: 1991-2013
Croatia: 1992-2013
Cyprus: 1980-2013
Czech Republik, Hungary, Slovak Republic: 1988-2013
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia: 1989-2013
Iceland, Portugal: 1974-2013
Israel: 1999-2013
Romania: 1990-2013
Spain: 1976-2013
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Rehab Doll
Label: Sub Pop
Genre: 80s Wave / Rock / Pop / Punk
LP x2 +MP3 COUPON €22.99
The story of Seattle's rise to global rock supremacy in the late '80s and early '90s begins with Green River. Made up of Jeff Ament (bass), Mark Arm (guitar/vocals), Bruce Fairweather (guitar), Stone Gossard (guitar), and Alex Shumway (drums), the quintet put out three 12”s and a 7” single during its brief existence. Green River's influence on Seattle's music scene spread far and wide thanks to the members' dispersion into bands including Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Love Battery, as well as the punk-glam-sludge-rock songs they left behind.
"By '83, '84, there was definitely a movement that was happening within hardcore, like Black Flag slowing down for My War," says Arm. "The Replacements and Butthole Surfers were rearing their heads, and they're very different bands, but they're not hardcore—the Replacements are pretty much straight-up rock, and Butthole Surfers were God knows what. Sonic Youth's Bad Moon Rising was around, and a lot of really interesting post-hardcore things were happening." Green River, which formed in 1984, was part of that evolution, with a sound that straddled a lot of different genres—blues, punk, bloozy straight-ahead rock.
The mini-LP Dry As A Bone, which came out in 1987, and the band's lone full-length Rehab Doll, which came out in 1988, were released as a single CD with a few bonus cuts, including their sneering cover of David Bowie's "Queen Bitch" and their marauding version of Dead Boys' "Ain't Nothin' to Do," in 1990—but they've been unavailable on vinyl for years. Now, these slices of Seattle music history are not only back in print, they're accompanied by items from the vaults that had been forgotten about for decades. Dry As A Bone was recorded at Jack Endino's Reciprocal Recording in 1986, and it shows the band in furious form, with Arm's yowl battling Fairweather and Gossard's ferocious guitar playing on "This Town" and "Unwind" opening as a slow bluesy grind then jump-starting itself into a hyperactive chase. The deluxe edition includes Green River's cuts from the crucial Seattle-scene compilation Deep Six, as well as long-lost songs that were recorded to the now-archaic format Betamax.
Rehab Doll, recorded largely at Seattle's Steve Lawson Studios., bridges the gap between the taut, punky energy of Dry As a Bone and the bigger drums and thicker riffs that were coming to dominate rock in the late '80s. This new edition of Rehab Doll includes a version of “Swallow My Pride” recorded to 8-track at Endino's Reciprocal Recording, which features a more accurate depiction of how the band sounded when they played live. "When I listen to these mixes, I think, 'This is how we actually sounded—this is the kind of energy we had,'" says Shumway.
Green River's place in American music history is without question, but these recordings paint a more complete picture of the band—and of rock in the mid- to late-'80s, when punk's faster-and-louder ideals had begun shape-shifting into other ideas.
Loser edition, coloured vinyl.
More from Green River
Green River: Dry As A Bone
(LP x2 +MP3 COUPON)
Moaning: Uneasy Laughter
Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Rose Windows: Rose Windows
Metz: Ii
Obits: I Blame You
Emerald Web: Whispered Visions
Weeping Messerschmitts: Nothing Yet
(7")
Microdisney: The Clock Comes Down The Stairs
James: Village Fire - Five Offerings From James
Pooh Sticks: Tonight
(7" PICTURE)
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by Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good--her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits--all the family has to live on--on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her--even her beloved Shuggie.
A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of Edouard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell.
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The Port of Bar is situated on the entrance to the Adriatic sea, precisely on 42˚05' of the North latitude and 19˚05' of the East longitude, on distance of 976 nautical miles (nm) to Suez canal and 1190 nm to Gilbraltar. The Port of Bar owns significant competitive advantages in relation to the Northern Adriatic ports, shortening the transit-time and creating savings in the cost of maritime transport.
1. High-quality connections with the hinterland
Integrated with the Belgrade-Bar railway and road traffic network, the Port represents very important link in the chain of intermodal transport.
2. Access to markets of Balkans and Central Europe
3. Flexible legislation and simplicity of business procedures
The legal framework and business procedures in the Port are set in order to eliminate business barriers and create prerequisites for successful business.
4. Long experience in business and constant presence in the market of hinterland
Founded in 1906, the Port possesses more than one century of business experience necessary to acquire and build partnerships with its customers by providing a constant presence in the market.
5. System of Free zone regime
Pursuant to the decision of the Government of Montenegro from March 2000, the Free Zone of the Port of Bar includes the entire port area, and the "Port of Bar" JSC has the authority of free zone operator as well as of the joint stock company the "Container terminal and general cargo". The total area of the territory on which both companies may do business in the regime of free zone, covers over 130 ha.
6. Competitive pricing policy
Applying the principles of cost efficiency and modern management concept, it is created well-balanced and competitive pricing policy that achieves the set goal-satisfaction of our clients.
7. Application of quality and international maritime security standards
Obtaining ISPS certificate by the relevant Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs, and as recommended by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), that deals with the safety of ships in ports and the port facilities themselves, the "Port of Bar" JSC confirmed its ability of secured goods handling and acceptance of ships. The "Port of Bar" JSC implements, develops and improves Quality Management System, which has as the result the professionalism and trustworthiness of employees. For its business, in compliance with the international standard ISO 9001, the renowned Swiss certification organization SGS awarded the "Port of Bar" Certificate ISO 9001:2008 forDevelopment and providing port services and space management..
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1933 Time Capsule Message in a Bottle Unearthed at Oklahoma State Capitol
30 Thursday Nov 2017
Posted by Message in a Bottle Hunter in message in a bottle, News
1933, message in a bottle, News, Oklahoma, Time Capsule
A Stately Time Capsule
Sometimes, a message in a bottle story appears, and no one seems to notice it, and it fades into history. It boggles my mind, but this 84 year old message in a bottle has attracted practically no attention. And it’s not just a message in a bottle–it’s a time capsule!
Personally, I find land-based messages in bottles super interesting! Like–why not just use a box or something, since the time capsule doesn’t have to float? Maybe they were preparing for mega floods? What inspired these people to seal messages in bottles and hide them decades ago?
Oklahoma State Capitol. Photo: Caleb Long (via Wikipedia).
No one knows really why it was placed, or by whom. But here it is. It reminds me of another message in a bottle time capsule I reported on that was found in Scotland. This one “reunited” a pair of sisters with their deceased father.
A Snapshot of 1933
At the least, I can give you some context for the known world of 1933. Here’s what was going on: US Prohibition was repealed; Albert Einstein moved to America (actually, he was visiting America and decided to stay once he heard Hitler had assumed leadership of Germany); Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and opened the Dachau concentration camp in addition to announcing plans for the Volkswagen (or “people’s car”); the dust bowl ravaged America; unemployment reached its highest level of the Great Depression; the film King Kong premiered; and the US got its first drive-in movie theater.
Also a crazy number of famous people were born in 1933. Gene Wilder, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lou Rawls, Caroll Spinney (aka Big Bird of Sesame Street), Jayne Mansfield, Nina Simone, Quincy Jones, Carol Burnett, Yoko Ono, Michael Caine, James Brown, Willie Nelson, and a lot more. Of course, they were all just little babies in 1933. I’m just saying–it was an auspicious year to be born, though a rough one for adults the world over.
Anyway, I’m just going to include this bottle’s story as I stumbled onto it, written by Adam Maxey for The Oklahoma 100.
If anyone out there knows anything further about this note or the people listed in it, please comment!
Without further ado, here is Adam Maxey’s story, as it appeared recently in The Oklahoma 100:
A note dated 9/21/1933 was recently found underneath the south granite stairs during the Oklahoma State Capitol building renovations. Photo: Adam Maxey / Jones PR / The Oklahoma 100
Last month, a note dated September 21, 1933, was found during ongoing renovations at the Oklahoma State Capitol. The note, scribbled on an envelope from the Game and Fish Department, listed names of individuals and stated, “The above worked in this place on above date.”
Governor William H. Murray’s name adorned the letter, although not written by his own hand (noted below his name), followed by others who joined him that day.
There was work being done to the capitol at the time, but no one is certain of what brought these men to that particular part of the building.
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UK consumer opinions are becoming increasingly polarised
69% of the UK think the economy is in a poor state at the moment, while 58% believe their family’s financial situation will worse in 2018.
Posted on September 25, 2018 by Duncan MacRae in Customer Insight, Customers, News // 0 Comments
The majority (58%) of UK consumers believe their family’s financial situation will worsen in 2018.
This is according to TI Media’s annual The Briefing, Summer 2018 study, which reveals that Britain has become a nation divided by money.
‘Divided Britain’ explores how consumer attitudes are increasingly polarised by focusing on five key areas: Brexit, The Standard of Living, Plastics, the High Street and Christmas. The survey was based on research with 1,200 UK consumers.
Sean Pritchard, customer strategy manager at TI Media, said: “The UK is split on a number of issues, but the underlying theme is the economy. Family finances are increasingly under pressure, which is worrying a lot of people as they start planning for Christmas. Brands and retailers need to find ways to engage consumers and explain how they can get extra value out of their daily lives.”
With Brexit dividing the breakfast table up and down the country, TI Media found that 53% of the UK are in favour of a second public vote on the Brexit deal — and slightly more (56%) are sick of hearing about Brexit in the news! One in five of those polled (20%) still don’t think the UK will actually leave the European Union in the end.
More than half of Leave voters (57%) admitted they probably didn’t realise how difficult the Brexit process would be before they voted (compared to 40% of Remainers), and only 27% of the UK are confident that Theresa May will deliver a good deal. Leave voters are overwhelmingly optimistic about Britain’s future outside the EU, while Remain voters are overwhelmingly pessimistic.
More than two-thirds of consumers (69%) think the UK economy is in a poor state at the moment and 58% expect their family’s financial situation to get worse as 2018 progresses. But there are major differences over just who is feeling the pressure the most. An overwhelming majority (86%) of over 65s believe they are facing years of financial hardship, compared with just 50% of 18-24 year olds.
This is reflected in what different age groups cite as the biggest threat to the UK at the moment. For younger people, it’s Brexit; for middle aged consumers, it’s terrorism; and for older people, it’s the performance of the NHS. As the UK’s population ages, concerns over public funding of the NHS, social services, policing and the national infrastructure are only likely to intensify.
While the UK population supports efforts to cut plastic use and increase recycling, the less well off say they haven’t got the luxury of time, money or head space to worry about plastic in the way that more affluent consumers do. Just under half (48%) said that buying eco-friendly products is a luxury they can’t afford at the moment. But nearly two-thirds of consumers (63%) said they would care more about eco-friendly products if they had more time and more money.
Helping the environment undeniably gives people a sense of purpose and value – but the real issue becomes how to enable less well off consumers to act on their desire to contribute. Punitive measures like the plastic bag levy have a greater impact on the poorest in society than on the more affluent.
The High Street
UK consumers are conflicted: they love their High Streets – but they also love saving money by shopping online or by going to discounters and out of town retail parks. So while 84% of the UK says they are concerned about the High Street at the moment, 77% agree that while it’s sad, it’s just too convenient to shop online and 59% believe you get much better deals on products online.
Almost two-thirds (65%) say traditional retailers have been too slow to adapt to modern technology, while the same number (66%) think the decline of the High Street is inevitable.
Christmas is coming — and for half of those surveyed, that means one thing: money. Only a third find Christmas relaxing. Looking at income as a factor, 57% of ABC1 consumers said their top Christmas concern was that it was ‘too expensive’, compared with 76% of C2DE consumers. But there was agreement on one thing: 35% of both ABC1 and C2DE consumers said they wanted Christmas to be ‘magical’.
The Divided Britain report is based on three sets of research, covering a total of 1,200 consumers:
● TI Media’s State of the Nation study, 2018 – 500 UK Nat Rep consumers (July 2018)
● TI Media’s Christmas 2018 study, 2018 – 500 UK Nat Rep consumers (August 2018)
● TI Media’s UK Study, 2018 – 200 UK Nat Rep consumers (August 2018).
Until June 2018, TI Media was known as Time Inc. UK. Its 40-plus brands are said to reach 16.4 million UK adults monthly across print and digital.
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Revealing commonalities between central and peripheral nervous system progenitors
by King's College London
The nervous system is arguably the most complex organ of the vertebrate body. The eye, ear and olfactory epithelium are part of the peripheral nervous system and provide visual, sound and smell information to the brain. As part of the central nervous system the brain integrates this information to build up a picture of our environment and to guide appropriate behaviour and body function. During development, the brain and the sense organs arise from different parts of the embryo, the neural tube and the non-neural, placodal ectoderm, respectively. Subsequently, they differentiate along different pathways to give rise to complex structures that contain many different cell types with specialised functions.
In their paper published in PNAS, Andrea Streit and her team in the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology at King's College London, together with their collaborators at UCL, Prof. Claudio Stern's group, discovered a surprising similarity between progenitors for the central and peripheral nervous system. During development, many cell fate decisions are controlled by inductive interactions: instructive signals from one tissue cause a change of cell identity in responding cells.
The neural plate, which later forms the central nervous system, and the placodes, which contribute to the sense organs, are induced by signals from two quite different tissues. Comparing the response to these tissues, the team showed that both inducers initially elicit a very similar response and only later diverge. Using a variety of approaches they characterised an initial, "common state", with a characteristic transcriptional signature.
This signature shows similarity to embryonic stem cells, suggesting that the induction of the central and peripheral nervous system may begin with a 'reprogramming' step. Interestingly, when the central and peripheral nervous system have already begun to diverge, cells that reside at the border between them share many features of the initial common state. This finding suggests that even at later stages in development the 'border cells' retain properties of a ground state including the ability to differentiate into different lineages.
A new program for neural stem cells
More information: Katherine E. Trevers et al. Neural induction by the node and placode induction by head mesoderm share an initial state resembling neural plate border and ES cells, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1719674115
Journal information: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Provided by King's College London
Citation: Revealing commonalities between central and peripheral nervous system progenitors (2017, December 20) retrieved 16 January 2022 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-12-revealing-commonalities-central-peripheral-nervous.html
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Marikana: Loan undermines Lonmin’s arguments, says academic
Mg Correspondent
During hearings of the Marikana Commission, Lonmin executives said the company had not been able to afford to keep its 2006 promise to build 5 500 new houses for workers.
Yet a year later, in 2007, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation made finance of $150-million available to Lonmin – part of it for a “large-scale community development programme”.
In terms of commitments made under the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act , Lonmin undertook to convert all its single sex hostel accommodation and to build an additional 5 500 houses for migrant workers by September 2011.
In the first three years, 3 200 houses were to be built and 70 hostels converted. But by the end of the 2009 financial year, only three of the 3 200 houses had been built and only 29 hostels converted.
Lonmin executives told the Marikana Commission that the company had not been able to afford to keep its promise because of the 2008 financial crisis.
Yet in 2007, finance of $150-million had been made available to Lonmin by the International Finance Corporation and the company had apparently promised to use some of it to build houses.
The IFC, which is an arm of the World Bank, announced in March 2007 that it would spend up to $50-million (roughly R550-million at today’s exchange rates) to buy shares in Lonmin, and would also give the company a $100-million loan repayable over 10 years.
The three year IFC-Lonmin project was to consist of the development, expansion and mechanisation of Lonmin’s South African mines, as well as the development of a “comprehensive, large-scale community and local economic development” programme.
Undermining Lonmin’s argument
In a press release at the time, Lonmin’s chief executive Brad Mills said: “Our partnership with IFC will help to enhance Lonmin’s continued commitment to the long-term sustainability of our local communities and to allow us to build on our ongoing work to create mutually beneficial relationships with these communities“.
“We look forward to working with Lonmin and its stakeholders toward encouraging community development,” said Rashad Kaldany, IFC Director of Oil, Gas, Mining, and Chemicals, in the same press release. “IFC and Lonmin share the objective of maximizing the benefits from mining operations to help improve people’s lives in Africa.”
Mills told Business Day that Lonmin would use part of the cash to build 5 000 houses in the next five years for community members, with 600 scheduled to be built the same year.
“The availability of World Bank money, which a Lonmin exec said would be used for building 5 000 houses between 2007 and 2011, undermines the case that Lonmin ‘couldn’t afford’ to build more than three such houses,” says Patrick Bond, director of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society.
The IFC seems to have been satisfied with Lonmin’s track record, noting at the end of the project: “IFC and South Africa’s Lonmin recently completed a three-year partnership that helped transform the way the world’s third-biggest platinum miner operates.”
In their report to retired judge Ian Farlam this week, the Commission’s evidence leaders dismissed Lonmin’s affordability argument as “ultimately irrelevant”. The obligation to build houses was legally binding under the Act, they said, and Lonmin had made no application to the government to vary these obligations.
They also noted that the housing would have cost R665-million and that over the same period Lonmin had paid more than R1.3-billion in “marketing commissions” to Lonmin Management Services and/or a Bermudan subsidiary, Western Metal Sales.
At the time of publication the IFC’s Johannesburg office had not yet responded to a request for comment. Comment will be added when it is received.
This article was originally published on GroundUp.
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Dr Carl Brincat has become the CEO of MGA!
Posted on January 19, 2021 February 1, 2021 by Vincenzo Davari
The regulator’s Board of Governors has confirmed that Dr Carl Brincat has been appointed as the CEO of the Malta Gaming Authority. And this action has been announced to be in effect immediately.
After a lengthy and competitive selection process, the Board of Governors had selected Brincat for this post. Previously the board of directors called for applications from willing candidates. The application process started on 17th December 2020.
Dr Brincat is a lawyer by profession. Before selected as the MGA CEO, he has served as the chief legal and enforcement officer here. After three years of criminal law training, he joined the MGA’s legal team, which he has participated in for more than six years. He has been a part of the authority’s strategic direction team and has formed four governing committees in the past four years.
While his signing speech, Brincat said that it is an honour for him to be elected to lead the organization like MGA, particularly in its current critical juncture. He also said that “I am proud of the work that has been done so far by the authorities to raise regulatory standards and we are committed to continuing this path.”
He also added that “We need to build stronger partnerships with other regulators and partners and the industry itself to achieve a regulatory environment. Which meets MGA’s goals in the most effective, transparent and proportionate manner possible in a highly regulated environment and all these will be done abiding by the law.” His speech has inspired many online websites to get their license from MGA and legalize their I gaming business.
Dr Brincat is a regular speaker at local and international conferences on gaming and global regulatory control issues. He is a member of the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit board. He sits as the Chamber of Advocates in the International Masters of Gaming Law, and the International Agency for Gambling controllers.
MGA has always been a trustworthy and pioneer license authority for online gambles. And now it has a worthy CEO like Dr Brincat. The online gambling industry will hopefully bloom by his presence.
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Vincenzo Davari, a writer on Sweden's best online casino, is a reporter by profession, but a learner by nature who provides informative news regarding casinos and gambling. When he gets free time, he loves to travel and explore the unknown. His diligent work helped him to get the Journalist’s Award twice.
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He Long
贺龙
(1896-03-22)March 22, 1896
June 9, 1969(1969-06-09) (aged 73)
Sangzhi, Hunan
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This is a Chinese name; the family name is He.
He Long (simplified Chinese: 贺龙; traditional Chinese: 賀龍; pinyin: Hè Lóng; Wade–Giles: Ho Lung; March 22, 1896 – June 8, 1969) was a Chinese military leader. He was from a poor rural family of a minority ethnic group in Hunan, and his family could were not able to provide him with any formal education. He began his revolutionary career after avenging the death of his uncle, when he fled to become an outlaw and attracted a small personal army around him. Later He's forces joined the Kuomintang, and he participated in the Northern Expedition.
He rebelled against the Kuomintang after Chiang Kai-shek began violently suppressing Communists, when he planned and led the unsuccessful Nanchang Uprising. After escaping, he organized a soviet in rural Hunan (and later Guizhou), but was forced to abandon his bases when pressured by Chiang's Encirclement Campaigns. He joined the Long March in 1935, over a year after forces associated with Mao Zedong and Zhu De were forced to do so. He met with forces led by Zhang Guotao, but he disagreed with Zhang about the strategy of the Red Army and led his forces to join and support Mao.
After settling and establishing a headquarters in Shaanxi, He led guerrilla forces in Northwest China in both the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War, and was generally successful in expanding areas of Communist control. He commanded a force of 170,000 troops forces by the end of 1945, when his force was placed under the command of Peng Dehuai and He became Peng's second-in-command. He was placed in control of Southwest China in the late 1940s, and spent most of the 1950s in the Southwest administering the region in both civilian and military roles.
He held a number of civilian and military positions after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. In 1955 He's contributions to the victory of the Communist Party in China were recognized when he was named one of the Ten Marshals, and he served as China's vice premier. He did not support Mao Zedong's attempts to purge Peng Dehuai in 1959 and attempted to rehabilitate Peng. After the Cultural Revolution was declared in 1966, He was one of the first leaders of the PLA to be purged. He died in 1969 when a glucose injection provided by his jailers complicated his untreated diabetes.
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Biography[]
In 1925 He met his first Communists while running a Kuomintang military training school.
He Long was a member of the Tujia ethnic group.[1] Born in Sangzhi, Hunan province, he was the son of a minor military officer who was a member of the Gelaohui (Elder Brother Society), a secret society dating back to the early Qing dynasty. A cowherd during his youth, he received no formal education.[2] When He was 20 he killed a local government tax assessor who had killed his uncle for defaulting on his taxes.[3] He then fled and became an outlaw, giving rise to the legend that he began his revolutionary career with just two kitchen knives.[2]
Around 1918 He raised a volunteer revolutionary army that was aligned with a local Hunan warlord,[3] and in 1920 He's personal army joined the National Revolutionary Army.[4] In 1923 He was promoted to command the Nationalist Twentieth Army. In 1925 He ran a school for training Kuomintang soldiers. While running this school, He became close with some of his students who were also Communist Party members.[3] During the 1926 Northern Expedition, He commanded the 1st Division, 9th Corps of the National Revolutionary Army.[5] He served under Zhang Fakui during the Northern Expedition.[3]
In late 1926 He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).[4] In 1927, after the collapse of Wang Jingwei's leftist Kuomintang government in Wuhan and Chiang Kai-shek's suppression of communists, He left the Kuomintang and joined the Communists, commanding the 20th Corps, 1st Column of the Red Army.[3] He and Zhu De planned and led the main force of the Nanchang Uprising in 1927. In the Nanchang Uprising He and Zhu led a combined force 24,000 men and attempted to seize the city of Nanchang, but they were not able to secure it against the inevitable Kuomintang attempt to retake the city. The campaign suffered from logistical difficulties, and the communists suffered 50% casualties in two months of fighting. Most of He's soldiers who survived surrendered, deserted, and/or rejoined the KMT. Only 2,000 survivors eventually returned to fight for the Communists in 1928, when Zhu reformed his forces in Hunan.[6]
After his forces were defeated, He fled to Lufeng, Guangdong. He spent some time in Hong Kong, but was later sent by the Party to Shanghai, then to Wuhan.[3] Chiang Kai-Shek continuously tried to persuade him rejoin the Kuomintang, but failed.
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After the failure of the Nanchang Uprising, He turned down an offer by the CCP Central Committee to study in Russia and returned to Hunan, where he raised a new force in 1930.[5] He's force controlled a broad area of the countryside in the Hunan-Hubei border region, around the area of Lake Hong, and organized this area into a rural soviet. In mid-1932 Kuomintang forces targeted He's soviet as part of the Fourth Encirclement Campaign. He's forces abandoned their bases, moved southwest, and established a new base in northeast Guizhou in mid-1933.[7]
In 1934 Ren Bishi joined He in Guizhou with his own surviving forces after also being forced to abandon his soviet in another Encirclement Campaign. Ren and He merged forces, with He becoming the military commander and Ren becoming the commissar.[8] He joined the Long March in November 1935, over a year after forces led by Zhu De and Mao Zedong were forced to evacuate their own soviet in Jiangxi.[4] While on the Long March He's forces met Communist forces led by Zhang Guotao in June 1936, but both He and Ren disagreed with Zhang about the direction of the Long March, and He eventually led his forces into Shaanxi to join Mao Zedong by the end of 1936. In 1937 He settled his troops in northwestern Shaanxi and established a new headquarters there.[8] The Second Army of the Chinese Red Army under He Long's command was the only communist force whose numbers increased during the Long March.
When the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army in 1937, He was placed in command of the 120th Division.[4] From late 1938 to 1940 He fought both the Japanese army and Kuomintang-affiliated guerrillas in Hubei.[8] He's responsibilities increased during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in 1943 he was promoted to be the overall commander of Communist forces in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia.[4] By the end of World War II He commanded a force of approximately 175,000 troops across northwestern China. He's most notable subordinates included Zhang Zongxun, Xu Guangda, and Peng Shaohui.[9]
He was successful in expanding Communist base areas throughout the period of World War II. Part of He's success was due to the social confusion caused by Japan's Ichi-Go offensive in the areas of China that Japanese operations effected. He was frequently able to expand Communist areas of operation by allying with local, independent guerrilla forces who were also fighting the Japanese. He's experience fighting the Kuomintang and the Japanese led him to question Mao's unconditional emphasis on the importance of ideological guerrilla warfare at the expense of conventional tactics and military organization.[10]
In October 1945, one month after the Japanese surrender, the command of He's forces was transferred to Peng Dehuai, which operated as the "Northwest Field Army". He became Peng's second-in-command, but spent most of the rest of the Chinese Civil War in central Party headquarters, in and around Yan'an.[9] After the Japanese surrender, in 1945, He was elected to the Central Committee, and his influence rose within both the military and the communist political system. Near the end of the Chinese Civil War He was promoted to command the First Field Army, which was active in Southwest China.[10] After the Communists won the civil war in 1949, He spent most of the 1950s in both civilian and military roles in the southwest.[8]
In the People's Republic[]
He's military accomplishments were recognized when he was promoted to being one of the Ten Marshals in 1955,[10] and he served in a number of civilian positions. He was made Vice Premier, and he headed the National Sports Commission. He was one of the most well-traveled members of the Communist Party elite, and led numerous delegations abroad, meeting with leaders of other Asian countries, the Soviet Union, and East Germany.[7]
After Mao Zedong purged Peng Dehuai in 1959, Mao appointed He to the head of an office to investigate Peng's past and find reasons to criticize Peng. He accepted the position but was sympathetic to Peng, and stalled for over a year before submitting his report. Mao's prestige weakened when it became widely known that Mao's Great Leap Forward had been a disaster, and He eventually presented a report that was positive, and which attempted to vindicate Peng.[11] Peng was partially rehabilitated in 1965, but then purged again at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution 1966.[12] Jiang Qing denounced He in December 1966 of being a "rightist" and of intra-Party factionalism. Following Jiang's accusations He and his supporters were branded an anti-Party element and quickly purged.[13] He's persecutors singled him out by labeling him the "biggest bandit".[10] He was the second highest-ranking member of the Military Affairs Commission at the time that he was purged, and the method in which he and those close to him were purged set the pattern for multiple later purges of the PLA leadership throughout the Cultural Revolution.[13]
After being purged, He was placed under indefinite house arrest for the last two and a half years of his life. He described the conditions of his imprisonment as a period of slow torture, in which his captors "intended to destroy my health so that they can murder me without spilling my blood". During the years that He was imprisoned, his captors restricted his access to water, cut off his house's heat during the winter, and refused him access to medicine to treat his diabetes.[14] He died in 1969 after being hospitalized for the severe malnutrition that he developed while under house arrest. He died soon after being admitted to hospital, after a glucose injection complicated his chronic diabetes.[15]
He was posthumously rehabilitated after Deng Xiaoping came to power in the late 1970s. A stadium in Changsha was named after him in 1987.
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"Intelligence Report: Mao's 'Cultural Revolution' III. The Purge of the P.L.A. and the Stardom of Madame Mao". Central Intelligence Agency. June 1968. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
China at War: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Li Xiaobing. United States of America: ABC-CLIO. 2012. ISBN 978-1-59884-415-3. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
Chung, Jang. White Swans: Three Daughters of China. New York, NY: Touchstone. 2003. ISBN 0-7432-4698-5.
Domes, Jurgen. Peng Te-huai: The Man and the Image. London: C. Hurst & Company. 1985. ISBN 0-905838-99-8.
Rice, Edward E. Mao's Way. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1974. ISBN 0-520-02623-3.
Leung, Edward Pak-wah. Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War. United States of America: Scarecrow Press. 2002. ISBN 0-8108-4435-4.
Whitson, William W., & Huang Chen-hsia. The Chinese High Command: A History of Communist Military Politics, 1927-71. New York: Praeger Publishers. 1973.
Winchester, Simon. "China's Ancient Skyline". The New York Times. July 5, 2007. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
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Home » Business » Democratic Debate Turns Ferocious Over Health Care
Democratic Debate Turns Ferocious Over Health Care
3:40am, 31st July, 2019
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WASHINGTON — It took only one question — the very first — in Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential primary debate to make it clear that the issue that united the party in last year’s congressional elections in many ways now divides it.
When Jake Tapper of CNN asked Senator Bernie Sanders whether his Medicare for All health care plan was “bad policy” and “political suicide,” it set off a half-hour brawl that drew in almost every one of the 10 candidates on the stage. Suddenly, members of the party that had been all about protecting and expanding health care coverage were leveling accusations before a national audience at some of their own — in particular, that they wanted to take it away.
“It used to be Republicans that wanted to repeal and replace,” Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana said in one of the more jolting statements on the subject. “Now many Democrats do as well.”
Those disagreements set a combative tone that continued for the next 90 minutes. The health care arguments underscored the powerful shift the Democratic Party is undergoing, and that was illustrated in a substantive debate that also included trade, race, reparations, border security and the war in Afghanistan.
In the end, it was a battle between aspiration and pragmatism, a crystallization of the struggle between the party’s left and moderate factions.
It is likely to repeat itself during Wednesday night’s debate, whose lineup includes former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Kamala Harris of California. He supports building on the Affordable Care Act by adding an option to buy into a public health plan. She released a proposal this week that would go further, eventually having everyone choose either Medicare or private plans that she said would be tightly regulated by the government.
Democrats know all too well that the issue of choice in health care is a potent one. When President Barack Obama’s promise that people who liked their health plans could keep them under the Affordable Care Act proved to be untrue, Republicans seized on the fallout so effectively that it then propelled them to majorities in both the House and Senate.
On Tuesday night, Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio evoked those Republican attacks of years ago on the Affordable Care Act, saying the Sanders plan “will tell the union members that give away wages in order to get good health care that they will lose their health care because Washington is going to come in and tell them they have a better plan.”
Republicans watching the debate may well have been smiling; the infighting about taking away people’s ability to choose their health care plan and spending too much on a pipe-dream plan played into some of President Trump’s favorite talking points. Mr. Trump is focusing on health proposals that do not involve coverage — lowering drug prices, for example — as his administration sides with the plaintiffs in a court case seeking to invalidate the entire Affordable Care Act, putting millions of people’s coverage at risk.
It was easy to imagine House Democrats who campaigned on health care, helping their party retake control of the chamber, being aghast at the fact that not a single candidate mentioned the case.
Mr. Sanders’s plan would eliminate private health care coverage and set up a universal government-run health system that would provide free coverage for everyone, financed by taxes, including on the middle class. John Delaney, the former congressman from Maryland, repeatedly took swings at the Sanders plan, suggesting that it was reckless and too radical for the majority of voters and could deliver a second term to Mr. Trump.
Mr. Sanders held firm, looking ready to boil over at time — “I wrote the damn bill,” he fumed after Mr. Ryan questioned whether benefits in his plan would prove as comprehensive as he was promising. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the only other candidate in favor of a complete overhaul of the health insurance system that would include getting rid of private coverage, chimed in to back him up.
At one point she seemed to almost plead. “We are not about trying to take away health care from anyone,” she interjected. “That’s what the Republicans are trying to do.”
[Bernie Sanders “wrote the damn bill.” Everyone else is just fighting about it.]
Mr. Delaney has been making a signature issue of his opposition to Medicare for all, instead holding up his own plan, which would automatically enroll every American under 65 in a new public health care plan or let them choose to receive a credit to buy private insurance instead. He repeatedly disparaged what he called “impossible promises.”
He was one of a number of candidates — including Beto O’Rourke, the former congressman from Texas; Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind. — who sought to stake out a middle ground by portraying themselves as defenders of free choice with plans that would allow, but not force, people to join Medicare or a new government health plan, or public option. (Some candidates would require people to pay into those plans, while others would not.)
The debate moderators also pressed Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren on whether the middle class would have to help pay for a Sanders-style plan, which would provide a generous set of benefits — beyond what Medicare covers — to every American without charging them premiums or deductibles. One of the revenue options Mr. Sanders has suggested is a 4 percent tax on the income of families earning more than $29,000.
In defending his plan, Mr. Sanders repeatedly pointed out how many Americans are uninsured or underinsured, unable to pay high deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs and thus unable to seek care.
Analysts often point out that the focus on raising taxes to pay for universal health care leaves out the fact that in exchange, personal health care costs would drop or disappear.
“A health reform plan might involve tax increases, but it’s important to quantify the savings in out-of-pocket health costs as well,” Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, tweeted during the debate. “Political attacks don’t play by the same rules.”
A Kaiser poll released Tuesday found that two-thirds of the public supports a public option, though most Republicans oppose it. The poll also found about half the public supports a Medicare for all plan, down from 56 percent in April. The vast majority of respondents with employer coverage — which more than 150 million Americans have — rated it as excellent or good.
In truth, Mr. Delaney’s own universal health care plan could also face political obstacles, not least because it, too, would cost a lot. He has proposed paying for it by, among other steps, letting the government negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies and requiring wealthy Americans to cover part of the cost of their health care.
Had Mr. Sanders not responded so forcefully to the attacks, it would have felt like piling on, though some who criticized his goals sounded more earnest than harsh.
“I think how we win an election is to bring everyone with us,” Ms. Klobuchar said, adding later in the debate that a public option would be “the easiest way to move forward quickly, and I want to get things done.”
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A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
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Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
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Presto chang-o
Lifter Puller, we hardly knew ye.
by Keri Carlson
Could it be? Is that the voice of Craig Finn? Is that Tad Kubler’s signature sliding quick stop guitar? Could this be a hidden Lifter Puller track, never before released? Or – gasp – is this new Lifter Puller?!?!
Yes, this is the voice of Craig Finn and the guitar stylings of Tad Kubler – both members of one of the most beloved Minneapolis bands since the Replacements, the now departed Lifter Puller. But sorry kids, this is not LFTR PLLR. This is the Hold Steady.
“The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me” is a bit of a tease at first because it could easily pass for a Lifter Puller album. Most of this is because of Finn’s unique snarling yet cartoonish speak-sing vocals. Finn has an instantly recognizable voice, making it the first thing you notice in any project that he does. The Hold Steady has none of the illustrious reoccurring characters or places Finn created in Lifter Puller – looks like the Nice Nice, Night Club Dwight, Katrina and (sniff) the Eye-Patch Guy are as good as dead. Despite the loss of these characters, which seemed to define Finn’s songwriting, the Hold Steady’s lyrics are familiar and still distinctly Finn.
The second song on the album, “The Swish,” proves some things will never change. Finn sputters a list of characters’ names and then what their friends call them, something he did with Lifter Puller. None however, were ever as clever as, “She said my name is Steve Perry but people call me Circuit City / I’m so well connected.” Finn then revisits this theme later in the album with a small twist on “Hostile, Mass.” where he shouts, “Hey my name is Corey / I’m really into hardcore / People call me hard Corey / Don’t you hate these clever people and all these clever people parties.”
Of course, this Finn wouldn’t be the same Finn if the lyrics were not full of tales of disillusioned Finns searching for answers in bars, drugs and sex only to end up in strange places in the morning. The Hold Steady retains Finn’s bitter cynicism of those who escape to the night life.
Though the lyrics and themes of the Hold Steady are similar to Lifter Puller, there is something a bit different about them that is hard to place. With Lifter Puller, Finn created an imaginary world which his lyrics gave an insider’s perspective into. The Hold Steady doesn’t seem to have its own world. Now, however, it feels as though we get to hear the voice of Finn, not only characters. When Finn sings lines such as, “She said it’s good to see you back in a bar band, baby/ I said it’s great to see you’re still in the bars,” you take them to be much more autobiographical than anything in Lifter Puller.
It’s easy to get caught up in just Finn’s role in the Hold Steady because his lyrics are so unique and enthralling. But Finn’s songs would not be half as glamorous if not for the rest of the Hold Steady. The band adds the perfect amount of cheesy keyboards, saxophones and guitar solos to capture a dingy bar scene. The contrast between Kubler’s high-pitched quirky guitar beeps and Galen Polivka’s low rumbling bass make the songs on “Almost Killed Me” come to life.
We might always miss the characters of Lifter Puller, but now with the Hold Steady, there’s a whole other world of dark seedy night life to be explored.
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Crude Oil Bearishness Is Here To Stay
Osama Rizvi
Despite seven weeks of inventory withdrawals, the global oil market has failed to translate this effect into a sustainable and significant oil price increase. Doubts remain. As reported, OPEC production has edged up. The compliance rate among OPEC and NOPEC members of the Vienna deal, extended to March 2018, has fallen. US production has added more barrels to global production.
Lastly, the speculation about oil demand peaking in 20 or 30 years due to the rise of EVs and renewable energy further suggests an on-going softening of crude prices.
Considering the factors above, it is highly probable that oil markets, in the near future, will remain bearish and prices range bound until or unless there is a drastic change in world oil consumption (Demand) and/or deeper cuts by OPEC-NOPEC members (supply).
Last week oil inventories dropped by 8.9 million barrels as reported by the EIA. But the huge inventory withdraw failed to impact oil prices in the same way as did the build-up of same quantity of barrels last year when oil prices took a deep plunge on the news. The fact is that markets have now realized that inventory withdraws- amplified due to the summer driving season which normally sees gasoline demand pick up – are only a temporary relief and that there is no certainty that after summer driving season is over the inventories will not start ballooning up anew. Such doubts are not unfounded. We have seen that despite production cuts pledged in November 2016, and the extension of that very deal to March 2018, oil prices have remained at a sub-$55 level.
Of course, rising US production has been a constant factor influencing the effectiveness of the cuts, as the US was able to produce almost an equivalent amount of production that the OPEC-NOPEC producers decided to cut in 2016. A rising US rig count and an uptick in E&P budgets was a sign of confidence in US oil producers. According to the latest reports, production has added another 79,000 barrels making the total figure stand at 9.5 million barrels per day. Only just one year ago the figure was 8 million barrels. One can see, quite vividly, how US production has been a cause of concern for global crude markets. The argument that US producers are starting to feel the pain of low oil prices is difficult to buy when companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Eni posted profits in the second quarter of this year. Exxon’s profits nearly doubled while Eni and Royal Dutch Shell reported strong profits as well. These results signal that the oil and gas industry has started to recover from lower oil prices over the past three years. According to an article in the Financial Times, “Lydia Rainforth, analyst at Barclays, said such earnings offered reassurance to oil investors that “the sector works at $50 per barrel”, referring to the level where crude prices have largely swung this year.”
According to a new report from Haynes & Boone oil bankruptcies have slowed down in 2017 with only 14 companies filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy from 50 in the same period in 2016. Another sign that corroborates the recovery process in US Shale industry. The rig count, at 768, is highest since April 2015 as well. According to Rex Preston Stoner, an energy analyst with HUB International, the US rig count is a useful barometer of the health of the US oil & gas sector but such health is unevenly distributed with stronger drilling contractors – such as Helmerich & Payne – pulling through this downturn while smaller drilling contractors still struggling.
The IEA has raised concerns concerning demand growth and the OPEC compliance rate which can prolong a much-needed act of re-balancing. The compliance rate has slipped to 75%. Oil prices have fallen 9% this year on suspicions that OPEC and NOPEC members are not doing enough to drain the glut. The United Kingdom, France and India are mulling decisions to ban sales of EVs in the future. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, electric vehicles may displace 2 million barrels of crude oil per day by 2023. While this may be an exaggeration, the threat of EVs to the hydrocarbon industry is not to be ignored. It may be not a matter of if but when. In the long term, the rise of EVs is certainly predicted to disturb the oil consumption pattern of the global transport sector.
From the height of triple-digit prices ($140) some years ago, oil has fallen to a range of $40-$55 (touching $26 in January, 2016). US oil production is expected to rise in the future as well – perhaps exceeding 10 million barrels per day. According to the IEA, US production will grow by 117,000 barrels in September as compared to August. Determination among OPEC members to keep cuts on production is wavering as members have not seen any benefit to their output cuts. Accordingly, the outlook for oil is not strong. In light of all these factors, one can easily sense prevailing market bearishness in the future to come. Oil prices are expected to remain ‘range bound.’
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Energy transition is a global challenge that needs an urgent global response
Timur Tillyaev
COP26 showed that green energy is not yet appealing enough for the world to reach a consensus on coal phase-out. The priority now should be creating affordable and viable alternatives
Many were hoping that COP26 would be the moment the world agreed to phase out coal. Instead, we received a much-needed reality check when the pledge to “phase out” coal was weakened to “phase down”.
This change was reportedly pushed by India and China whose economies are still largely reliant on coal. The decision proved that the world is not yet ready to live without the most polluting fossil fuels.
This is an enormous problem. Coal is the planet’s largest source of carbon dioxide emissions, but also a major source of energy, producing over one-third of global electricity generation. Furthermore, global coal-fired electricity generation could reach an all-time high in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Given the continued demand for coal, especially in the emerging markets, we need to accelerate the use of alternative energy sources, but also ensure their equal distribution around the world.
There are a number of steps policymakers and business leaders are taking to tackle this challenge, but all of them need to be accelerated if we are to incentivise as rapid shift away from coal as the world needs.
The first action to be stepped up is public and private investment in renewable energy. This investment can help on three fronts: improve efficiency and increase output of existing technologies, and help develop new technologies. For green alternatives to coal to become more economically viable, especially, for poorer countries, we need more supply and lower costs.
There are some reasons to be hopeful. During COP26 more than 450 firms representing a ground-breaking $130 trillion of assets pledged investment to meet the goals set out in the Paris climate agreement.
The benefits of existing investment are also becoming clearer. Global hydrogen initiatives, for example, are accelerating rapidly, and if investment is kept up, the Hydrogen Council expects it to become a competitive low-carbon solution in long haul trucking, shipping, and steel production.
However, the challenge remains enormous. The IEA warned in October 2021 that investment in renewable energy needs to triple by the end of this decade to effectively combat climate change. Momentum must be kept up.
This is especially important for countries like India where coal is arguably the main driver for the country’s economic growth and supports “as many as 10-15 million people … through ancillary employment and social programs near the mines”, according to Brookings Institute.
This leads us to the second step which must be accelerated: support for developing countries to incentivise energy transition in a way which does not compromise their growth.
Again, there is activity on this front, but it is insufficient. Twelve years ago, richer countries pledged to channel US$100 billion a year to less wealthy nations by 2020, to help them adapt to climate change.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that the financial assistance failed to reach $80 billion in 2019, and likely fell substantially short in 2020. Governments say they will reach the promised amount by 2023. If anything, they should aim to reach it sooner.
There are huge structural costs in adapting electricity grids to be powered at a large scale by renewable energy rather than fossil fuels. Businesses will also need to adapt and millions of employees across the world will need to be re-skilled. To incentivise making these difficult but necessary changes, developing countries should be provided with the financial support promised them over a decade ago.
The third step to be developed further is regulation. Only governments are in a position to pass legislation which encourages a faster energy transition. To take just one example, the European Commission’s Green Deal, proposes introduction of new CO2 emission performance standards for cars and vans, incentivising the electrification of vehicles.
This kind of simple, direct legislation can reduce consumption of fossil fuels and encourage industry to tackle climate change.
Widespread legislative change won’t be straightforward. Governments should closely involve industry in the consultative process to ensure changes drive innovation rather than add unnecessary bureaucracy, which has already delayed development of renewable assets in countries including Germany and Italy. Still, regardless of the challenges, stronger regulation will be key to turning corporate and sovereign pledges into concrete achievements.
COP26 showed that we are not ready as a globe to phase out coal. The priority for the global leaders must now be to do everything they can to drive the shift towards green energy and reach the global consensus needed to save our planet.
Pakistan–Russia Gas Stream: Opportunities and Risks of New Flagship Energy Project
Olga Malik
Russia’s Yekaterinburg hosted the 7th meeting of the Russian-Pakistani Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation on November 24–26, 2021. Chaired by Omar Ayub Khan, Pakistan’s Minister for Economic Affairs, and Nikolai Shulginov, Russia’s Minister of Energy, the meeting was attended by around 70 policy makers, heads of key industrial companies and businessmen from both sides, marking a significant change in the bilateral relations between Moscow and Islamabad.
Three pillars of bilateral relations
Among the most important questions raised by the Commission were collaboration in trade, investment and the energy sector.
According to the Russian Federal Customs Service, the Russian-Pakistani trade turnover increased in 2020 by 45.8% compared to 2019, totaling 789.8 million U.S. dollars. Yet, there is still huge potential for increasing the trade volume for the two countries, including textiles and agricultural products of Pakistan and Russian products of machinery, technical expertise as well as transfer of knowledge and R&D.
Another prospective project discussed at the intergovernmental level is initiating a common trade corridor between Russia, the Central Asia and Pakistan. Based on the One-Belt-One-Road concept, launched by China, the Pakistan Road project is supposed to create a free flow of goods between Russia and Pakistan through building necessary economic and transport infrastructure, including railway construction and special customs conditions. During the Commission meeting, both countries expressed their intention to collaborate on renewal of the railway machines fleet and facilities in Pakistan, including supplies of mechanized track maintenance and renewal machines; supplies of 50 shunting (2400HP or less) and 100 mainline (over 3000HP) diesel locomotives; joint R&D of the technical and economic feasibility of locomotives production based in the Locomotive Factory Risalpur and other. The proposed contractors of the project might be the Russian Sinara Transport Machines, Uralvagonzavod JSC that stand ready to supply Pakistan Railway with freight wagons, locomotives and passenger coaches. In order to engage import and export activities between Russian and Pakistani businessmen, the Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce signed a memorandum with Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry, marking a new step in bilateral relations. Similar memorandums have already been signed with other Chambers of Commerce in Russian regions.
— Today, the ties between Russia and Pakistan are objectively strengthening in all areas including economic, political and military collaboration. But we, as businessmen, are primarily interested in the development of trade relations and new transit corridors for export-import activities. For example, the prospective pathways of the Pakistan-Central Asia-Russia trade and economic corridor project are now being actively discussed at the intergovernmental level, — said Mohsin Sheikh, Director of the Pakistan Russia Business Council of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry. — For Islamabad, this issue is one of the most important. Based on a similar experience of trade with China, we see great prospects for this direction. That is why representatives of Pakistan’s government, customs officers, diplomats and businessmen gathered in Yekaterinburg today.
However, the flagship project of the new era of the Pakistan-Russia relations is likely to be the Pakistan Gas Stream. Previously known as the North-South Gas Pipeline, this mega-project (1,100 kilometers in length) is expected to cost up to USD 2,5 billion and is claimed to be highly beneficial for Pakistan. Being a net importer of energy, Pakistan will be able to develop and integrate new sources of natural gas and transport it to the densely populated industrialized north. At the same time, the project will enable Pakistan—whose main industries are still dependent on the coal consumption—to take a major step forward gradually replacing coal with relatively more ecologically sustainable natural gas. To enable this significant development in the Pakistan’s energy sector, Moscow and Islamabad have made preliminary agreements to carry on the research of Pakistan’s mineral resource sector including copper, gold, iron, lead and zinc ores of Baluchistan, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and Punjab Provinces.
A lot opportunities but a lot more risks?
The Pakistan Stream Gas Pipe Project undoubtedly opens major investment opportunities for Pakistan. Among them are establishment of new refineries; the launch of virtual LNG pipelines; building of LNG onshore storages of LNG; investing in strategic oil and gas storages. Yet, it seems that Pakistan is likely to win more from the Project than Russia. And here’s why. The current version of the agreement signed by Moscow and Islamabad has been essentially reworked. According to it, Russia will likely to receive only 26 percent in the project stake instead of 85 percent as it was previously planned, while the Pakistani side will retain a controlling stake (74 percent) in the project.
Another stranding factor for Russia is although Moscow will be entitled to provide all the necessary facilities and equipment for the building of the pipeline, the entire construction process will be supervised by an independent Pakistani-based company, which will substantially boost Pakistan’s influence at each development. Finally, the vast bulk of the gas transported via the pipeline will likely come from Qatar, which will further strengthen Qatar’s role in the Pakistani energy sector.
Big strategy but safety first
The Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline will surely become an important strategic tool for Russia to reactivate the South Asian vector of its foreign policy. Even though the project’s aim is not to gain a fast investment return and economic benefits, it follows significant strategic goals for both countries. As Russia-India political and economic relations are cooling down, Moscow is likely to boost ties with Pakistan, including cooperation in economy, military, safety and potentially nuclear energy, that was highlighted by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during visit to Islamabad earlier this year. Such an expansion of relations with Pakistan will allow Russia to gain a more solid foothold in the South Asian part of China’s BRI, thus opening up a range of new lucrative opportunities for Moscow.
Apart from its economic and political aspects, the Pakistan Stream Project also has clear geopolitical implications. It marks Russia’s growing influence in South Asia and points to some remarkable transformations that are currently taking place in this region. The ongoing geopolitical game within the India-Russia-Pakistan triangle is yet less favorable for New Delhi much because of the Pakistan Stream Project. Even though the project is not directly aimed to jeopardize the India’s role in the region, it is considered the first dangerous signal for New Delhi. For instance, the International “Extended troika” Conference on Afghanistan, which was held in Moscow last spring united representatives from the United States, Russia, China and Pakistan but left India aside (even though the latter has important strategic interests in Afghanistan).
With the recent withdrawal of the U.S. military forces from Afghanistan, Moscow has become literally the only warden of Central Asia’s security. As Russia is worried about the possibility of Islamist militants infiltrating the Central Asia, the main defensive buffer in the South for Moscow, the recent decision of Vladimir Putin to equip its military base in Tajikistan, which neighbors Afghanistan, seems to be just on time. Obviously, Islamabad that faces major risks amidst the Afghanistan crisis sees Moscow as a prospective strategic partner who will help Imran Khan strengthen the Pakistani efforts in fighting the terrorism threat.
How wind power is transforming communities in Viet Nam
MD Staff
In two provinces of Viet Nam, a quiet transformation is taking place, driven by the power of renewable energy.
Thien Nghiep Commune, a few hundred kilometres from Ho Chi Min City, is a community of just over 6,000 people – where for years, people relied largely on farming, fishing and seasonal labour to make ends meet.
Now, thanks to a wind farm backed by the Seed Capital Assistance Facility (SCAF) – a multi-donor trust fund, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – people in the Thien Nghiep Commune are accessing new jobs, infrastructure and – soon – cheap, clean energy. The 40MW Dai Phong project, one of two wind farms run by SCAF partner company the Blue Circle, has brought new hope to the community.
For the 759 million people in the world who lack access to electricity, the introduction of clean energy solutions can bring improved healthcare, better education and affordable broadband, creating new jobs, livelihoods and sustainable economic value to reduce poverty.
“It’s not only about the technology and the big spinning wheel for me. It’s more about making investment decisions for the planet and at the same time not compromising on the necessity that we call electricity,” said Nguyen Thi Hoai Thuong, who works as a community liaison. “The interesting part is I work for the project, but I actually work for the community and with the community.”
While the wind farm is not yet online, a focus on local hiring and paying fair prices for land has already made a big difference to the community.
“I used the money from the land sale to the Dai Phong project to repair my house and invest in my cattle. Currently, my life is stable and I have not encountered any difficulties since selling the land,” said Ms. Le Thi Doan.
The energy sector accounts for approximately 75 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). UNEP research shows that these need to be reduced dramatically and eventually eliminated to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Renewable energy, in all its forms, is one of humanity’s greatest assets in the fight to limit climate change. Capacity across the globe continues to grow every year, lowering both GHGs and air pollution, but the pace of action must accelerate to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C this century.
“To boost growth in renewables, however, companies need to access finance,” said Rakesh Shejwal, a Programme Management Officer at SCAF. “This is where SCAF comes in. SCAF works through private equity funds and development companies to mobilize early-stage investment low-carbon projects in developing countries.”
The 176 projects it seed financed have mobilized US $3.47 billion to build over one gigawatt of generation capacity, avoiding emissions of 4.68 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent each year.
But SCAF’s work isn’t just about cutting emissions. It is bringing huge benefits across the sustainable development agenda: increasing access to clean and reliable electricity and boosting communities across Asia and Africa. SCAF will be potentially creating 17,000 jobs.
This is evident in Ninh Thuan province, where the Blue Circle created both the first commercial wind power project and the first to be commissioned by a foreign private investor in Viet Nam.
Here, the Dam Nai wind farm has delivered fifteen 2.625 MW turbines, the largest in the country at the time. These will generate approximately 100 GWh per year. They will avoid over 68,000 tCO2e annually and create more than an estimated 302 temporary construction and 13 permanent operation and maintenance jobs for the local community.
Students from the local high school in Ninh Thuan Province were also given the opportunity to meet with engineers and technicians on the project, increasing their knowledge about how renewable energy works and opening up new career paths.
SCAF, through its partners, is supporting clean energy project development in the Southeast Asian region and African region. SCAF has more than a decade of experience in decarbonization and is currently poised to run till 2026.
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Evaluation of Probabilistic Forecasts: Proper Scoring Rules and Moments
Tsyplakov, Alexander (2013): Evaluation of Probabilistic Forecasts: Proper Scoring Rules and Moments.
The paper provides an overview of probabilistic forecasting and discusses a theoretical framework for evaluation of probabilistic forecasts which is based on proper scoring rules and moments. An artificial example of predicting second-order autoregression and an example of predicting the RTSI stock index are used as illustrations.
probabilistic forecast; forecast calibration; probability integral transform; scoring rule; moment condition
C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C5 - Econometric Modeling > C52 - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C5 - Econometric Modeling > C53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods ; Simulation Methods
Alexander Tsyplakov
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MSU to honor 2020 graduates with special ceremonies
Michigan State University will hold special, in-person commencement ceremonies this September for 2020 graduates whose graduation events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, there were 13,852 total MSU graduates across the spring, summer and fall semesters.
“We promised these graduates an in-person celebration and are proud of the contributions from faculty and staff across the university to make this a reality,” said MSU Provost Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D. “The 2020 and 2021 classes persevered through a time of unprecedented challenge. These celebrations are as much about these graduates’ fortitude and resilience as their academic accomplishments.”
All degree level graduates from 2020, as well as spring 2021 master’s, educational specialist and doctoral graduates, will be invited to ceremonies on Sept. 17-20. All degree-level graduates from the summer 2021 semesters will be given the option to attend in September or participate in the fall 2021 ceremonies in December.
“Last year, we were all incredibly disappointed to not be able to celebrate together in person the incredible graduates. While we did present virtual options, we realize it was difficult for many of the graduates and their families to not gather together in person,” said MSU President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., M.D. “We are proud of each and every Spartan graduate and look forward to the positive impacts they will make with their outstanding MSU education.”
All the ceremonies will take place at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center, 534 Birch Road in East Lansing. Commencement ceremonies will be live-streamed and can be watched via MSU’s commencement website. Additional details will be shared closer to the events.
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Japanese national treasures framed by beautiful autumn leaves
Nara – the former capital of Japan and central hub for politics, economics, and culture predating Kyoto. This ancient locale’s history as the heart of Japan spans throughout history with it also being home to the ancient capitals of Asuka, Fujiwara, and Heijo-kyo between the 600s and 800s. The prefecture of Nara boasts the most national treasures, important cultural properties, historical structures, and historic cultural resources in all of Japan.
Tokyo is now the central hub of Japan, however, it only became the country’s hub for politics and economics relatively recently in the 17th century. Prior to Tokyo becoming Japan’s modern capital, Nara and Kyoto formed the heart of Japan and was home to the Emperor himself. Furthermore, the largest city in western Japan, Osaka, also has its own unique culture built through centuries. In fact, western Japan houses vastly more ancient and Middle Age historical sites than what can be found in eastern Japan.
While Nara is home to such historical prestige, it is often not the first city that comes to mind as a major sightseeing spot in Japan. Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and perhaps Sapporo, owing to the recent skiing boom, are the cities tourists tend to flock to. For those looking for a deep dive into Japan’s history, Nara should be the top destination to visit.
One of the reasons why Nara is not more mainstream is possibly because it is sandwiched between the big names of Osaka and Kyoto. It also finds itself off the shinkansen (bullet train) line, making it less accessible than the aforementioned cities. With the city less than an hour away from both Osaka and Kyoto, many tourists are inclined to drop by for a daytrip, but it is far more recommended to spend more time soaking up all of the temples and other ancient Japanese offerings to be found. Keep reading for a collection of must-see spots that can be reached by foot from Nara city. Drop by these places between October and November, if possible, to see all of the sights draped in beautiful autumnal leaves.
Kasuga Grand Shrine and an ancient forest
Kasuga Grand Shrine was built in 768 to protect Heijo-kyo (the capital at the time) and bring prosperity to the people. According to legend, a kami (Japanese god) rode on the back of a white deer to the Kasuga Grand Shrine, which is why the deer are now regarded as sacred animals and can be found happily living in the surrounds.
The beautifully red-coloured shrine sits proudly at the base of Mikasa-yama and offers plenty to see, including long-stretching torii gates.
A particular sight to see are the lanterns lining the approximately 52-metre-long eastern corridor, and 81-metre-long western corridor. About 1,000 lanterns that have been offered by visitors over the span of 800 years can be found here. Each of the lanterns are unique in shape and design, with brand-new gold ones also found in the mix. In fact, all of the lanterns start off looking gold and gradually change colour over time.
This shrine was registered part of the “Historic Monuments of Nara” in 1998, with the shrine and the surrounding ancient forest of Mikasa-yama also recognised as a world heritage site. The ancient forest found here is also a location that should be on the list of all visitors.
For those with a leisurely itinerary planned for Nara, a walk around the Kasuga Primeval Forest is highly recommended. Located 498 metres above sea level and spanning across an area of approximately 250 hectares, the primeval forest carves a beautiful sight across the eastern mountainous backdrop of Nara. The rare primeval vegetation on this mountain has been left relatively untouched as it was a sacred site of Kasuga Grand Shrine and was actively protected in the 9th century through an order to prohibit the felling of trees. The official trail is approximately 10 kilometres long and would take about four and a half hours to leisurely conquer.
Pray to the massive Buddha statue and bask in the Nigatsu-do sunset at Todai-ji
Emperor Shomu used his power to build this temple in the 8th century. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in December 1998 as part of the “Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara”. The area spanning from the centre of Nara Park reaching towards the north is home to a large number of Important Cultural Properties.
Standing at a towering 14.98 metres tall is the “Great Buddha of Nara” (nara no daibutusu) which is housed in the almost 50-metre-tall Great Buddha Hall. Coming to terms with the idea that these structures were built many centuries ago is sure to leave many mouths gaping.
Drop by to be awestruck by the sheer size of the Great Buddha whilst also allowing time to admire the smaller statues of Buddha inside the building.
The Great South Gate found at the entrance of Todai-ji is also a national treasure that is sure to impress. On either side of the gate are two 8.4-metre-tall wooden Nio statues standing guard with their menacing looks.
A visit to Nigatsu-do around sunset will treat visitors with a wonderful view of the city sprawling below. The gradually fading sunlight painting the city of Nara in its warming glow as the night begins to fall will leave a lasting impression on visitors who make the trip.
Strolling around the famous Isui-en Garden
The Isui-en Garden is made up of two gardens worth a stroll around to soak in the surrounding scenery of Mount Wakakusa, the Great South Gate of Todai-ji, and Mount Kasuga.
Both gardens feature centrally located ponds and span across 13,500 metres square with the first garden built in the Edo period, and the second built during the Meiji period. The gardens are absolutely stunning during the autumn when the leaves are at their most colourful. Visitors can also stop by museum featuring bronze wares and pottery, or enjoy a leisurely cup of tea at the tea house within the grounds.
Nara is absolutely teeming with various other historical sites, but for those visiting the city for the first time a walk around these hot spots should be your first port of call.
【Written by Kazuya Baba – Australia based writer】
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Jared Freid
Doors: 8:45pm Show: 9:15pm
Jared Freid is a stand-up comedian based out of New York City, with a strong focus on dating and relationships. His comedy is current and reflects the ordinary daily thoughts of everyone you know, especially if you know a lot of millennials that are obsessing over dating apps, trying to be real adults, and worrying about their bodies. (For the record, Jared’s mom thinks his body is “just fine.”)
Besides headlining and touring at clubs around the country, Jared hosts three highly-rated weekly podcasts. He co-hosts U Up? with Jordana Abraham of Betches, where they discuss their takes on modern dating with issues ranging from apps to hookups to relationships. U Up? has over 750,000 monthly listeners, many of whom came out to support the U Up? Live Tour that visited over 20 cities in 2019. Jared’s JTrain Podcast boasts over 450,000 listeners per month and regularly lands in the iTunes top 100. The show has a cult following of loyal fans. Guests have included: Michael Che, Pete Davidson, Colin Quinn, Sal Vulcano, Bert Kreischer, Dave Attell, Michelle Wolf and more. It’s been called “A Dear Abby for Dudes,” which is why both men and women tune in religiously. Additionally, every Monday night after The Bachelor, Jared goes live on YouTube in his Rose Rehash.
In 2019, Jared released his first full-length comedy album Always a Momma Bear through Virtual Comedy Network. The album debuted at #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts, #3 on the Billboard Comedy Charts, and was ranked the 9th best comedy album of the year by SiriusXM Comedy. In 2021, Jared’s special Socially Distanced… Of Course premiered on YouTube to critical acclaim and rave reviews.
Jared has a remarkable insight into how millennial relationships (or even situationships) begin and end. Many of Jared’s fans say that his advice has helped them in their personal lives. Jared’s fans also seek out his voice in the online publishing world. He’s written for TotalFratMove, BroBible, Betches, and HeTexted. His columns delve into everything from sports to The Bachelor to the pitfalls of dating in the information age. His writing has both sides of the aisle nodding their head while thinking, “I’ve been on the toilet way too long.”
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Cultural Studies Key to National Security
October 2, 2019 Topic: Security Region: Americas Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: National SecurityCultureMiddle EastAnthropologyTerrorism
A lack of understanding between American and Middle-Eastern culture is a national security risk.
by Nicholas Tampio
After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a commission formed to figure out why the attacks occurred. One of the culprits, according to the commission’s 9/11 report, was “lack of imagination.”
With few exceptions, the report stated, government officials could not imagine that Osama bin Laden and his affiliates, hidden in a remote part of Afghanistan, could strike at the heart of America’s financial, military and political power.
“To us, Afghanistan seemed very far away,” the report stated. “To members of al Qaeda, America seemed very close. In a sense, they were more globalized than we were.”
Prior to 9/11, according to the report, few colleges or universities offered courses in Middle Eastern languages or Islamic studies. The commission maintained that this made it difficult to recruit officers qualified for counterterrorism. Even though the U.S. has funded programs in foreign languages and area studies since the Cold War, the 9/11 attacks exposed our comparative ignorance of the Middle East.
The Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies would seem to represent the answer to the 9/11 report’s call for a broader educational approach to national security. Founded in 2005, the consortium has a substantial number of students studying foreign languages. The program has 300 students studying Arabic, 44 studying Persian, and 91 students studying Urdu, the highest enrollment in Urdu language courses in the United States. Lack of Arabic linguists has been cited as one of the reasons the United States missed critical messages sent by al–Qaiida about the 9/11 attacks a day before they occurred.
The Duke-UNC’s program teaches on topics such as cybersecurity and countering violent extremism. Students may also take courses on music and movies in the Middle East.
But to the Trump administration, the Duke-UNC consortium isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do when it teaches students about Middle Eastern culture through movies, music and concerts.
A ‘Fundamental Misalignment’
In August, assistant secretary for postsecondary education Robert King told the Duke-UNC consortium they were using federal funds the wrong way. In a letter published in the “Federal Register,” King informed the consortium that they are spending Title VI funds on unauthorized activities. Title VI of the Higher Education Act funds, among other things, strengthening undergraduate education, research on different areas of the world, and improvement of foreign language training.
“Although Iranian art and film may be of subjects of deep intellectual interest,” King explained, such offerings represent “a fundamental misalignment” between the course offerings and Title VI’s requirement that the programming advance the “security, stability, and economic vitality of the United States.”
In his letter, King criticizes the consortium for using federal money to support the writing of a paper titled “Radical Love: Teachings from Islamic Mystical Tradition.” He also had a problem with the program sponsoring a concert series that included a performance by hip hop artist Marco Pavé, also known as the “millennial Muslim from Memphis.”
In my view as a political scientist who has written extensively about Islamic political thought, I maintain that these kinds of cultural programming can support America’s national security interests widely construed.
Movies teach a society what other peoples think and feel. They also offer insights into what their legitimate grievances are, such as American support for the Shah before the Iranian Revolution, and what attracts other people to America, such as freedom and music. Films such as “Persepolis” – about an Iranian girl who grows up during the Islamic Revolution – help to humanize Iranians and shed light on the complex relationship they have with Islamic fundamentalism.
Resources for Security
The federal government has given the Duke-UNC consortium an annual $235,000 Title VI grant as a National Resource Center to provide a “full understanding” of the Middle East.
The Duke-UNC consortium’s grant has been continued for the 2019-2020 academic year. However, by questioning the consortium’s course offerings, the Trump administration is signaling that it has little regard for academic freedom and that it has a narrow view of what’s important to national security.
When America’s college students – who are America’s future policymakers, security analysts, government and military leaders – watch foreign movies, go to concerts and learn about other religions, it better prepares them for the work that they have to do to keep America safe. This includes recognizing threats as well as establishing peaceful relations with people around the globe. As Terry Magnuson, UNC’s Chancellor for Research, stated in his reply to King’s letter: “Cultural and historical programs provide essential preparation for work in areas of national need.”
Diverse Perspectives
To better understand the Duke-UNC consortium controversy, it pays to look at the broader context. Since at least 2014, pro-Israel groups have pushed for the federal government to tighten the leash on how Middle Eastern centers use Title VI funds.
This spring, the Duke-UNC consortium hosted a conference on the conflict over Gaza. U.S. Rep. George Holding, R-NC, asked Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to investigate. DeVos promised to look into whether the consortium was supporting activities that “reflect diverse perspectives.” Then, King took up the baton with his letter to the Duke-UNC consortium.
In his letter, King argued that the consortium appears “to lack balance.” He complained that the consortium emphasizes the “positive aspects of Islam” but not the discrimination faced by religious minorities in the Middle East, including of Christians and Jews.
A Campaign Against Academic Freedom
Scholars have stated that the Trump administration’s action represents an “unprecedented” intervention into academic matters.
Christopher S. Rose, a former Title VI officer, remarked that he has never seen a department of education official “ridiculing courses based on their title.”
Jay Smith, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, argues that the Trump administration’s action constitutes “political meddling.” He also said it poses a “clear threat to academic freedom.”
Cliff Smith, Washington project director for the Middle East Forum, defends the Trump’s administration scrutiny of programming that receives education funds dedicated to national security. He offers this thought experiment: “If you were a professor in charge of a class on geopolitical strategy focusing on Iran, and a student wrote a paper analyzing gender roles in Iranian films, would you give the student a passing grade? Would it even matter if his film analysis happened to be good?”
It is fine for academics to debate among themselves how to balance course offerings in the humanities and social sciences in a National Resource Center. For many academics, though, it sends a chill down our spine when a federal agency threatens to defund academic programming whose value it does not see.
One of the recommendations of the 9/11 report was to “institutionalize imagination.” The Duke-UNC program helps further this goal. Courses about Iranian movies, hip hop music and Islam’s mystical tradition are not just of “intellectual interest.” Art and culture, I believe, can help the country envision new threats as well as how to establish good relations across the globe.
Nicholas Tampio, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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Cattle Breeder, Extension Educator Inducted in Dairy Hall of Service
Home // Home // Cattle Breeder, Extension Educator Inducted in Dairy Hall of Service
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A Jersey cattle breeder and a retired Ohio State University Extension educator in dairy management have been inducted into this year's Ohio State University Department of Animal Sciences Dairy Science Hall of Service.
The Dairy Science Hall of Service recognizes individuals who have made a substantial and noteworthy contribution toward the improvement of the Ohio dairy industry, elevated the stature of dairy farmers, or inspired Ohio State University students. The award is generally given to an industry-related individual, as well as a retiree affiliated with the university.
Lowell Stevens, of Champaign County, and OSU Extension educator Thomas Noyes, were selected for the award recently during the annual Dairy Recognition and Banquet in Plain City, Ohio.
Stevens is well known for his commitment to advancing the Jersey breed, his dedication to educating youth, and his untiring efforts to advance the Ohio dairy industry. He has spent over 40 years as a breeding technician, area sales representative, and area program consultant for Genex Cooperative, Inc.
He helped form Club Hill Jerseys in 1980, and since then, has enjoyed notoriety on the show circuit. At the 1985 Ohio State Fair, Club Hill Jerseys won Junior Champion, Grand Champion, and Premier Breeder and Exhibitor. His family has participated in the All-American Jersey Show for 12 years, with highlights including several Genetic Index awards and breeding the 1989 Reserve Grand Champion. Stevens is most well known on the state level for the Ohio Spring Classic sale that he manages every Memorial Day and consistently rates as one of the best sales in the country.
Lowell's commitment to youth is evident. He has served as a 4-H advisor for 25 years and has sat on both the county and state 4-H Advisory Boards. He served on the 2006 All-American Junior Jersey Activities Committee, the Spring Dairy Expo Committee, the State Ethics Committee, and the Host Day Committee for the 2000 National Holstein Convention. He was co-chair of the 2003 National Jersey Convention in Ohio.
Lowell currently represents Genex on the board of the Ohio Dairy Producers, and is a member of the Ohio Jersey Breeder's Association, Ohio Purebred Dairy Cattle Association, American Jersey Cattle Association, and the National Dairy Shrine.
Among the awards Lowell has received include the Dairy Herd Improvement Association Superior Achievement award, the Ohio Jersey Breeders' Pioneer Service award, the 1995 Kentucky Colonel, the 2000 Ohio State Fair Hall of Fame, and the Genex Mission Award.
Tom Noyes retired from Ohio State University in 2005, after over 30 years as an Extension educator in Wayne County. He was responsible for planning, conducting, and teaching dairy Extension programs throughout northeast Ohio. He also conducted field research in dairy nutrition, forage production, and farm financial management.
Noyes was a member of the OSU State Extension Dairy Team, Northeast Ohio Dairy Excel Team, OSU Extension Forage Team, and the OSU Extension Sustainable Agriculture Team.
He had extensive involvement in professional organizations throughout his career. They include the Ohio Extension Agents Association, American Dairy Science Association, National Mastitis Council, Ohio Forage and Grassland Council, American Jersey Cattle Association, Ohio Jersey Breeders Association, and the National Ayrshire and Ohio Ayrshire Breeders Associations.
Noyes currently operates a 100-cow dairy farm in Creston, Ohio. Upon request, he does consulting work in dairy management and teaches Extension dairy programs, including milking management schools and milking system trouble shooting for Amish dairy producers.
Portraits of the Dairy Science Hall of Service inductees are on display in Plumb Hall on Ohio State's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences campus in Columbus, Ohio.
The Department of Animal Sciences has been presenting the award since the 1950s.
Maurice Eastridge
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EU-Russia Civil Society Forum taking place in Tallinn
Representatives of the member organizations of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum (CSF) came together for its 5th General Assembly in Tallinn on Thursday to discuss current EU-Russia relations and its influence on the civil society sector. The opening speech was given by President Toomas Hendrik Ilves.
"In the past months, the EU-Russia relations have experienced probably the deepest crisis in history,“ Anna Sevortian, the Executive Director of the EU-Russia CSF, said. "It is a great challenge for non-governmental organizations on both sides to keep their integrity and work for public good. We believe that mutual co-operation and solidarity are crucial for the civil society to take up this challenge," she added.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves stressed that there is a strong relationship between civil society and democracy - democracy develops best in an environment where civil society has been ingrained for centuries.
"Autocratic heads of state who cannot understand that people are capable of doing something themselves, voluntary and without orders, also realize it. They are afraid of free civic initiative and tend to search for some hostile foreign puppeteer behind people's movements," Ilves said.
"For example, all kinds of conspiracy theories about [Ukraine's] Maidan have been proposed. But we remember from the days of the Estonian Singing Revolution that people came together by themselves and spontaneously to demand freedom; nobody ordered us to do it," he added.
Ilves said that Estonia was able to quickly restore democracy and voluntary civil society activity in villages and cities after the restoration of independence in 1991.
"As Estonia has become one of the most developed digital societies in the world, our civil society is also very active virtually," he said, using the example of the People's Assembly, which used collective brainstorming to generate ideas.
The President also spoke about the "Let's do it!" initiative, a massive waste clean-up action in 2008 where 30,000 people across the country helped to collect trash and garbage. The campaign which was started in Estonia, spread around the world, and this year 11 million people in 122 countries participated in the initiative.
Ilves also cited the Estonian Defense League, as an example of a civil society initiative. The Defense League is a volunteer-based military organization that currently has 13,000 members. Together with the Women's Voluntary Defense Organization, Young Eagles and Home Daughters, it has more than 21,000 volunteers.
The assembly will end Saturday.
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Elron boosts sales in Q3 2021
Elron. Source: Ken Mürk/ERR
Estonia's state-owned passenger train operator AS Eesti Liinirongid, better-known as Elron, saw its sales revenue for the third quarter of 2021 (Q3 2021) grow 6 percent on year to €4.3 million, while its quarterly net loss contracted by 4.2 percent to €1.2 million over the same period.
The company's other operating income increased by 15.5 percent to almost €7.7 million. The operating loss decreased by 1.4 percent to €169,500, according to Elron's interim report for the third quarter.
The operating costs of Elron are covered by a subsidy from the state budget and ticket revenue. In the third quarter, the subsidy for passenger services totaled €6.27 million and the subsidy for the acquisition of new rolling stock was €1.37 million. A year earlier, the figures were 5.21 million and €1.42 million, respectively.
In the third quarter, a total of almost €1.8 million boardings were recorded, 5 percent more than a year earlier. Ticket revenue for the third quarter increased by 6 percent on year to nearly €4.3 million.
The management board observed that the impact of COVID-19 was increasingly evident in the early autumn, as infection rates remained significantly higher than in 2020. Elron expects demand to continue to decline in the final quarter of the year. Passenger numbers will be impacted by the continued protraction of the period of railway repairs, which is having a significant disruptive effect on passenger services.
Besides, fears have materialized that the fight against the virus and vaccination is not keeping up the necessary pace, leading to the introduction of restrictions, which will also significantly reduce demand.
In the third quarter of 2021, 977,200 rail kilometers were served by diesel trains and 496,500 rail kilometers by electric locos.
The reliability rate of electric trains in the third quarter of the year was 99.97 percent, which slightly exceeded the set target. However, the reliability rate of diesel trains was 99.34 percent.
The dependability targets for diesel trains were not met due to diesel engines and the trains' hydraulic systems overheating in hot weather. In order to solve the problem of overheating in diesel engines, in August and September, additional diesel unit ventilation equipment was installed on all trains to improve the air exchange in diesel units.
Elron's fleet consists of 38 trains and the total length of the network is 723 km, of which 132 km are electrified.
Editor: Roberta Vaino
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Statistics: Average pension rises 6.2 percent on year to Q3 2021
Omniva sees nearly 70 percent drop in profits in Q3 2021
Stockmann increases profits in Q3 2021
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Iraq, Economy, Healthcare, Immigration Top Vote Issues
Fewer Americans mention Iraq now than earlier this year
by Joseph Carroll
PRINCETON, NJ -- When asked which issues will be most important in determining their vote for president in next year's election, Americans by a wide margin say the war in Iraq, with more than one in three mentioning the war. Other key issues include the economy, healthcare, and illegal immigration. Iraq has diminished somewhat as the top issue over the course of the year, while there has been a slight increase in the reported importance of immigration. The poll finds slight variations by partisanship and region in regard to which issues will be most important in influencing votes.
The Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2007, poll asked Americans to name, in their own words, what will be the most important issues they will take into account when deciding whom to vote for in next year's presidential election. Thirty-six percent of Americans say Iraq, with the economy (16%), healthcare (15%), and illegal immigration (10%) mentioned next most often. Between 3% and 6% of Americans mention homeland security or military defense, taxes, the honesty and integrity of the candidate, abortion, domestic issues, Social Security reform, and international affairs.
The full results to the question are in the accompanying graph.
In the three times Gallup has asked the question this year, the war in Iraq has consistently been the dominant issue in the public's eyes. But the percentage mentioning the war has gradually declined from 42% in April to 36% in the new poll. There has also been a slight uptick in illegal immigration's importance, from 5% in April and October to 10% now. Ratings of the economy and healthcare have not shown much significant change this year.
Iraq ranks as the top voting issue for Republicans, independents, and Democrats. However, Democrats (46%) are much more likely than independents (34%) or Republicans (29%) to mention Iraq. Democrats are more likely than the other party groups to mention healthcare. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to mention illegal immigration (17% to 3%), homeland security and terrorism (17% to 4%), and abortion (6% to less than 0.5%).
The three leading issues for Democrats are the war, healthcare, and the economy, while for Republicans, the leading issues are the war, illegal immigration, homeland security and terrorism, and the economy. Independents most frequently mention Iraq, the economy, healthcare, and immigration.
The war in Iraq is the top vote issue in next year's election across all four major regions of the United States. But those residing in the East and Midwest are more likely than those living in the South and West to mention the economy as a key issue in determining their vote for president. Those residing in the West mention illegal immigration more frequently than those in other parts of the country.
Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,006 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2007. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
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Just 13% of Americans say they will vote only for candidates for major offices who share their views on abortion. In a departure from recent elections, pro-life Americans are not substantially more likely than pro-choice persons to say the issue will be key for them.
Americans Concerned About Impact of Leaving Iraq
Two-thirds (65%) of Americans believe the United States has an obligation to remain in Iraq until that country is stable. More than half (57%) believe that withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq would lead to a greater number of Iraqis dying from violence than keeping troops there.
Majority Still Favors Timetable for Troop Withdrawal
Americans give the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq their most positive assessment to date. Nevertheless, basic views of the war and opinions about setting a timetable for withdrawal are essentially unchanged over the past year. The majority still favors a timetable for removing U.S. troops.
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Gallup https://news.gallup.com/poll/103132/iraq-economy-healthcare-immigration-top-vote-issues.aspx
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CWI High-Performance Workshop helps drive on-field improvement
Hayden Walsh Jr takes a catch during the fielding demonstration (Photo: CWI Media)
By Editor On Feb 25, 2021 Last updated Feb 24, 2021
Cricket West Indies (CWI) hosted a High-Performance Workshop on Tuesday (February 23) designed to improve the standard of fielding in the game around the entire region.
Coaches from all six Territorial professional franchises were involved, as well as several players now participating in the CG Insurance Super50 Cup as part of CWI’s new Coach Development Programme.
The on-field presentation was led by Trevor Penney, the current West Indies Men’s Assistant Coach, an experienced international fielding coach, who has also performed a variety of high-profile coaching roles across the IPL, CPL, and Australian domestic cricket.
Penney, alongside fellow West Indies Men’s Assistant Coach, Rayon Griffith, shared cutting edge fielding techniques already in operation to prepare the West Indies squads for the upcoming T20 Internationals, CG Insurance ODIs and Test matches against Sri Lanka.
Trevor Penney (Photo: CWI Media)
The workshop was also attended by West Indies’ legends, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, assistant coach/manager of Guyana Jaguars; Courtney Walsh, Head Coach of West Indies Women’s team; and cricket consultant, Sir Curtly Ambrose.
The workshop was organised and coordinated by Chris Brabazon, CWI’s Coach Development Manager, and conducted at the world famous Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
CWI’s new Coach Development Programme includes a variety of High-Performance Coaching Workshops that are all designed to equip regional coaches with the latest practical coaching methods and technologies required to help West Indian players perform at their peak and be successful at the highest levels of the game.
Key areas covered in this workshop included mental approach and attitude to fielding, anticipation, intercepting ground balls (including diving/sliding) and throwing techniques (including direct hits).
Trevor Penney said: “This was a great morning with our dedicated regional coaches and some of the best fielders we have. It was all about sharing information as we look to improve cricket in the West Indies and produce better equipped players. It’s all about the fundamentals – going back to the basics and fixing some of the things that need attention. It was wonderful to see the level of enthusiasm, the interaction, the awareness and skill from everyone involved.”
Chris Brabazon added: “Whenever we have access to our top specialists and coaches of Trevor Penney’s calibre, we will continue to find ways to connect them with our coaches and players across the region to enhance our West Indies Cricket Pathway. This CWI High-Performance Workshop marks the start of what will be an ongoing series of events that are designed to empower our regional coaches with the knowledge required to develop world-class West Indian cricketers.”
Courtney Walsh said: “This was a great step forward as we send the message that all the coaches in the region are working on the same page with techniques and player development as we try to do what is best for our cricket athletes. We were trying to get some basic information shared and it was very helpful. For me it was very beneficial, and I was happy to participate.”
To maximise the impact of this and future workshops, CWI will be developing the footage into shorter coaching videos to be shared with coaches and players across the region within the new CWI Coach Development Programme.
This programme is a key part of the new “Cricket First” strategy and investment plan to implement a sustainable world-class coach development system across the breadth of the West Indies Cricket Pathway. This will ultimately lead to the development of better players through better coaching. (CWI)
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Here's The Latest On Juju Smith-Schuster's Status Ahead Of Playoffs
The Pittsburgh Steelers may be getting a much-needed boost at the wide receiver position just in time for the playoffs.
Juju Smith-Schuster was designated to return from injured reserve and participated in practice on Thursday (January 13), three days ahead of the Steelers' AFC Wild Card Round matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday (January 16), according Steelers.com beat reporter Teresa Varley.
The former Pro Bowler is still listed on the Reserve/Injured List and Pittsburgh will have a 21-day window to activate him to its 53-man roster, or he will remain on the list throughout the remainder of the postseason should the team advance.
NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported Smith-Schuster was expected to miss the remainder of the 2021 NFL season as he was scheduled to undergo surgery following an MRI on October 10.
The former Pro Bowl wide receiver confirmed he underwent a surgical procedure on his injured shoulder in a post thanking fans and supporters on his verified Twitter account October 13.
Smith-Schuster delivered an emotional message to attendees at his foundation's annual Luau on October 11 amid rews of his season-ending shoulder injury.
“I sat there and cried,” Smith-Schuster said in the video shared by the Steelers' verified Twitter account on October 13. “I cried all night. I cried because I love this game so much. More than anyone could know.”
Smith-Schuster's injury occurred after he was tackled by Kareem Jackson on a 3-yard end-around run with 5:47 left in the second quarter of the Steelers' 27-19 win against the Denver Broncos on October 10.
The former Pro Bowl wide receiver was seen screaming in pain as team trainers examined his right arm and shoulder on the sideline before taking him to the locker room.
Smith-Schuster had previously experienced bruised ribs after the Steelers' September 27 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, ruling him out for the remainder of the game.
The 24-year-old has 15 receptions for 129 yards through his first five games.
Smith-Schuster opted to return to the Steelers as a free agent last March after signing a one-year, $8 million contract, praising the veteran Roethlisberger publicly for restructuring his deal to free up cap space for other moves prior to making his own decision to re-sign.
The Steelers will face the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday at 8:15 p.m. ET.
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Renée Toliver appointed to NFHCA Board of Directors
Apr 15, 2021 | 2020-2021, High School, News
BROCKPORT, N.Y. — This month, the NFHCA Scholastic Committee selected Renée Toliver to serve as their representative on the NFHCA Board of Directors.
The Scholastic Committee is one of the new committees formed by the recently adopted NFHCA Bylaws. The committee was created to serve the scholastic membership group and is made up of regional representatives.
“I am looking forward to serving as the scholastic representative on the NFHCA Board of Directors,” said Toliver. “This is a fantastic organization and I am enthusiastic about enhancing the scholastic group’s experience and creating an environment where scholastic coaches will feel comfortable and look to the NFHCA as their go-to resource.”
Toliver has been the varsity head field hockey coach at Shawnee High School in Medford, New Jersey for the past 15 years. At Shawnee she has amassed a record of 233-70-8 and earned a New Jersey Group 3 State Championship in 2007. In addition to her work as a high school coach, Toliver is also a co-owner of Xplosive Sports Academy, an entity that operates a field hockey camp, sports-performance gym, and a club team as well as a coaching seminar.
Toliver has been a member of the NFHCA for 15 years and has most recently served on the New Jersey All-Region Committee and as the New Jersey representative on the High School All-American committee. Off the pitch, Toliver is a world language teacher at Shawnee High School.
Toliver is a graduate of Rowan University and a member of the 2002 National Championship team.
Toliver will begin her three-year term as the Scholastic Representative to the board immediately.
To learn more about the NFHCA Board of Directors and their responsibilities, review our bylaws.
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#205 – 1882 5c Garfield, yellow brown
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Birth of President Garfield
The last of the “log cabin presidents,” James A. Garfield was born November 19, 1831, near Cleveland, Ohio, to impoverished farmers.
The youngest of five children, Garfield lost his father just two years later and spent much of his childhood working on the family farm to support his near-penniless mother.
As a student at the Geauga Academy, Garfield worked as a carpenter and part-time teacher, discovering his love for learning and teaching. Beginning in 1851, Garfield studied at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later renamed Hiram College), while working as a school janitor. While there, he took great interest in the Greek and Latin languages. Garfield graduated with honors in 1856 and went on to teach classical languages, English, history, geology, and math at his former school, the Eclectic Institute. The following year, he began a four-year stint as president of the school but grew tired of the faculty arguing.
In 1859, Garfield became the Ohio State Senate’s youngest member. During his service in the legislature, Garfield was key in the formation of a bill creating Ohio’s first geological survey measuring mineral sources. He studied law on his own and passed the Ohio bar exam in 1861.
As the slavery debate led to the Civil War, Garfield, an abolitionist, strongly opposed its spreading into the Western territories. By mid-August 1861, he organized the 42nd Ohio Infantry. One of his first tasks was to drive Confederate forces from eastern Kentucky. This success brought him early notoriety and promotion to brigadier general just two days later. Garfield later served with distinction at the Battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh, Corinth, and Chickamauga.
Garfield was elected to the House of Representatives in November 1862, even though he hadn’t campaigned for the position. He was reluctant to take the role at first but believed his abilities would be put to better use there than on the battlefield. Within a year he resigned his position in the Army and took his seat in the House of Representatives.
While Garfield had previously campaigned for President Lincoln, he didn’t particularly like him. However, when riots broke out on New York’s Wall Street over the news of Lincoln’s assassination, Garfield delivered an eloquent speech that calmed the crowd. This is often considered one of the most notable moments of his career.
Garfield spent a total of nine terms in the House of Representatives. Gaining a detailed knowledge of financial matters, Garfield served on several important committees and held multiple positions including chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee, the Appropriations Committee, and the Military Affairs Committee. As a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, he supported hard money policies, in contradiction with his district. He refused to support any legislation that would increase the money supply by issuing paper currency without the proper amount of gold to back it up.
At the Republican Convention of 1880, three men were in the running for the presidential nomination – former President Ulysses S. Grant, Maine Senator James G. Blaine, and Treasury Secretary John Sherman, who Garfield supported. The convention was deadlocked through the first 33 rounds of voting. In that time, Garfield had received a couple of courtesy votes each round. On the next ballot he received 16, then 50 on the following vote. Although he had been elected to the US Senate prior to the convention, by days end, Garfield secured the Republican presidential nomination with 399 votes to Grant’s 306.
With Chester A. Arthur as his running mate, Garfield won one of the closest elections on record, by just 7,368 votes. This made him the only person to be elected to the presidency directly from the House of Representatives. Also for a short time, he was a sitting Representative, Senator-elect, and President-elect. The following spring, Garfield’s mother was the first president’s mother to attend her son’s inauguration. When his mother was living in the White House throughout his term, President Garfield personally carried her up the stairs.
Much of Garfield’s time in office was spent appointing the collectorship of the Port of New York. The position was significant because the New York port was the busiest in the country, collecting more revenue than all other US ports combined. He selected William H. Robertson, temporary president of the Senate, a move that outraged some who felt their party would be rewarded with the position. Eventually, they resigned, making Garfield the undisputed party leader.
Calling on his financial expertise from his time in the House, Garfield had the Treasury refinance government bonds, reducing the rate from six to three-and-a-half percent interest. This saved the government $10 million per year, which was four percent of the budget at that time.
The only order Garfield was able to carry out during his administration was giving government workers May 30, 1881, off from work, so they could decorate the graves of those who had died in the Civil War. This was an early predecessor to Memorial Day. President Garfield also called for civil service reform. Although Garfield did not live to see it, his successor, Chester Arthur, passed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act that required government jobs be awarded on merit.
Deeply concerned with the rights of African Americans, President Garfield pushed for universal education, funded by the federal government, to school the 70% illiterate African American population. Despite his efforts, the president failed to get the support of Congress and nothing was done in this matter for several years.
Then, on July 2, 1881, President Garfield was preparing to take his sons to his former school, Williams College. As they entered Washington’s Baltimore and Potomac train station at 9:20 a.m., the president was shot in the back by a .44 British Bulldog revolver. The shooter was Charles J. Guiteau, who specifically selected the gun because he thought it would look impressive in a museum. Guiteau was well known around the capitol as an emotionally disturbed man. He shot the president because he felt slighted when Garfield refused to appoint him as US consul to Paris. The assassin had stalked the president for weeks beforehand.
Doctors were never able to find the bullet, which ended up being lodged in Garfield’s pancreas. More than two months later, on September 19, President Garfield died of blood poisoning and complications from the shooting. On that day, Guiteau wrote a letter to Garfield’s successor, Chester A. Arthur, saying, “My inspiration is a godsend to you and I presume that you appreciate it… Never think of Garfield’s removal as murder. It was an act of God, resulting from a political necessity for which he was responsible.”
The following year, jurors only deliberated for an hour before returning a guilty verdict. Guiteau was hanged on June 30, 1882, fully believing he had done God’s work.
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Migrant suicide is lost in translation
“Support can make a difference”, says suicide prevention expert Gerry Georgatos
29 April 2016 1:42pm
The statistics are harrowing: more than one in four of Australia’s suicides are of people born overseas. The Australian Bureau of Statistics recorded nearly 3,000 cases of suicide in 2014, an increase of around 300 on the preceding annual toll. Among them around 800 are of migrants. According to the ABS, the rates are higher among Australian residents born in New Zealand, as well as among females coming from Eastern Europe.
“Many migrants face xenophobia, misoxeny and relentless racism. It varies depending on the migrant group, ” says Gerry Georgatos, offering valuable insight. The activist and suicide prevention researcher, who works for the Institute of Social Justice and Human Rights, issued a statement, addressing the matter and calling for action: “The high suicide rates of many migrant cultures are lost and little is done to respond the unique needs in suicide prevention for Australians who were born overseas, for newly arrived migrants, for the children of migrants”, he says.
Georgatos warned that collectivised medians, a focus on overall national averages risks masking a true picture of migrant groups with elevated risks.
“We need more data disaggregation in order to ensure tailored support and awareness-raising. If we do not disaggregate we risk discrimination, we risk making people invisible, elevated risk groups become invisible. We must not leave anyone behind. The disaggregation will allow us to reach those most vulnerable with tailored support”, he adds.
Georgatos said that the underlying factors spiking high rates of mental health issues, depression and suicidal ideation vary from one migrant group to another. “There are myriad hurdles and barriers for some migrant groups in the first few years in Australia as opposed to other migrant groups. Some migrant groups are isolated even within a multicultural urban mass. Their self-worth, self-esteem and sense of being is corralled by the sense of isolation; some feel a sense of hopelessness soon after their arrival. Then there is fundamental among many migrant groups of the excessive burden to deliver on expectations, and many feel a sense of exhaustion, others a sense of failure. The pressures are psychosocially and pyschologically significant and impact the family dynamic, the children. Many of the children of migrants are also levied a suite of expectations, pressure to succeed at levels that across the board non-migrant children do not endure. The quotient of happiness becomes secondary or is distorted and bent into an intertwining with educational, career and material outcomes, expectations.”
“Migrating to a new country can be acutely traumatic, for many it can be chronically traumatic, and the situational trauma of relocation needs tailored support and this can only be delivered on the back of awareness raising of the issues. Through awareness raising new meanings dawn, there is an improved contextualising of the evaluation of life experiences. We must do everything possible to ensure that situational trauma does not degenerate into a constancy of traumas – multiple, composite – and as we know for many becomes aggressive complex trauma.”
Georgatos also warns that we must disaggregate not only to country of origin but to the means of migration and therefore include refugees who he believes have even more elevated risks to depression and suicidal ideation because “of the damaging experience they endured in immigration detention, some for years.”
“Furthermore, racism needs to be better understood by everyone – by its victims and by the perpetrators. Racism gets discussed at the surface level but a deep examination is yet to be had. We have soaked up the racism, the prejudices and misoxeny of the Cronulla riots, we continue to soak up the hatefulness of Islamophobia, the hate of the cultural norms of others, of perceptions of how different peoples appear. Having to soak up all this and then be expected to internalise the silences is toxic and this not only fractures society but dangerously isolates people.”
“One in three of Australia’s homeless are people who have been born overseas. If we want a future where where we leave no-one behind we need more research and public discussions about the now, so we do not create for generations unborn underclasses of marginalised migrants or of their children coupled with multiple traumas, psychological damage.”
In Australia, suicide is the leading cause of death for males and females aged between 15 years and 45 years and the need for a comprehensive system of support and prevention is crucial. Gerry Georgatos is emphatic about the difference support can make: “People need people”, he says. “We must never allow any cultural group to become invisible”.
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Living Large in Carson City: Of the Tea Party’s Invasion Wet Dreams and Children Edition
Posted on July 14, 2014 July 14, 2014 by technoscribe50: Gary Brady-Herndon
More bizarre statements from the wacko that defines bizarre in Texas (if not in national) politics. Louie Gohmert is obviously the best politician that the Texas Tea Party’s money can buy because sane people wouldn’t vote for a wacko like this. Well, money and favorable gerrymandering of his district had something to do with it. How else could someone as dumb as dirt and proud of it ever be elected to any political office? Although, it is hard for me to conceive that the Texans I know from my past would have any part of this loser’s political cartoon antics.
Gohmert’s latest shenanigans takes advantage of the current Texas border crisis that has immigrant children being held like animals in cages and denied, for some, justifiable asylum from the horrors of their homelands. This on the heels of Governor Rick Perry strutting about and playing presidential candidate this past week and demanding President Obama deploy National Guard troops along the Rio Grande to help secure the border. What has become of my once beloved Texas that it is now inhabited by weirdoes, gun nuts, gay bashers, and evangelical spouters of hate and disharmony who have become the rule not the exception?
The latest Gohmert brouhaha found voice in his speech from the floor of the House of Representatives last Friday. The live recorded feed is on CSPAN with Louie’s part beginning somewhere around the 3:38:00 mark of a four hour taping. Do yourself a favor and don’t go there. It begins with a near incoherent rambling intro of what the term invasion means, complete with definitions and explanation by Louie in a brain numbing monotone that is only slightly less than excruciating. Better to go to the UK Progressive Magazine’s website for the highlights in an article titled Texas Hospitality? (Yes, Louie, the UK finds your antics laughable and incomprehensible. Texas used to deserve better than this).
In the article the magazine’s staff lays out the gist of Louie’s demands, and his thoughts on what needs to be done to solve the humanitarian crisis that the children find themselves in:
“Criticizing President Obama’s request for Congress to provide $3.7 billion in emergency funds to process the deportation proceedings of more than 52,000 children, mostly fleeing violence in Central America, Gohmert asked Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) to “use whatever means” like troops, ships of war, or taxes to “stop the invasion.”
On the surface of this statement, Louie appears to be suggesting “troops, ships of war, or taxes (?)” should be used against these hapless children in an effort to ensure Louie’s borders are free from the evil scourge that they bring to our shores. The fact that they are unarmed, penniless and don’t seem to be in possession of any maritime assets is lost on the Congressman from Texas.
After poopooing the $3.7 billion that Obama called for from Congress, Louie’s brilliant idea is priceless. From the article:
“That’s why I’m hoping that my governor will utilize Article 1, Section 10, that allows a state that is being invaded — in our case more than twice as many just in recent months, more than twice as many than invaded France on D-Day with a doubling of that coming en route, on their way here now under Article 1, Section 10, the state of Texas would appear to have the right, not only to use whatever means, whether it’s troops, even using ships of war, even exacting a tax on interstate commerce that wouldn’t normally be allowed to have or utilize, they’d be entitled in order to pay to stop the invasion.”
Louie goes on to hedge his bet in a way, but at the same time, up the ante a bit:
“Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution provides that “[n]o state shall, without the consent of Congress . . . engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.”
Louie doesn’t understand that “invasion”, as it is used here, involves armed conflict, death, destruction, widespread chaos and an overall attempt to bring down the government. This situation, however, is about children fleeing hopeless situations at home that would force a mother and father to consider sending their children on a sordidly dangerous journey led by men with the scruples of bandits who care little if anything about the well-being of their children.
But wait, he wasn’t finished:
“Gohmert also suggested that the state of Texas should send National Guard to the border to secure the border, citing the time that President Woodrow Wilson sent General Pershing into Mexico to pursue Pancho Villa who had killed Americans.”
Some points to consider Louie: This isn’t the Mexican Revolution. Most of these children are from Central America (not Mexico. It’s a geography thing). The children are not Mexican revolutionaries, armed and dangerous, but refugees. And finally, while you seem to be unable to comprehend that most people see your blustering for what it is, an attempt of an inept, Tea Party sycophant whose only goal is to call attention to himself, it would be better if you simply got up on the floor of the House of Representatives and started shouting, “Hey look over here. Look at me. It’s Louie!” At least then, the UK would only be laughing at you, and not the problems Texas faces with this unfortunate humanitarian crisis.
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Welcome to Bridgeport
Built in 1823, Fayerweather Island Light marks the entrance to Black Rock Harbor.
Many boaters think of Bridgeport as an industrial seaport fallen on hard times. However, the city has seen many changes in recent years—most for the better—and now has much to offer boaters. Bridgeport is located 50 miles from New York City and 11 miles from Port Jefferson, on Long Island. It can be described as “exciting,” “epicurean,” “historic” and “quirky”. The “quirky” part owes much to P. T. Barnum, who based his famous circus here, and visitors can still feel his impact on the city. The man who gave us “The Greatest Show on Earth” was also Bridgeport’s most illustrious mayor (he served in 1875 for a year). Downtown, the Barnum Museum brings circus freaks and school groups together to peruse exhibits about this master of promotion and his city.
The 2 1/2-mile-long Seaside Park, covered with sunbathers during the summer, was a gift from Barnum to the City of Bridgeport. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, the man who shaped New York City’s Central Park. A few miles from the waterfront, Beardsley Zoo is purported to house a few descendants of Barnum’s original menagerie. He was known to exercise his exotic animals on the city’s leafy boulevards.
Bridgeport Harbor still bears a decidedly industrial look. The harbormaster’s dock is adjacent to the high-speed-ferry landing, where crowds gather for the 90-minute ride across the Sound to Port Jefferson. Directly behind that (and sharing a parking lot) is the ballpark that was custom built for the local farm team, the Bridgeport Bluefish, and the gleaming Arena at Harbor Yard, a local venue for big-name performers. The ferry, ballpark and arena draw most of the visitors to Bridgeport, but there is much more to appreciate here, particularly if you’re a boater.
Across from the ferry dock, the imposing Derecktor Shipyard builds and repairs massive ships. Opened in 2001, Derecktor’s has built some of the world’s best-known high-speed ferries, tugs and fireboats, as well as the longest catamaran (145 feet) ever manufactured.
Next to Derecktor’s lies the vacant remains of the Turbana Corporation, through which all bananas coming into the Northeast used to funnel. The land, which is for sale, is now owned by a group of longshoremen and best suited for an apocalyptic movie set. Abutting this property is the cute, solitary Dolphin’s Cove Restaurant and Marina. Owned by Teresa Pinheiro, Jack Matias and their three grown sons, Dolphin’s Cove flies the flags of 30 nations, representing a diverse clientele, many of whom make their way across Long Island Sound by boat to dock and dine here.
Bridgeport Fishing Information
Traveling east you’ll encounter Johnsons Creek, a well-protected inlet where a field of petroleum tanks faces the Miamoque and East End Yacht Clubs. This is where most recreational boaters who hail from Bridgeport Harbor keep their boats.
Just outside Johnsons Creek sits a scruffy little island called Pleasure Beach, which is owned by the town of Stratford. Once home to a summer resort colony and an amusement park, the island is now closed to the public. Shells of summer cottages, bathing pavilions and a gazebo that never opened share the terrain with overgrown vegetation. Several of the abandoned houses have been burned by arsonists. Because endangered piping plovers nest here, plans are afoot to sell the property to the Fish and Wildlife Commission, although nothing has been finalized. Recently, a temporary road was built down the stretch of beach to the cottages so that debris could be removed from the island. For now, boaters are not allowed access to this unresolved patch of land languishing in the shadows of the venerable coal-fired powerplant, United Illuminating.
The plant occupies a significant wedge of the western bank of Bridgeport Harbor, with its own lighthouse (for sale) and bustling coal-offloading docks. West of the plant is the 2 1/2-mile Seaside Park, a 325-acre gift from P. T. Barnum to the city he loved. Several Victorian-era bathhouses and pavilions are still in use, but only a few have been rehabbed and most inexplicably remain closed. The park extends from the mouth of Bridgeport Harbor to the mouth of Black Rock Harbor at its western end, where a former garbage dump, “Landfill Hill,” now covered with trees and shrubs, acts as a windbreak for a scenic cove.
After gazing upon Landfill Hill, the picturesque view of Black Rock Harbor may catch you off guard. The Black Rock Harbor mooring field, which contains boats of every stripe, lies between a foliage-rich promontory and a tony shorefront neighborhood. At the head of the harbor is the Captain’s Cove Seaport, home to a full-service marina, as well as shops, museums and restaurants, all decorated in Caribbean hues. The Cove Restaurant, which according to one aficionado has the “best fish and chips this side of London,” sports a second-floor bar built like a tugboat and beside it, a huge model of the Titanic suspended from the ceiling. With a couple of small museums, a harbor cruise boat, a charter-fishing boat and a full-service marina, it would be tempting to stay put here for a weekend. But then you’d be missing out on Bridgeport’s many other marvels, both ashore and on the water.
Sailboats swing on their moorings in Black Rock Harbor. Photo by Caryn B. Davis
Chart: NOAA 12369
Black Rock Harbor Chart
Bridgeport is approximately 52 nautical miles northeast of New York City and 25 nautical miles southwest of New Haven, Connecticut. The port consists of Bridgeport Harbor (with a channel 400 feet wide and 35 feet deep) and Black Rock Harbor (depth 18 feet).
Dockage, Moorings & Service:
Captain’s Cove Seaport (203-335-1433): Located in Black Rock Harbor, Captain’s Cove is the preeminent full-service marina for recreational boaters in the area, with 30 slips designated for transients. Live music, restaurants and shops are located within the complex.Cedar Marina (203-335-6262): Also in Black Rock Harbor, Cedar Marina maintains a total of 175 slips and will provide space for transients when seasonal boaters are traveling.
Dolphin’s Cove Marina (203-335-3301): Located in Bridgeport Harbor, Dolphin’s Cove allows free tie-up for a few hours or overnight for $1 per foot. The marina has an onsite restaurant and fresh seafood market.
East End Yacht Club (203-366-3330): Private club in Bridgeport Harbor offering reciprocity.
Pequonnock Yacht Club (203-773-9460): Private club in Bridgeport Harbor offering reciprocity.
Anchorages:
In Black Rock Harbor, boaters can anchor anywhere there is room on either side of the main channel between RN “8” and GC “11”In Bridgeport Harbor, boaters can anchor just south/southwest of RN “2” at the entrance to Johnsons Creek. There is another small anchorage inside Johnson’s Creek southwest of RN “8”, if you can find room.
Launch Ramps:
Bridgeport Harbor: Newfield Ave., on-street parking and adjacent float. No fee.Black Rock Harbor: There is a ramp at the end of Brewster Street (on-street parking, no fee) and another at the western end of Seaside Park (large lot, fee required).
Harbormaster:
Things to Do and See:
The Barnum Museum (203-331-1104): Admission $7 for adults; $4 for kids. The museum is Bridgeport’s most popular tourist attraction, and represents the architectural flights of fancy prevalent during the late 1800s. This multi-architectural-style brownstone and terracotta three-story building is devoted to the history of the man and the city of Bridgeport. The main lobby showcases “Baby Bridgeport,” a 700-pound elephant, the second ever to be born in captivity, preserved in all its taxidermal glory. Galleries are filled with photos and reviews of Barnum’s biggest stars—Tom Thumb, Jenny “Swedish Nightingale” Lind and Jumbo the Elephant, along with other curiosities. On the third floor is a diorama of Barnum and Bailey’s 3-ring circus.Beardsley Zoo (203-394-6565) $9 for adults and $7 for kids. Built on the grounds of the park where Barnum exercised his elephants, camels and zebras, Connecticut’s only zoological garden now houses more than 1,000 different animals as well as a unique “endangered species” carousel.
Discovery Museum (203-372-3521): Admission $8.50 for adults; $7 for kids. A bit frayed around the edges, this rainy-day option still carries a few thrills for grade-school kids.
Seaside Park: A gift to the City of Bridgeport from P. T. Barnum. Designed by Central Park architect Frederick Law Olmstead, this 2 ½-mile beach is a great place to picnic.
Ballpark at Harbor Yard (203-345-4800): Home to the Bridgeport Bluefish farm team.
Arena at Harbor Yard (203-345-2300): Books blockbuster events all year long.
The Downtown Cabaret Theater (203-576-1636): Offers well-known musicals and family fare.
Ralph and Rich’s (203-366-3597): An Italian bistro in the financial district.
Roberto’s (203-368-6599): Dine on soft bread sticks and delicious pasta dishes in a soaring limestone room.
Two Boots (203-331-1377): Go-to place for pizza.
Dolphin’s Cove (203-335-3301): Offers direct views onto Bridgeport Harbor. The food is right-off-the-boat fresh and the prices seem to have been frozen in the 1960s.
Captain’s Cove Seaport (203-335-1433): Located on Black Rock Harbor, the Seaport’s restaurant has, according to one out-of-town fan, “the most delectable fish-and-chips this side of England.”
Take Time Café (203-335-7255): Sandwich shop sporting twig rocking chairs, rustic tables and vibrant murals.
Getting Around:
Town Taxi (203-366-8534)
Yellow Cab (203-334-2121)
Ace Cab (203-334-6161)
Bridgeport Regional Business Council (203-335-3800)
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HBJ: New hope for economic growth in the new year
As originally appearing in The Hartford Business Journal
By James T. Brett
With the Biden administration and 117th Congress now underway, there is much hope for a new era of unity — both in Washington, D.C., and across the nation.
Our country has faced unprecedented challenges over the past year. We have grappled with a devastating public health crisis and a resulting economic crisis. We have encountered political turmoil. And we have awakened to an overdue call for social change.
The new administration and Congress must tackle a number of challenges and will surely be focused on advancing policies that support recovery and economic growth.
The New England Council believes there are several key issues where federal action could reap tremendous benefits for New England:
Additional COVID relief — The COVID relief packages Congress passed last year have provided critical support to our nation, economy, and communities as we continue on the path to recovery.
There is no question, though, that additional relief is needed — including additional unemployment assistance, stimulus payments for struggling Americans, state and local aid, or support for the businesses most severely affected by the pandemic. Fortunately, President Biden has already put forth a relief package and has indicated that an additional economic stimulus package is forthcoming.
We urge Congress to take quick action on the President’s relief plan.
Infrastructure — We all know far too well that our region’s transportation infrastructure is in need of modernization. But the pandemic has also exposed — and in some cases exacerbated — other vulnerabilities, ranging from disparities in broadband access to outdated school buildings with inadequate ventilation. At the same time, we know that infrastructure investment will create new jobs, which is all the more important as so many have found themselves unemployed over the past year.
Leaders on both sides of the aisle have historically supported investment in infrastructure, but have struggled to find common ground on the specifics. It is expected that the Biden administration will soon put forth a proposal, and the Council is hopeful that our leaders in Congress will come together to make much-needed investments in our nation’s infrastructure.
Clean energy — President Biden has made clear that combating climate change will be a top priority. The new president’s team will undoubtedly enhance our nation’s environmental regulations while also promoting greater investment in renewable energy.
The New England region — home of the nation’s first offshore wind farm, with several others in development — is already a leader in the renewable energy industry. We look forward to new federal policies that will encourage continued growth in this sector, which will not only support climate change goals, but also create jobs and spur economic expansion.
The good news for New England? Our region is incredibly well-represented on Capitol Hill as the New England delegation continues to gain more and more clout in Congress. In the House, Massachusetts Reps. Richie Neal and Jim McGovern will continue to chair two of the most influential House committees: the Ways & Means Committee and the Rules Committee, respectively. Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro was recently elevated to chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. And Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark was recently elected assistant speaker, making her the fourth most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives.
With Democrats taking control in the Senate, three of the region’s 12 senators will become committee chairs.
Our region has incredible leaders in prime positions to advocate for New England’s priorities. Of course, with narrow margins in both the House and Senate, bipartisan collaboration will be vital to advance these important policies.
I am confident that our leaders in Washington will find a way to bridge the divide and resolve their differences through respectful debate and compromise.
James T. Brett is the president and CEO of The New England Council, a regional alliance of businesses, nonprofits, and health and educational institutions dedicated to supporting economic growth in New England.
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Zoning Board of Appeals Mtg. – Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 5:00 PM No. Syr. Comm. Ctr., 700 South Bay Rd., North Syracuse
Published April 28, 2021 | By Dianne Kufel
Please Take Notice that as per the Mayor of the Village of North Syracuse, in response to the continuing emergency circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, shall conduct its Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting on May 6th, 2021 commencing at 5:00 PM and to be held at the North Syracuse Community Ctr. at the corner of South Bay Road and Centerville Place unless otherwise specified. The public shall not be allowed to attend the meeting due to COVID guidelines. Persons wishing to view the meeting shall be allowed to do so by viewing of the Village Facebook page. Further, the public is encouraged to offer its comments in writing to the Village by email communications to codes@northsyracuseny.org no later than May 5th, 2021 by 10:00 AM. All comments will be entered into the record and distributed to all board members. Fax communications will also be accepted and may be sent to Brian Johnstone at (315) 458-5079. Mailed comments should be sent to: Village of North Syracuse Codes Dept., 600 South Bay Road, North Syracuse, NY 13212. All meetings of the Village will be recorded and later transcribed. The transcriptions will be made available online upon review and completion as soon as possible.
5:00 PM Call to Order
Approval of Minutes of 3/04/2021
Gregory Kolbas
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Area Variance (Height)
Bruce Thompson
100 Fairfield Dr.
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New York City Principals are Livin’ Large (and Often Hopelessly Young and Inexperienced): Pay Per Pupil Has Risen 67%, After Adjusting for Inflation; But Only Affirmative Action Cases and Grads from Overpriced Private Universities (OPUs) Need Apply
Principal Iris Blige conspired to defame teachers she didn’t like, in order to destroy their careers at her school, Fordham High School of the Arts . Blige is a notorious graduate of Mayor Bloomberg’s Leadership Academy for future school principals. This pic is not from the New York Times story below.
This picture, of inexperienced, hopelessly young school principal Allison Gaines Pell, then 34, another Leadership Academy/OPU product, is from the New York Times story
[Previously, at WEJB/NSU:
“NYC Principal from Hell Iris Blige was Caught Conspiring to Defame and Destroy a Dozen Teachers, but Instead of Firing Her, Bloomberg Just Fined Her.”]
Some youngsters are given schools to run while only in their twenties
Posted by Nicholas Stix
CONTROLLING INTERESTS
Principals Younger and Freer, but Raise Doubts in the Schools
By Elissa Gootman and Robert Gebeloff
They are younger than their predecessors, have less experience in the classroom and are, most often, responsible for far fewer students. But their salaries are higher and they have greater freedom over hiring and budgets, handling a host of responsibilities formerly shouldered by their supervisors.
Among the most striking transformations of New York’s public school system since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took charge in 2002 is that of the role of principal, once the province of middle-aged teachers promoted through the ranks, now often filled by young graduates of top colleges.
“I wanted to change the old system,” Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said in an interview. “New leadership is a powerful way to do that.”
One of Mr. Klein’s proudest achievements is luring promising candidates to the toughest schools by providing more autonomy in exchange for accountability through test scores and other data.
But an analysis by The New York Times of the city’s signature report-card system shows that schools run by graduates of the celebrated New York City Leadership Academy — which the mayor created and helped raise more than $80 million for — have not done as well as those led by experienced principals or new principals who came through traditional routes.
A separate Times analysis shows that since 2002, opening hundreds of new schools and raising salaries have swelled the principals’ payroll 43 percent after adjusting for inflation. The average salary among the current 1,500 school leaders tops $133,000, 10 percent higher than their 1,200 counterparts in 2002 in inflation-adjusted dollars, even as the median household income nationally has risen only marginally.
An average of 649 students are under each principal’s purview, compared with 879 six years ago; pay per pupil, then, has jumped to $205 from $138 in 2008 dollars.
Nearly 80 percent of the city’s principals were not on the job in 2001; Chad A. Altman, the 28-year-old head of a Bronx elementary school, was still studying public policy at Carnegie Mellon University when the mayor was petitioning Albany for school control.
Indeed, 22 percent of today’s principals are under 40, compared with 6 percent in 2002; about 20 percent of them have less than five years of teaching experience, double the percentage in 2002.
Mr. Klein’s cultivation of a new breed of school leadership is being watched around the country, where many cities are grappling with waves of principal retirements even as more is being asked of public schools.
As New York State lawmakers consider whether to renew the 2002 mayoral control law, which expires June 30, one proposal on the table would revive the district superintendents, now largely powerless, to more closely supervise and support principals.
For all of New York’s recent focus and investment in school leadership, more than a quarter of teachers said in city surveys last spring that they did not trust their principals or consider them effective managers, and more than a third of those leaving the system cited the quality of school leadership as among the main reasons. “Perceptions of principal leadership skills are drivers of attrition,” an internal report concluded.
Teacher turnover has been higher at schools run by Leadership Academy principals — over the summer of 2007, nearly a quarter of these principals lost at least a third of their teachers, compared with 9 percent of other principals — though some see that as evidence the new leaders are shaking things up. Iris Blige, a graduate of the first class of the Leadership Academy, has seen at least eight assistant principals and dozens of teachers leave the Fordham High School of the Arts since she took over in 2004; she was the subject of an angry protest in March.
In interviews with three dozen principals, former principals and education experts, many said the newfound ability to select faculty was invaluable, but painted a portrait of a job that has grown complex and unwieldy.
“You’re a teacher, you’re Judge Judy, you’re a mother, you’re a father, you’re a pastor, you’re a therapist, you’re a nurse, you’re a social worker,” said Maxine Nodel, principal since 2003 of the 481-student Millennium Art Academy in the Bronx. “You’re a curriculum planner, you’re a data gatherer, you’re a budget scheduler, you’re a vision spreader.”
Ms. Nodel, who has taught math, English, science, art and chess over 18 years, earned two A’s in a row under the city’s new school report card system. But, she said, “This is the most exhausted I’ve ever been.”
Brilliance and Mediocrity
Allison Gaines Pell could be the personification of the new principalship. A graduate of Brown University with a master’s degree in education from Harvard, she taught for three years at St. Ann’s, a Brooklyn private school, and two in Syracuse, and worked for educational nonprofit agencies before being fast-tracked to the principal’s office through the Leadership Academy in 2005.
At 34, she is one of 132 current school leaders under age 35, up from 26 in 2002, and one of 237 who have worked in the district less than a decade, up from 54 in 2002. She earns $127,000 a year running a middle school of 278.
Over a few days at her Urban Assembly Academy of Arts and Letters in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, this spring, Ms. Gaines Pell gave out high school acceptance letters, videotaped two lessons, revised the laptop security policy, joined a meeting between the school nurse and a student with a hurt hip, and experienced the joys and headaches of being in charge of her own budget.
Headache: a rumor that when students did not pay for lunch, she would have to make up the shortfall (she has yet to determine whether this is true). Joy: a new computer program — which she could buy without approval from on high — designed to help teachers collaborate online.
“That’s hot!” Ms. Gaines Pell exclaimed to her assistant principal, John O’Reilly. “That’s really hot,” he seconded.
But while Ms. Gaines Pell’s school earned an A from the city this fall, The Times’s analysis shows that Leadership Academy graduates were less than half as likely to get A’s as other principals, and almost twice as likely to earn C’s or worse. Among elementary and middle-school principals on the job less than three years, Academy graduates were about a third as likely to get A’s as those who did not attend the program.
While Academy graduates do tend to be placed in some of the city’s lowest-achieving schools, the report-card system has built-in controls to account for that, emphasizing progress over performance and comparing schools with similar demographics. Still, Sandra J. Stein, chief executive of the Leadership Academy, said the cards — the city’s primary accountability measure — are not a fair gauge of her graduates because, as she put it, “it takes time to reverse a downward trend.”
After five years running primarily on private donations, the Leadership Academy won a city contract last June for up to $10 million a year. Its centerpiece is the Aspiring Principals Program, a 14-month paid boot camp that has graduated 336 people since 2003, 227 of whom are now principals — 15 percent of the total.
One Leadership Academy alumnus was removed from his post this month, pending Education Department investigations, after a public screaming match with the school’s parent coordinator; more than 250 parents had signed a letter citing a “litany of problems” including “increased staff turnover, parent dissatisfaction and general turmoil.” Another was removed upon his arrest in February for driving while intoxicated and fleeing the scene of an accident.
The first independent analysis of the academy’s effectiveness, done at New York University, is due in June. “I think our batting average is quite good,” Mr. Klein said. “Could it improve? I’m sure it could improve.”
Pulling Their Own Strings
Andrew M. L. Turay vividly remembers, back when he was principal of the Bronx’s mammoth Evander Childs High School in 2001, the day an assistant principal who had struggled at another school walked into his office and announced she would now be working with him: superintendent’s orders. “You were the figurehead as a principal, but the actual power was in the superintendent’s office,” he said. “They were pulling the strings.”
Now, as principal of Peace and Diversity Academy, a small high school in the Bronx that he founded in 2004, Mr. Turay not only picks his own staff but decides how to train them. Still cringing over the time he returned to Evander from a required daylong monthly session to find that a student had assaulted a staff member in the cafeteria, Mr. Turay can — and does — choose to skip virtually all meetings outside the office.
Where he oversaw more than 3,000 students at Evander, Mr. Turay now has 315, and makes it his business to know who was just absent for five days (the girl with multiple face piercings), and who is struggling with sexual identity (18 students are openly gay). There is no superintendent regularly visiting; it is up to Mr. Turay to call his network leader — his primary support person — on her cellphone when he needs help. Someone sent by the Education Department descends on the school for a few days at least once every three years and then submits a “quality review” on its shortcomings and successes, but Mr. Turay is judged, in large part, by a thick stack of documents.
Compliance checklists, on items including vision-testing and fire drills. School report cards (he got a B). Parent and teacher surveys. A review of how well he has met his own goals.
Mr. Turay, who is 57 and has worked in city schools for 24 years, prefers the new system, or at least the small-school environment. “I didn’t know kids, I didn’t know parents,” he said of his days at Evander Childs. “I couldn’t tell if I helped anyone, really.”
But the independence that has helped Mr. Turay flourish has tripped up others.
Maria Penaherrera — who started as a substitute teacher 20 years ago and worked her way up to the principal’s office — used her financial freedom to hire four assistant principals at the 900-student Public School 114 in Canarsie, and ran up $150,000 in debt. Then she eliminated three of the positions only to have the fourth assistant principal quit. That left a custodian to take charge in February when a carbon monoxide alarm went off while Ms. Penaherrera was out. She has since been reassigned to a central office post while the Education Department investigates, and did not respond to requests for comment.
Peter McNally, executive vice president of the principals’ union — which has generally supported the mayor’s reforms — said the biggest complaint from members was “that they spend more time looking at the data than in classrooms observing and supporting instruction.” Indeed, many had deep reservations about a system in which, as one principal put it, “my report card is my boss.”
“If teaching and learning become about credits and grades, it’s not about learning,” said Jill Herman, who retired last year after three decades as a teacher, principal and network leader.
Rookies Do Worse
Philip Weinberg walks the halls of Brooklyn’s 1,250-student High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology like the beloved mayor of a close-knit town, popping into a young math teacher’s classroom, ushering teenagers off the sidewalk after dismissal in a manner both firm and warm. “He’s cool with all the students,” said Anthony Mesa, a senior who took the liberty of adjusting Mr. Weinberg’s scarf.
Mr. Weinberg, 49, started teaching English at the school, in Bay Ridge, in 1986 and became its principal in 2001; several of his staff members are former students. He is one of 255 principals — 17 percent of the total — in the same post as before mayoral control. (The number of rookie principals soared to 20 percent in 2003 and 25 percent in 2004, but has settled down to 12 percent over the past two years.)
The Times’s analysis shows that experience counts — at least on school report cards. Forty-three percent of principals with at least a decade at their schools received A’s last fall (including Mr. Weinberg), compared with 30 percent of those who had been at their schools up to two years.
“The longer you know a story, the better you know the story,” Mr. Weinberg said. “I would hate to have been judged on my first three years as principal.”
In an interview, Mr. Klein said he would like to see good principals stay 8 to 10 years; 5 out of 6, though, have not been around that long. And the first two principals the chancellor cited as models were Shimon Waronker, 40, a Leadership Academy graduate who is on leave from the school system to attend a graduate program at Harvard, and Marc S. Sternberg, 36, a Princeton and Harvard Business School graduate who plans to leave the high school he founded in 2004, Bronx Lab, this summer.
Elana Karopkin left Brooklyn’s Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice last summer, at 32, for a charter school group, saying she was physically and emotionally “exhausted” from what she described as a “Herculean task.”
And Michelle Harring, 62, retired last year after nearly a decade as principal of the Earth School on the Lower East Side, complaining of too much time spent “belaboring the testing statistics” or on the computer as well as bureaucratic reshufflings that left her scrambling to figure out whom to call for what.
“The job had many more pressures coming from lots of different directions, that I often felt took away from my time as a person who supported both teachers and the children in the classroom,” she explained. “I think of C.E.O.’s as people for whom the bottom lines are numbers and profit lines. I don’t think principals should be C.E.O.’s.”
Amy Ellen Schwartz, director of the Institute for Education and Social Policy at New York University, who is heading the Leadership Academy study, wonders whether the school system has constructed “a job description for which there are very few really good candidates.”
“It may be that it’s an impossible job,” she said. “You’re asking for things that don’t often come in the same person.”
Posted by Nicholas at 2:28 AM
countenance said...
Not just principals. HS teachers are getting ridiculously young too, many aren't much older than HS students themselves.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 10:54:00 AM EST
I don't know about the ages of Chicago's principles but the number of high schools in Chicago has soared. The number of schools has been expanded while the population of the city and schools has diminished.
The propaganda responsible for this is the idea that smaller schools and classroom sizes will close "The Gap".
Meanwhile our property taxes keep going up and up.
I smell a skunk.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 6:43:00 PM EST
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SUBLINGUAL PERMEABILITY OF ATROPINE SULFATE USING NOVEL RAPIDLY DISINTEGRATING TABLETS FOR THE POTENTIAL TREATMENT OF ACUTE ORGANOPHOSPHATES
Rawan Bafail, Nova Southeastern University
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Objective. In some countries, Atropine Sulphte (AS) is available as IM auto-injector for veterans as an antidote for OPs chemical attacks. We hypothesized that AS administered sublingually using rapidly disintegrating sublingual tablets (RDSTs) may have the potential as an alternative dosage form for the treatment of organophosphates toxicity. Our aim in this study was to evaluate, ex vivo, the permeation of AS using RDSTs formulation. Background. Organophosphates (OPs) are being used as pesticides and nerve agents. According to the American Association of Poison Control Center, OPs were responsible for ten thousand toxicity cases between 2011 and 2013 due to their use as pesticides in the United States. Also, OPs have been used against civilians several times as weapons of mass destruction, although prohibited by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. For the treatment of OPs toxicity, atropine sulfate (AS) 2 mg, as antidote, should be administered intramuscularly (IM) as soon as possible, alone or with other therapeutic agents. However, AS IM injections are not readily available for civilians in most OPs toxicity cases and require a health care professional for their administration. AS auto-injectors are only available for veterans' use in some countries. These devices are expensive, bulky to carry, invasive, unavailable for civilians and veterans in many countries. Also, multiple devices are required for the administration of multiples doses of AS to treat OPs toxicity. We hypothesized that AS administered sublingually using rapidly disintegrating sublingual tablets (RDSTs) may have the potential as an alternative user-friendly dosage form for the treatment of organophosphates toxicity. Our aim in this study was to evaluate the feasibility of ex vivo permeation of AS using RDSTs formulation. Methods. Four batches of AS RDSTs, AS 2 mg RDSTs weighing 150 mg (B1), and AS 2 mg, 4 mg, and 8 mg RDSTs weighing 50 mg each (B2, B3, and B4, respectively), were manufactured by direct compression using a previously developed formulation. The ex vivo permeation of AS RDSTs was evaluated through excised porcine sublingual membrane using Franz cells (n=4). Phosphate buffer, pH 6.5, was used as a permeation medium. AS RDST was placed in the donor chamber that contained 2 mL of phosphate buffer. Aliquot samples, 200 μL, were withdrawn from the receptor chamber at several time-intervals. AS 2 mL solution, 1 mg/mL, was used as a reference (n=4). Results. Mean ± SD AUC0-90 AS permeation and influx (J) from B4 (11037 ± 3661 μg/cm2/min, 3.89 ± 1.38 μg/cm2/min, respectively) were significantly higher (p < 0.05) than B3 (7753 ± 2002 μg/cm2/min, 1.57 ± 0.69 μg/cm2/min), B2 (3650 ± 1499 μg/cm2/min, 1.22 ± 0.54 μg/cm2/min), B1 (2895 ± 370 μg/cm2/min, 0.953 ± 0.36 μg/cm2/min), and the reference (2292 ± 648 μg/cm2/min, 0.92 ± 0.28 μg/cm2/min). Mean ± SD AUC0-90 AS permeation and influx (J) from B2 and B1 was not significantly different (p > 0.05) form the reference. Increasing AS dose in the RDSTs increased the cumulative AS permeated linearly, R2=0.999. Conclusion. The permeation of AS through the sublingual mucosa was feasible and increasing AS dose increased its permeation linearly. These novel RDSTs released AS and promoted its permeability similar to the reference solution. AS RDSTs may have the potential as an alternative non-invasive, user-friendly dosage form for the treatment of organophosphate toxicity. Dose-ranging animal studies are required to confirm these results and to determine the relative sublingual bioavailability of AS. Grants. SACM
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Over-the-counter antihistamine can repair myelin damage in chronic MS
Heather J. Edwards October 24, 2017 7 min read
Comprehensive results from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) suggest that over-the-counter antihistamine clemastine fumarate is safe and effective for treating chronic demyelinating lesions in multiple sclerosis (MS) ֫ – even in patients who have experienced symptoms of myelin degeneration for years.
Although preliminary results were presented at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting last year, the full data from the ReBUILD trial has been published online October 10 in the Lancet.
The ReBUILD Phase 2 crossover study included 50 patients with relapsing MS, an average disease duration of 5 years, and chronic demyelinating optic neuropathy. The first group received oral clemastine fumarate twice daily for 3 months then placebo for 2 months, while the second group received the placebo for 3 months and the active treatment for 2 months.
The results showed that during the active treatment phase, the visual evoked potential (VEP) latency time was reduced from the baseline of 1.7 milliseconds per eye, the primary endpoint. In addition, this result remained significant throughout the study in the group that started with active treatment and then switched to placebo.
Although there were more reports of fatigue when participants took clemastine fumarate than placebo, no one reported serious treatment-related side effects. There was also no drop out during the study.
The investigators, led by Ari J Green, MD, head of the division of neuroinflammation and glial biology and professor at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), note that this is the first RCT to show the effectiveness of a remyelinating drug for this type of treatment.
Dr Ari J. Green
“Our results suggest that myelin repair can be achieved even after prolonged damage,” they write.
Dr Green stressed that the aim of the study was to demonstrate that this type of repair is possible. “And for me that was the most encouraging,” he said. Medscape Medical News.
Possibility of repair
While current treatments for MS block access to target tissues for immune cells or suppress inflammatory lesions, none completely prevent neuroaxonal degeneration – and no treatment is available to remyelinate the lesions, the researchers note.
Myelin in the central nervous system “is a specialized extension of the plasma membrane of oligodendrocytes and clemastine fumarate can stimulate the differentiation of precursor cells of oligodendrocytes [OPCs] in vitro, in animal models and in human cells, ”they write.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved the drug, which crosses the blood-brain barrier, in 1977 for the treatment of allergies. While a generic form has been available over the counter in the United States since 1992, the FDA granted an investigational new drug exemption to investigate its use in the treatment of MS in 2013.
“We realize that even to get a diagnosis of MS, there has to be a pre-existing injury. But the key part that has never been addressed is the regeneration and repair of the damage that occurs, especially to the oligodendrocytes.” said Dr Green.
“The main goal of our program was to work on developing treatments that could help with this whole repair process. We really wanted to prove the concept that repair might be possible, and that was the hope of this trial.” , he added.
In the 150-day ReBUILD study, 50 patients with long-standing MS were recruited to UCSF between January 2014 and April 2015. At screening, baseline, and months 1, 3, and 5, electrodes were placed on the scalp of the participants above the occipital. lobe. The VEPs then recorded cortical responses to an alternate pattern of repetitive visual images.
“Almost all patients [MS] eventually exhibit demyelinating damage to the anterior visual pathway and the detection of prolonged VEP latency was used as supporting evidence to help confirm a clinical diagnosis, ”the investigators write.
The primary outcome was the shortening of the P100 latency time on full-field pattern-inversion VEPs from baseline. All patients had a VEP P100 latency of 118 milliseconds in at least one eye, showing pre-existing neuronal transmission deficits.
VEP improvement
The first treatment group (n = 25; 76% female; mean age, 40.2 years) received 5.36 mg of clemastine fumarate twice daily for 90 days, followed by 60 days of corresponding placebo. The second group (n = 25; 52% female; mean age, 40.0 years) started with placebo for 90 days, then switched to active treatment for 60 days.
“The different length of the two epochs was intended to help determine whether a difference in effectiveness was based on the variation in exposure time,” the researchers explain.
Combined, the groups achieved the primary outcome while taking clemastine fumarate, reducing the latency time by 1.7 milliseconds per eye (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.5 – 2.9; P = .005).
Post hoc analysis using a delayed treatment model showed a reduction in VEP latency time of 3.2 milliseconds per eye (95% CI, 1.8 – 4.7; P = .0001).
In addition, an improvement in latency greater than 6 milliseconds was shown in 16% of group 1 and 26% of group 2 during the active treatment phase vs. 3% and 6% of each group, respectively, during the placebo phase.
The low contrast letter acuity (LCLA) was the primary functional secondary outcome. Although patients showed an improvement of 0.9 letters per eye when taking clemastine fumarate, this was not statistically significant (P = .085). In a post-hoc, delayed-treatment analysis, the suggested improvement was 1.6 letters per eye (P = .02).
No MRI measurements, including new and enlarged T2 lesions, showed improvement or worsening with active treatment in crossover or ad hoc analyzes. There were also no significant changes on the expanded disability status scale, the 25-foot timed walk, or the 6-minute walk test.
No serious adverse events occurred, but fatigue worsened considerably, as measured on the Multidimensional Fatigue Rating Scale, with or without active treatment (P = .02).
A first step?
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a therapy has been able to reverse the deficits caused by MS,” Dr. Green said in a press release. “It is not a cure, but it is a first step towards restoring the brain functions of the millions of people affected by this chronic and debilitating disease.”
Lead author Jonah Chan, PhD, professor of neurology and vice-chief of the division of neuroinflammation and glial biology at UCSF, first identified clemastine fumarate as a possible treatment for MS in 2013 Still, “people thought we were absolutely crazy” to start the ongoing trial, he said in the same statement.
“They believed that it was only in newly diagnosed cases that a drug like this could be effective. Intuitively, if the damage to the myelin is new, the repair change is strong,” Dr Chan said. . “In the patients in our trial, the disease had lasted for years, but we still saw strong evidence of repair.”
Dr Chan added that the disappointing MRI results highlight that MRI is a weak tool for this type of measurement. “We still do not have imaging methods that have been shown to be able to detect remyelination in humans,” he said.
Overall, “we not only saw an effect on our primary outcome, but there was even modest evidence of functional recovery on the part of the patients. This tells us that the repair process may have a functional benefit for patients, ”Dr Green said. Medscape Medical News.
That said, questions remain as to how long the window can be left open for repair. “Damage that is a decade or more old may not be as repairable. What we hope to have added is the feeling that the window of time is at least longer than immediate,” said Dr Green. .
“I would say the main takeaway for clinicians is this: the era of medically induced brain repair may be upon us.”
He cautioned, however, that the study treatment was not a wonder drug and was associated with fatigue, which is already a problem in MS. And although it is available over the counter, “it should only be taken with the advice and guidance of a healthcare practitioner or in clinical trials.”
Not clinically significant … yet
In a accompanying editorial, Jeffrey A. Cohen, MD, Neurologic Institute at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, and Paul J. Tesar, PhD, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, note that the positive results from the study were remarkable.
“However, the average improvements detected by VEP and LCLA in this short trial were modest and probably not of a clinically significant magnitude,” they write.
In addition to the short duration of the trial, they note that the dose was higher than what is commonly used to treat allergic symptoms in clinical practice.
However, testing the treatment for a longer period or at higher doses “could be difficult due to the side effects resulting from the interaction of clemastine fumarate with a variety of G-protein-coupled receptors,” write Dr. Cohen and Dr. Tesar.
“The sparse mechanistic data on human OPCs and the inability of many potent M1 muscarinic receptor antagonists to stimulate OPC differentiation in vitro suggest a lingering uncertainty around. [the drug’s] mechanism of action to promote remyelination and the need for further studies, ”they add.
In summary, “while clemastine fumarate is unlikely to be the final answer in the search for repair-promoting drugs to treat multiple sclerosis, the ReBUILD trial represents a milestone in this quest”.
The study was supported by the University of California at San Francisco and the Rachleff family. Dr Green says he has received grants from the National MS Society and the US National Institutes of Health, other backers from MedImmune, as well as grants and other backing from Inception Biosciences. He also declares to have received other supports apart from the submitted work of Mylan, Sandoz, Dr Reddy, Amneal, Momenta, Synthon, JAMA Neurology, and Bionure. A full list of disclosures for other study authors can be found in the original article. Dr. Cohen has received consulting fees from Adamas and Celgene “for the development of symptomatic and disease therapies” for MS and as co-editor of Multiple Sclerosis Journal – Experimental, Translational and Clinical. Dr Tesar reports on fairness as co-founder of Convelo Therapeutics and develops screening strategies to identify remyelinating compounds.
Lancet. Published online October 10, 2017. Full article, Editorial
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Rome at War
Caesar and his legacy
Essential Histories Specials 6
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy, Kate Gilliver, Michael Whitby
Short code: ESP 6
The story of a small town that rose to become the most powerful empire of the ancient world has been an inspiration to generations of people. Even after the collapse of the Roman Empire, many nations and their leaders have styled themselves 'heirs of Rome', emulating its society, technology and warfare. This book details the wars that shaped the Roman Empire, from the Gallic Wars of Julius Caesar and the subsequent civil war between Caesar and Pompey which tore apart the ageing Republic, through the expansion of the early Empire to its 'decline and fall'. Contains material previously published in Essential Histories 21: ‘Rome at War', Essential Histories 43: ‘Caesar's Gallic Wars' and Essential Histories 42: ‘Caesar's Civil War'.
Steven Saylor is the author of the ‘Roma Sub Rosa' series of crime novels. About the latest book in the series, ‘The Judgement of Caesar', ‘The Sunday Times' commented, 'Saylor evokes the ancient world more convincingly than any other writer of his generation'. C M Gilliver is lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University and author of ‘The Roman Art of War' (1999). She is preparing a book on Roman siege warfare and was the historical consultant for a BBC Timewatch programme on Roman soldiers. Adrian Goldsworthy's doctoral thesis formed the basis for his first book, ‘The Roman Army at War 100 BC-AD 200' (OUP, 1996). His research has focused on aspects of warfare in the Graeco-Roman world, and he has also written ‘Roman Warfare' (Cassell, 2000) and ‘The Punic Wars' (Cassell, 2000). Michael Whitby is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Warwick. He has published several articles on late Roman warfare and been involved as co-editor in ‘The Cambridge Ancient History XIV: AD 425-600' (2000). He is currently working on a study of Warfare and Society in the later Roman world.
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UAB Avion Express, on behalf of itself and Cubana de Aviacion S.A. - approval pursuant to section 60 of the CTA and section 8.2 of the ATR
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The United Nations Doesn’t Want You to Watch Fox News
By Davis Richardson • 05/03/18 4:48pm
President Donald Trump. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
After a week of festivities culminating in the White House Correspondents Dinner last weekend, the media is taking another victory lap with World Press Freedom Day. Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993, May 3 celebrates “the fundamental principles of press freedom,” according to the UN’s website.
Not all media organizations carry the UN’s seal of approval, however.
In a Thursday ad aired on MSNBC, captured by The Wrap’s Jon Levine, the UN encourages viewers to consume news from a variety of sources.
This ad for World Press Freedom Day just ran on MSNBC urging viewers to watch and read a variety of different news outlets.
….Fox News didn't make the cut pic.twitter.com/m8NZmbMtFX
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) May 3, 2018
“Read the Guardian,” the ad reads.
“Read The Atlantic.”
“Watch CNN.”
The video promotes over 25 media organizations, but omits America’s most-watched cable news network for the past 16 years: Fox News.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the department behind the video, did not respond to Observer’s multiple requests for comment by the time of publication.
Filed Under: Politics, National Politics, Fox News, United Nations, Media, Jon Levine, World Press Freedom Day
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Tell 'im how you really feel, Micki
Micki Jeans is a CT technologist and works for Ballad Health of Tennessee. Up until October 31, that is, when she will resign. She gave two weeks’ notice directly to Alan Levine, executive chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Ballad Health.
In her nine-page letter of resignation, Jeans gave her reasons: Levine sold out, and in good conscience and as a Christian, she can’t work for him anymore:
-Philip
rayvet October 26, 2021 at 11:52 AM
Sorry, Micki Jeans used way too many religious references in her argument for pointing out the douchebagery of this guy. Being a veteran, she should only have had to argue for the rights we are endowed with in this country in order to make her point. Religion muddies the water on things like this.
bogsidebunny October 26, 2021 at 12:26 PM
Words whether spoken or written to a Liberal are about as effective as tossing marshmallows at a charging elephant. But at least it made her feel better.
I disagree. This nation was founded on freedom of religion and she has every right and duty to speak her mind. Her snippets of her letter were very well written. I love the fact that she called out her boss that is a so-called Christian. There are way too many of wishy washy Christians put there that don't have the faith and balls to actually fight for what is right. Kind of like RINOS that are spineless POS^s. Kudos to her and I hope there are many more just like her. Hybo
Jerry Darrel October 26, 2021 at 1:53 PM
I respectfully disagree Rayvet. I see religious conviction downplayed and apologized for when it shouldn't be. Too a person of faith, it matters deeply when someone uses that faith as a shield for misdeeds. A yardstick of some kind has to be used and a person of faith uses their conviction as such. In my opinion, it's just as valid as any other opinion.
The target of the missive claimed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. If true, hitting him at the religious level was a good and solid tactic.
Frankly, when a pro-abortionist politician (Pelosi, Biden, etc) claim to be good Catholics, the correct answer is to excommunicate them for violating a pretty central tenant of the Catholic faith. Sure, it won't mean anything to a non-Catholic, but in theory it should to the Catholic.
So, in this case, hitting a person claiming to not only be a Christian, but one that has a personal relationship with Christ, about the head and shoulders with how they are violating their own faith is a very good tactic.
She was simply stating her rationale and beliefs which is if I'm not mistaken, is number one of those rights that you referenced. God bless her and more power to her and others...we sorely need more on our side just like her. FYI, I would have just told that sellout bastard to fuck off and die!
Fa Cube Itches October 27, 2021 at 1:14 AM
"Frankly, when a pro-abortionist politician (Pelosi, Biden, etc) claim to be good Catholics, the correct answer is to excommunicate them for violating a pretty central tenant of the Catholic faith."
Sorry, but The Church doesn't believe in any of that evil Xtianist bullshit, either. Communism, Gaia worship, Islam fellating and kiddie diddling - now THAT's a religion!
- Pope "Red" Francis
What bogside said
"Alan Levine" doesn't sound like a Christian name...
That's okay, he's not acting like one either. Given that he's solidly inside the Bible Belt, it would make sense that he claimed to be not only a Christian, but one with a personal relationship to Christ, even if he was a Satan worshiper (no, I don't know what his actual religion is -- but claiming "Christian" in that area of the country is a good maneuver).
This is much like in the 1970s, Jimmy Carter claimed to be a God-fearing baptist. For those that didn't follow along, the former president left his church because of politics. Jimmy Carter valued his politics more than his church; he valued his party more than his God. Some of us thought he was a hypocritical S.O.B. back when he was running in '76.
That right there is the problem:
* Acting all reasonable, confronting insanity with rational.
TheHive has zero-zero-zero interest in your reasons for resisting assimilation.
Swrichmond October 27, 2021 at 6:24 AM
Precisely correct
Maureen October 26, 2021 at 3:33 PM
She calls out hospitals and medical groups pushing the dangerous, deadly and evil jabs FOR MONEY! Doctors and hospitals who signed the contracts for these nanobot kill shots agreed to push the jabs and agreed to not treat patients with safer, inexpensive, proven effective, life-saving medicine! IOW: they are complicit in the deaths and suffering. They violated their oath to do no harm FOR MONEY and to spare their licenses=practice.
Pigpen51 October 26, 2021 at 5:13 PM
I am a Christian, who is more devoted to God than I express. But I don't make a big deal out of it, usually. Unless someone asks, I don't us it as a stick to beat someone over the head. But I am always ready to tell someone about God, if they ask.
The thing is, this hospital administer has shown by the way he lives his life that he either is not a Christian, or that he has some kind of trouble in his heart, that is causing him to struggle with how he lives his life. But we must remember that living a good, decent life is but one thing that can sometimes show that a Christian does to show that they are changed by having Christ as part of his life.
I think that this woman did a good thing, in writing this letter to him, if for no other reason than to help herself process what she is going through. But it might also help her former boss rethink his whole style of leading the hospital, and of treating people. That is the hope, and what her goal should be in writing this letter.
Chadd October 26, 2021 at 10:48 PM
And it’s exactly what both the Lord and the apostle Paul told us to do with fellow Christians who have failed to do what’s right.
Bert October 26, 2021 at 9:39 PM
Micki would be smart not to get into a life boat with that clown if there is only one life preserver on board.
Check The Facts October 27, 2021 at 3:47 PM
She's not real. Do 2 minutes of research on Google or anything else. The letter was written by someone trying to influence us
wirecutter October 27, 2021 at 5:17 PM
So why didn't you provide us with the research that you did if you think she's not real?
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‘Oppenheimer’: Cillian Murphy to Star Next Film in 2021!
Post category:Entertainment
“Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” It’s perhaps the best-known words of Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped create the atomic bomb back in 1945, and until now they have remained off-limits.
No major film studio or production has dared dive into the complexity of modern warfare and the lead-up to two of the most notable bombings in human history. But famed filmmaker Christopher Nolan is taking up the challenge and he’s bringing long-time collaborator Cillian Murphy along for the ride.
‘Oppenheimer’: Cillian Murphy
Universal Pictures and Nolan’s banner Syncopy have confirmed Cillian Murphy will star in Nolan’s next film Oppenheimer as the titular scientist. Known as ‘the father of the atomic bomb’, Oppenheimer’s story is one of great intrigue, playing the perfect backdrop for Nolan’s unique brand of storytelling. Better still, an official release date for Oppenheimer has already been announced, with the film to premiere on July 21, 2023, a slot typically saved for Nolan films in the past.
Written and directed by Nolan, the iMax-shot epic is set to take viewers into the complex life of the enigmatic man who risked destroying the world in order to save it. Production is slated to begin in early 2022 and will be shot on a combination of IMAX 65mm and 65mm large-format film.
Nolan has already shown his mettle in a wartime epic, crafting the critically acclaimed film Dunkirk. This time around, he’ll be joined by producer Emma Thomas and Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven. By all accounts, the film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin.
“Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas’ films have shattered the limits of what cinematic storytelling can achieve,” said Universal Filmed Entertainment Group Chairman, Donna Langley. “We are thrilled to be working alongside them on this exceptional and extraordinary project and are grateful for their shared passion and commitment to the theatrical experience.”
While we might have to wait some time for Nolan’s Universal Pictures debut to land, the premise does leave us interested. A no-holds-barred look at one of the most conflicted geniuses in history certainly makes for interesting viewing. Just what we can expect, however, is anyone’s guess. Perhaps Oppenheimer said it best when he noted “the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.”
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Devon and Cornwall Police FAQs
Please read these frequently asked questions before submitting your footage.
What is Operation Snap?
Operation SNAP is the police response to the ever increasing submissions of video evidence from members of the public in relation to witnessed driving offences.
What offences are included in Operation Snap?
Operation Snap will investigate road traffic offences such as dangerous driving, driving without due care and attention, careless driving, the dangerous close pass of a horse rider or cyclist, not wearing a seat belt, contravening a red traffic light and contravening solid white lines, however this is not an exhaustive list.
What if I’ve been involved in a road rage incident?
If there has been a serious physical or verbal act of violence following a driving incident then Operation Snap should not be used. The incident should be reported to Devon and Cornwall Police at 101@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk, as more serious offences may have been committed. If the threat is happening now, call the police emergency line by dialling 999.
I cannot read the number plate of the offending vehicle in my video, can you enhance it?
No. The Police cannot enhance recorded footage, if you are unable to read the vehicle number plate from the original clip, then the police are unlikely to be able to read it when they replay the footage.
How do I report an offence?
Offences can be reported via Operation Snap.
Will my mobile phone or other recording device be taken from me?
No, the device you use to record the offence will not be taken from you.
What do I need to do with the original recording?
It will be your responsibility to ensure that the original footage is saved in its original format dependant on how it is stored on the device. This could be for example on the internal memory of the device or perhaps on an external storage medium such as an SD card.
So if I have to keep the memory card or device to one side will the police give me a new one?
No. The police do not replace memory cards or devices with like items in any circumstances.
I’ve put my footage on social media, it’s getting lots of likes and comments, can you take a look please?
Please remove the footage from social media immediately. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) advice is that your footage should not be in the public domain as this may adversely affect any subsequent proceedings. Please fill in the Operation Snap web form here and start the process with us.
Can't I just send you some screen shots from a video I have? They clearly show the offence I want to bring to your attention.
No. Operation SNAP has been set up to capture moving traffic offences so it is important that police should view the offence as it occurs without enhancement or manipulation and in real time. It is very rare that we can process an offence from screen shots alone within SNAP. Dependant on the offence the police may require the video footage of the whole incident. They may also need to see more of your journey so that they can understand the context of what happened.
Will I have to make a statement?
Yes. As part of the Criminal Justice process, and in order to allow the police to deal with the offender in an appropriate manner, you will be required to provide a statement. However this can be completed on line and the majority of the statement will be completed as a result of you answering some simple pre-formatted questions.
Why do I have to be willing to go to court to give evidence?
On average only 1 to 2% of all offences reported using Operation Snap result in a court appearance but the police may not be able to prosecute the offence without you being willing to attend. The low number of cases heard at court is because we use other options to deal with driving offences such as fixed penalty notice or the offer of a driver education course. When cases are heard at court, we have found that the video evidence is so compelling that a ‘not guilty plea’ is rarely entered. This means that even if your case is heard at court, you may not be asked to attend to give evidence.
Will I be kept updated on the progress of my submission?
We will not have the capacity to feedback on every single submission, however we will publish performance data on a regular basis.
Will my own driving or the way in which I captured the footage be scrutinised?
You must be aware that when the police review the footage which you submit they are duty bound to also review the manner of your driving and also the manner in which the footage was obtained. For example, if you were exceeding the speed limit in order to catch up with an offending driver and then proceeded to film them with your mobile phone whilst driving, then the police will consider also taking proceedings against you.
What will happen to the driver?
There are a number of disposal methods available dependant on the nature of the offence. The driver could be offered a driver education course, they could receive a fixed penalty notice, they could receive a summons to attend court or we may decide we are unable to take any further action. The footage and statement will have been reviewed by a Police Prosecutor who will take all factors into consideration, including current CPS charging standards.
Do I need to have a date/time stamp on my video footage? If so, must this be exactly the right time?
Ideally the date and time should be correct. The video footage is used to support your written witness testimony. You must account for any discrepancies in date/time within your witness evidence presented to us. Your witness statement must clearly state what time/date the incident occurred.
I want you to see the footage but don’t want to go to court. Can’t you just deal with it?
We need your statement; we need to fully understand the situation and people have a right to have matters heard in a court of law. Please fill in the web form here. We will be in touch if you are required to attend court and support you through the process.
How will the evidence I provide be used?
The evidence which you provide to the police by way of the submission of digital media footage and a statement will be reviewed by a Police Prosecutor to firstly establish if an offence has been committed and to identify the specific offence. For cases recommended to proceed, staff from Devon & Cornwall Police Collisions & Tickets Section will serve Notice of Intended Prosecution to the registered keeper of the vehicle and requiring the identity of the driver.
Each case will be considered with reference to CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) charging standards, Eligibility Criteria and Professional Practice on options to deal with road traffic offenders. Police Evidential Reviewers will direct the appropriate outcome, options of which are to prosecute the case at court, offer a National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) driver educational course, or offer a fixed penalty (which could include both a fine and licence endorsement.) By using Operation Snap, the user agrees to leave the question of prosecution or other disposal in the hands of the police.
Will the offending driver know who I am?
The offending driver will not be provided with your details. However on the rare occasion that the offence which you have reported results in a court appearance, then at this stage the offending driver will become aware of your name but not your address or any other personal details.
Are there any time limits which I must adhere to?
The types of offences that Operation Snap deal with generally have a 6 month time limit for prosecution. The police also have a strict legal obligation to inform the offending driver of the offence which they have committed and usually within 14 days of that incident. Please make sure your submissions are uploaded as soon as possible. Police can usually only continue with submissions that are received within 7 days of the incident.
What if I have footage of other offences not covered by Operation Snap?
If you have footage of any other types of offences that are not road traffic related not covered by Operation Snap then it is suggested that you contact the relevant authority which generally tends to be the police or the local authority and provide them with the footage. Devon and Cornwall Police can be contacted via 101@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk
How will my footage be stored?
The footage which you submit along with your statement will be stored securely on a cloud server.
How long will the footage be stored for?
All material associated with an offence or prosecution will be retained in line with the police force retention policies. If your submission is not progressed your footage and any associated files will be deleted.
You’re asking the public to do the police’s job here. Why can’t you catch all these people breaking the law?
The police have been receiving complaints from members of the public about dangerous and anti-social driving for some time. Operation Snap allows us to effectively deal with the footage in a safe and secure way, whilst making the investigation process simple and straight forward for the police and members of the public. Devon and Cornwall Police has a determined and robust approach to policing the roads and will take every opportunity to make them safer for everyone. Operation Snap is not asking you to go out and detect offences for us, but we will deal with any you find. All roads policing cars, marked and unmarked, are fitted with video recording equipment. The police make use of this all the time. They capture offences and deal with them as appropriate. The police work in partnership with local authorities, other police forces, and Highways England.
What about cyclists and close passes – will you deal with them?
Yes. Operation Snap is designed to improve road safety and to prosecute those that place others at risk. We wish to support individuals choosing a sustainable form of transport such as cycling, and recognise they are one of our more vulnerable road users. We will hold drivers to account on every occasion it is identified that the standard of driving falls below that of a careful and competent driver.
What about the cyclists breaking the law? If you're going to process people for careless driving by putting cyclists at risk, what about the cyclists who ignore red lights and cause risk with their riding?
The police will deal with all matters such as careless or dangerous riding if the identity of the rider is known. Vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders and motorcyclists are at much greater risk of serious injury and death than those in vehicles. Our priority is to protect those most vulnerable.
If the police and everyone else is going to start taking action over all these people caught on camera, can the police cope?
Yes. It’s easy for people to engage in Operation Snap and processes have been designed to run smoothly. Operation Snap has one desired outcome: making our roads safer.
I think I’ve been reported by someone using Operation SNAP. What should I do?
Engage with us. We seek only one thing – that is, if we can, to influence your future driving behaviour so that our roads are safer. If you wish to speak to us further then contact Devon and Cornwall Collisions and Tickets Section on 01752 488004 between 1000hrs and 1300hrs Monday to Friday.
Will my footage be used for any other purposes?
Footage submitted to Devon and Cornwall Police Operation Snap may be used for media/training/publication purposes.
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PTSD Program
Robert Olejar - Co Founder
Chairman and Executive Director
Robert (Bob) Olejar, is a co-founder of Operation Charity with a long history of assisting charities of all types. He has leveraged his experience in the entertainment industry to assist charities such as; Susan G. Komen Foundation, Wounded Warriors, American Red Cross, Together 1 Heart, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital and dozens more.
Olejar is the founder of the Placement Directory, and a graduate of Michigan State University with 25 years’ experience in the entertainment industry. In 1991 he began his work to revolutionize the modeling and acting industries. In a time when the Internet could only display text and only 1 in 100 Americans had an email address, Olejar was designing a structure to transmit images, manage castings, career planning and every aspect of business for models, actors and their clients on a global bases.
His research and design work was awarded a United States patent. Olejar is responsible for the first talent database with scheduling, first casting through a computer and first electronic talent images online. His revolutionary structure was implemented in six continents and every major talent market. Spanning nine languages and over thirty currencies, his work took a basically local industry and made it global. Olejar’s organizational format has been emulated by several dozen companies and is now the foundation of the modern modeling and acting industries.
Along the way Olejar has been interviewed or written about in over 50 publications including the New York Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Vogue, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Women’s Wear Daily, Backstage, Chicago Tribune, London Times, and several more..
Howard Altman
Howard Altman is an award-winning planner, urban designer, architect, and landscape architect responsible for a wide variety of planning and design projects throughout North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, Oceana and the Middle East. He is particularly qualified in the full range of planning and design services from regional development; new town and communities; mixed-use commercial; residential, urban design; tourism, leisure and entertainment to resource management assignments.
After retiring as an AECOM senior vice president international and consulting principal, Howard has been offering his executive consulting and advisory services to a select group of clients in need of project visioning and development implementation advice. As a previous planning and design consultant for many years with major land owners/developers and governmental agencies, he understands how to create the most compelling project vision, select the best qualified team and how to get the very best from them.
Howard was in charge of international projects at AECOM (formerly EDAW) for over 35 years. With more than 40-years experience, he has directed and participated on assignments in over 50 countries for both private and public sector clients. He was also an EDAW board member, company secretary and executive committee member for many years. He has also been a board advisor to a major diversified listed Asian company.
Tonya Comfort - Co-Founder
Head of Equine Operations
Tonya Comfort is a co-founder of Operation Therapy and head of the all equine operations. She is one of the premier horse trainers in the country known for her work to advance training techniques for horses along with more structure care and behavioral shaping are the basis for our charity’s equine program.
For over 20 years she has been working with horses and owners using classical techniques to help owner’s use natural concepts to communicate with their horses. Tonya began riding at the age 11, riding Barrel horses and competing in 4-H. She also rides Hunter, Jumpers, Western Pleasure, Dressage and Reining.When she graduated, she developed her career towards becoming an instructor in Chicago at the Horse Forum. She trained horses in New York at Lorick Stables, then she furthered her career in Oklahoma before returning to Michigan to train Miniature horses for Operation Therapy.
In addition to her diverse background Tonya also stands out with her training programs and techniques, by helping rescue horses have the advantage of learning to the best of their potentials in any discipline they excel in. Her advanced techniques improve inter-species communication between horse and handler allowing her to solve behavioral problems and advance training in ways that were unthinkable only a generation ago.
Tonya’s goal as she grows as a horse trainer, she would like to help others realize the full potential of the strengths of animal’s abilities in the therapeutic and service world.
Rick Grimaldi
Rick Grimaldi is a Partner in the Philadelphia office of the national law firm Fisher Phillips. In this capacity, he works tirelessly to help his clients be better employers, leading to more satisfied employees.
Personally, Rick is very passionate about giving back to the community and being an active participant in solutions. As an Operation Therapy board member he supports the organization in their work providing service dog training to support our veterans, children and the elderly. As a former Board member and now Ambassador, Rick also works with The Moyer Foundation/Eluna and its mission to provide comfort, hope and healing to children and families affected by grief and addiction through their camps and resources. Rick is also an ardent champion of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia and the myriad programs they provide.
Rick’s practical approach to solving workplace challenges with his clients, is a natural outgrowth of his experience leading an Employee Relations team as Director of Labor Relations for a large international technology company, and his experience serving the citizens of Pennsylvania as Deputy General Counsel to Governor Tom Ridge and Chief Counsel of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.
As a co-principal of Fisher Phillips Government Relations subsidiary, FP Advocacy, Rick is also on the front lines of advocating before state and local legislative bodies to develop laws and policies that allow employers to thrive while addressing workplace concerns.
Rick has been named to Best Lawyers in America and is internationally recognized as an outstanding trainer, writer and presenter on issues impacting the workplace.
Christopher Grimaldi
Christopher Grimaldi is an accomplished and award-winning writer, photographer, filmmaker, editor, and actor, with over 20 years in the entertainment industry.
A dynamic creator of content, with a particular passion for narrative forms, he has worked in all aspects of production and branding to help companies put their best foot forward and expand their business base. He has also used his skills in front of the camera to do the same.
As an actor, model, spokesperson, on-air host, and voice-over artist, he has appeared in feature films, television, and on the radio, as well as been the face of over a hundred national and international commercial campaigns, including Visa, Microsoft, Comcast, and more in print, in person, or on the small screen. As host of the Emmy-award winning travel show Awesome Adventures, he has interviewed people from around the world and experienced everything from tossing fish with the vendors in Seattle’s Pikes Peak Market to performing the Haka with Maori tribesman in New Zealand.
Christopher brings his wide variety of creative skills to bear on all his artistic visions and professional projects, which allows for maximum production value with minimum crew, to keep productions mobile and cost-efficient. This has led to positions as Head of Production and Chief Creative Officer for multi-million dollar companies.
He is proud to bring this complete and efficient approach to his pro bono work for worthy causes to help them get the word out about their charities.
While Justin Hartley may be best known as an award-nominated actor, producer, and director, he also holds a strong passion for philanthropy and giving back to his community. Hartley has a huge heart for charity and is active in multiple organizations that support animal rescue across the nation. This is why Hartley is thrilled to join the Board of Directors for “Operation Therapy” to lend his efforts toward assisting veterans struggling with PTSD in finding their forever friend in trained service dogs and therapy horses.
Hartley is currently making waves following a successful season four of the critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated NBC series “This Is Us.” The series has been hailed as broadcast television’s #1 show and continues to dominate in the ratings week after week, four seasons later. Hartley’s work as Kevin Pearson on the award-winning drama has earned him successive Critics’ Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series two years in a row, and he and his cast members won both the 2018 and 2019 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. “This Is Us” has collectively earned 159 award nominations, 45 wins, and counting since it’s breakout debut in 2016. Additionally, Hartley was able to bring his directorial skills to the table in season 4, directing one of the most heartfelt and deeply emotional episodes in the series to date (episode 413 – “A Hell of a Week: Part Three”). The media, fans and Hartley’s own cast and crew have praised his directing work and he looks forward to directing additional episodes down the line.
When he isn’t working in front of the camera or lending his hand to various charitable causes, Hartley can be found nourishing his recently launched production company ChangeUp Productions, which recently inked a pod deal with 20th Century Fox TV.
Asher Jay
Asher Jay, National Geographic explorer turned entrepreneur, is an international adventurer and public figure whose career arc has taken her from fashion designing on Seventh Avenue to campaigning against blood ivory on it’s bright Billboards. Through her compelling paintings, sculptures, installations, animations, ad campaigns, and films, Jay’s work has contributed to raising consumer awareness and empowering citizen action. Her singular purpose: to solve for a sustainable, holistic future that fosters tangible coexistence between humanity and wild. Jay’s current efforts explore technology as the final frontier to address inequity. Jay and her team aim to foster a debt-free paradigm that takes humanity out of its exploitative, deficit-causing expression and into models of mutualism. Working for people and planet with purpose Jay asserts, “individually we can tell stories, but together we can change the narrative.”
John Nozell
John Nozell has been involved in operating, restructuring, and raising capital for businesses his entire career. He has served as a Director and Chairman of Avocet Risk Management, Ltd. since shortly after its inception in 2011.
From 2017-2019, he held senior positions at PayCargo LLC, with a primary focus of launching PayCargo Finance as CEO, engineering the re-launch of PayCargo’s credit-related financial services business. He also served as CFO of PayCargo Europe.
John spent 19 years with JP Morgan Chase & Co., with positions in NY and London, including Managing Director, Global Investment Banking, and Head of Aviation & Aerospace Investment Banking. John was also an early member of the Aviation Working Group in the late 1990’s. In September, 2011, John was appointed Chief Operating Officer of John G. Ullman & Assoc., a New York State based $1Bn Wealth Management Firm, where he also remains on the Board of Directors. In August, 2014, he was appointed Head of School and Trustee of Cheshire Academy, charged with engineering a financial and operational turnaround.
John has also held positions as EVP/CFO of Advion BioSciences, Chief Investment Officer and Director of AWAS Aviation Services, Ltd., in Dublin Ireland, Managing Director and Head of EAME for The Seabury Group, London, UK, and Senior Lecturer of Finance and Entrepreneurship at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he continues to lecture. He has been a contributing writer to Euromoney publications and to Directorship, the magazine of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
John has served on the Boards of many Not For Profits, including The Food Bank of the Southern Tier of New York, The Rockwell Museum, The United Way of Tompkins County, Ithaca Music Academy, and The Connecticut Association of Independent Schools. John holds an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management and is a graduate of Colgate University, from which he has received the Wm. Brian Little Award for Outstanding Service.
Robert O. O’Reilly, Jr.
Bob is a partner of Acorn Investments, an early stage Venture Capital firm investing primarily in advanced material companies with positive environmental impacts, since 2012.
Prior to joining Acorn, Bob spent a year as a Private Wealth Adviser at Goldman Sachs & Co. in their New York City office. He worked on a senior team with $1 billion under management advising clients on matters of philanthropic giving, trust and estate planning, along with strategic and tactical asset allocation. Bob joined Goldman Sachs after completing his M.B.A. with a concentration in Strategy at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Bob is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wellfleet Management, an education management firm focused on the childcare industry.
Prior to Wellfleet Management, he was in the Financial Management Program at General Electric Capital Corporation. While there he held positions in operational finance, pricing and financial planning and analysis for their reinsurance, corporate finance and fleet services businesses. Previously, Bob was a business analyst at Electronic Data Systems in their Information Analyst Development Program. In addition to his M.B.A. from Fuqua, Bob holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Boston College. He held his series 3, series 7, and series 66 licenses. Bob is on the Board of Directors of John G. Ullman & Associates, Inc.
Thomas Pratt
Tom Pratt, extrovert, dad and passionate connector raised in Montana, represents holistic community values, from mindful farming practices on his ranch to how he is raising his own child. Pratt began an aviation career in Glasgow Montana, by founding Prairie Aviation Inc which fueled his passion for flying. He became an airline pilot for Big Sky Airlines in 2000, and joined American Airlines in 2004 with whom he took to the skies for 16 years. Currently residing in Bozeman Montana, he is the founder of a tech startup focused on addressing inequity. He is a deeply concerned and curious individual, invested in coming up with measurable ways to give back to people and the planet.
Nate Schoemer -
Head of Canine Operations
Nate Schoemer is the head of canine operations for Operation Therapy. He has designed our premier training program matching the ideal training techniques with the proper physical and mental developmental period of a dog’s life. His approach to training virtually eliminates the amount of time a dog ever has to spend in a kennel for the benefit of the dog, the trainer and the veteran.
Schoemer is an American dog training and canine educational expert and former United States Marine. He was certified as a Professional and Master Dog Trainer through the Tom Rose School, where he graduated at the top of his class in both the Professional and Master Dog Trainer programs.
Nate began using his extensive experience to help many canine professionals establish their own similar companies. Shortly after his return to LA, Nate was cast by Animal Planet as the co-host of Rescue Dog to Super Dog; a UK show that was formatted for American audiences. In the show, Nate transformed rescue dogs into service dogs to help the lives of people affected by disabilities.
He prides himself on his self-motivation, honesty, integrity, enthusiasm, and determination to serve his clients and his community in all of his endeavors. He currently works on his entrepreneurial activities and lives with his Malinois, Arih, and Labrador, Charlie.
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Tag: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Justice after Violence: Critical Perspectives from the Western Balkans
Efficiency versus Sovereignty: Delegation to the UN Secretariat in Peacekeeping
This article analyses why the UN’s members delegate resources to the UN Secretariat in the sensitive field of peacekeeping. It argues that the Secretariat can carry out planning and implementation functions more efficiently, but that the states remain wary of potential sovereignty loss. Through a mixed methods approach, this article provides evidence for such a functional logic of delegation, but shows that it only applies from the late-1990s on. The change in approach of states towards delegation can be explained by feedback from the dramatic failures of peacekeeping in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda and Somalia.
Does Bosnia Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission? Some Reflections on its Possible Design
Getting Back on Track in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Back to the Brink in Bosnia?
The Dayton Dilemma
Gender, Representation and Power-Sharing in Post-Conflict Institutions
The article sketches the tension between power-sharing as a form of conflict resolution and the implementation of WPS norms in peace processes. It begins with an exploration of each process, before considering how the cases have broached the relationship between power-sharing and women’s representation.
Non-discriminatory Rules and Ethnic Representation: The Election of the Bosnian State Presidency
The electoral system for the state presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina guarantees the representation of the three constituent people, Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats, but it violates the political rights of other ethnic minorities and of citizens who do not identify themselves with any ethnic group. Following the 2009 judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, Bosnia was urged to reform its electoral law. This paper discusses alternative practices of ethnically based political representation and their possible application in the Bosnian state presidency elections. Several innovative electoral models that satisfy fair political and legal criteria for desirable electoral dynamics in divided societies can be envisaged in the Bosnian context. Specifically, these are: the introduction of a single countrywide electoral district, the adoption of the single non-transferable vote, and the application of a geometrical mean rule. They guarantee the representation of the three constituent people, while strengthening inter-ethnic voting and giving chances to non-nationalist candidates to be elected.
Financing and Aid Management Arrangements in Post-Conflict Settings
This note, summarizing the analysis and recommendations of an upcoming CPR Working Paper of the same title, looks at issues related to financing modalities and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations. It makes a number of recommendations based on a review of several recent case studies, of which four are assessed in detail: West Bank and Gaza, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor, and Afghanistan. It focuses on the lessons of experience on multi-donor trust funds and on the recipient government’s aid management architecture in post-conflict settings. This paper is concerned with the specific issues of financing modalities and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations, and advances a number of recommendations on the basis of a review of several recent cases, among which four are assessed in detail: West Bank and Gaza, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor (Timor-Leste) and Afghanistan. While generally applicable recommendations do emerge from the review, the most important recommendation is to tailor the design and sequencing of financing and aid coordination to the circumstances of the specific case.
Publisher The World Bank Group
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People Power: A Better World for People with Alzheimer's
June 19, 2015 – 5:00 AM – 5 Comments
By Paula Spencer Scott Parade @PSpencerScott
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Kathy Broggy heard shouts. Then she saw a crowd gathered around a car. Inside, an older woman, who had Alzheimer’s, had forgotten how to get out. But the bystanders’ well-intentioned yelling only made her more confused. “It just made me heartsick,” says Broggy, the activity director for a small eldercare company in Knoxville, Tenn. “Nobody understood the basic dos and don’ts about helping people with Alzheimer’s.”
A light bulb went off soon after when she heard about communities in Europe where city workers, shopkeepers and others learn how to interact with people with dementia in ways that provide help and preserve their dignity. We could do that here, she thought.
Last month, Knoxville became a “dementia-friendly” city. Signed on to support simple, citywide training are dozens of representatives from city and county government, major hospitals, the local Alzheimer’s Association and the Pat Summitt Foundation, started by the beloved University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach after disclosing her early onset Alzheimer’s in 2011.
“We’ve done it with just a group of people who wanted this to happen,” says Broggy.
The Power of Many Helping Hands
Broggy’s tale illustrates that the big story about Alzheimer’s today is actually a thousand little stories. Lacking a cure or even meaningful treatments, those who bear the brunt of care are taking things into their own hands—and sharing their inspired solutions. Some reach hundreds or thousands at once. Others improve a handful of lives at a time.
This kind of grassroots movement is key to helping patients and caregivers cope with a disease on the rise. Every 67 seconds, someone in the U.S. develops Alzheimer’s, according to the Alzheimer’s Association; an estimated 5.3 million Americans of all ages already have the disease in 2015. One in three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or other dementia, it’s the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., and it’s the only cause of death in the top 10 in America that can’t be prevented, cured or slowed, the association says.
Enter people power. “A lot of unmet needs are being responded to spontaneously—to fill the needs for inclusion, for less stigma about the disease and for more focus on quality of life,” says Lisa Gwyther, education director at Duke University’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. “People want to give to others.”
Solving Problems
Many great ideas are born from nightmarish situations. Gary Joseph LeBlanc once left his father’s hospital room for just 10 minutes to get some fresh air. When he returned, a nurse was quizzing the elder LeBlanc, who was there for a surgery but also had Alzheimer’s, about his prescription history—and writing his wrong answers into his chart. “The poor man couldn’t even have told her if he’d taken a pill five minutes ago,” says LeBlanc, who realized in that moment that someone had to be with his dad constantly in the hospital.
Unaware staff, noise and a disrupted routine often agitate hospitalized people who have dementia, LeBlanc learned—putting them at risk for mistakes, restraints or sedations. His simple idea: Remind every doctor, nurse and orderly that a patient has dementia by placing a special sticker—a purple angel, the international symbol of Alzheimer’s—on their admission wristband next to their name. At the same time, train staff about disease basics and how to communicate more kindly and effectively.
After six years of lobbying administrators about his wristband project, Brooksville Regional Hospital in Hernando County, Fla., where his dad had stayed, became the first to adopt it. Seven more hospitals in four states will do the same this year, LeBlanc says. “Everyone says, ‘Wow, why don’t we have something like this already?’ ”
Barbara Marion Horn’s nightmare began as Superstorm Sandy bore down on Long Beach, N.Y., where she and her mother, then 92, lived in 2012. During the mandatory evacuations that relocated them several times over a four-week span, her mother’s mild-stage Alzheimer’s got much worse. “If I’d only known the psychological trauma associated with moving a fragile older person, I would have approached our evacuation completely differently,” she says. That’s why Horn now advocates for senior-centered disaster preparedness, working with civic groups to create education and shelter-training materials and response plans that include older adults with dementia.
Other efforts focus on improving everyday life. Although the brain changes of Alzheimer’s can alter memories and personalities, families know that the person is still “alive inside.” That’s the name of a documentary screened at the Sundance Film Festival last year about Dan Cohen, a self-described techie who began bringing iPods with customized playlists to nursing-home residents, with remarkable results. Millions of people have seen a viral video of wheelchair-bound Henry Dreher, 94, swinging and singing along with Cab Calloway. Personalized music, Cohen has shown, calms agitated minds and triggers deep emotional recall, even into the late stages of dementia.
His organization, Music & Memory, furnishes donated iPods to more than 1,150 facilities in the U.S. and Canada, and offers guides for families on its website. “And it’s all spread by word of mouth,” Cohen says. “If pharmacists invented a pill that generated these results, every doctor would prescribe it and every family would want it.”
Celebrities speak out about Alzheimer’s
More grassroots efforts that are improving quality of life:
Story-power hour Librarian Tysha Shay often read aloud to her grandmother, who lived next door. Despite her Alzheimer’s, her memories were sparked, in particular, by old poems. Realizing that other shut-in older adults with dementia had no way to access library materials, Shay started an outreach program through Missouri’s Springfield-Greene County Library District. More than 1,500 people have attended these “Stories for Life” sessions at local retirement communities.
Shall we dance? “You’re never in a bad mood when you’re dancing,” says ballroom instructor Nathan Hescock of Rhythm Break Cares, a nonprofit in New York City that brings the restorative power of dance to people with dementia. Fourteen years ago, he was asked to help with a six-week dancing project at a nursing home in New York’s West Village. He kept coming after it ended, inspired by the way movement and music bring joy and confidence to people with early and mid-stage dementia. “They know how to foxtrot, how to jitterbug—and not from watching Dancing With the Stars,” he says.
iPad memory books Jenny Rozbruch ached when vascular dementia left her vivacious grandmother, Frieda, a Holocaust survivor, barely able to communicate. Maybe the iPad could help, the graphic designer thought. She packaged old family photos, Yiddish folk songs, Frank Sinatra trivia and other blasts from Frieda’s past into an app. Now called GreyMatters, the app lets users add personalized images and prompts to help family members engage with someone with dementia. Nearly a thousand people downloaded the free app the first month after its launch.
Building Connections
When Alzheimer’s drops in, old friends often drop out. Isolation is common. Families quickly realize they need others who get it. So they’re building ways to find them:
The never-ending class After social worker Bobbi Matchar held an eight-week education program at Duke University for people recently diagnosed and their care partners, the group grew so close nobody wanted it to end. So they called themselves “the Alphas” and three years later, still meet monthly at a local restaurant, along with later graduates of the Duke class.
“It creates a sense of community among people who didn’t choose to have this situation and who often have to quit their old communities at work and church,” says Matchar.
Drop-in tea & empathy “When people hear the words ‘support group,’ they focus on how there’s something wrong with them or they expect to sit and learn,” says Lori La Bey, who dealt with her mom’s Alzheimer’s for three decades. “I wanted a safe, supportive gathering where you could just be yourself with friends.” She created Arthur’s Memory Café, which meets twice a month at J. Arthur’s Coffee Shop in Roseville, Minn. La Bey pulled together sponsors including her own Alzheimer’s Speaks advocacy group and a residential care home, which furnishes the coffee and treats.
The world’s biggest support group Bob DeMarco began a website after he moved to Delray Beach, Fla., in 2003 to help his mother, Dotty. His goal was to figure out what he calls her “Alzheimer’s World,” so he posted whatever worked: research news, his discovery of how morning light improved her mood, videos of her conversing with Harvey, a talking mechanical parrot he’d found. Today, his Alzheimer’s Reading Room has 5,000 articles and draws 195,000 visitors a month, who leave their own advice and give pep talks to one another.
After his mother died in 2012, DeMarco continued the site to honor her, he says. “Without that love and support we received from readers our situation would have evolved into heartbreak; instead, we experienced joy.”
Less stress, more joy—that’s also why Kathy Broggy galvanized her Knoxville, Tenn. community. Now her sights are even bigger: “I hope by next year, there will be an alliance of cities joining to become Purple Cities,” says Broggy, whose dementia-friendly community campaign began with a simple page on Facebook. “It just takes one person to grow something,” she says. That’s people power.
Paula Spencer Scott is the author of Surviving Alzheimer’s: Practical Tips and Soul-Saving Wisdom for Caregivers.
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We’ve done so much over the past few decades to kill off the bacteria around us, with hand washing (not a bad thing as you will find out), to using anti-bacterial washes and sprays, using anti-biotics, irradiating foods and chlorinating our water, science has worked hard to eradicate something which are learning to evolve, but which our health hangs on in some cases.
It’s only about 2 centuries ago that is was realised that not washing your hands could spread disease and create higher mortality rates. As with many new theories it took a while to be taken on board, and it was a doctor Semmelweis who worked in obstetrics who realised that some of his colleagues were going from working with cadavers to the maternity part of the hospital and not cleansing their hands effectively. He realised this by comparing mortality rates from the 2 clinics of those giving birth. Those who washed their hands after handling cadavers left more people alive he found and the hand washing procedure was forever put in place, in fact in 1980 it was reviewed, and then again in 1996 by the World Health Organisation who actually have a hand washing strategy in place. Sadly Semmelweis didn’t fair so well and ended his life being beaten to death in an insane asylum by those caring for him.
But back to bacteria, we have about 10 times the amount of bacteria in our body than we do cells, we are more bacteria than we imagine, so the idea we can kill them off in many respects doesn’t make total sense. Our health is profoundly affected by our bowel bacteria or flora and it’s makeup in the intestines, you can change and reverse or even create health conditions if this bowel flora is not in balance. That balance is all about food, nutrients, and lifestyle as well as our environment, they all affect the bacteria in our intestines, hence why someone like myself always works on getting the health of the gut right. In fact the naturopaths of old would have had you doing enema’s and colonics immediately to cleanse the gut, clearing out old waste and helping elimination happen, and prevent the reabsorption of old waste. I love using these techniques, they are still hugely valuable, and as far as I’m concerned very under used by most people.
Sadly most of us now have been given higher doses of antibiotics at some stage in our lives by our GP or consultant, it’s not as frequent now as it has been in the past but even in the medical establishments opinion, they have been over used particularly in animals where usage is high, and obviously carries a knock on effect into our health, hence the current view that in 2 decades our antibiotics will no longer be able to fight the current bacteria health issues that we have. Most antibiotics tend to kill off the Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria strains, this makes milk and dairy sugars harder to break down and absorb, and has a knock on effect on the breakdown of other foods as well. This changes the level of immunity, and health overall, and changes the permeability of the gut wall.
But it’s not just antibiotics that are having the knock on effect on our gut bacteria, it’s also the food choices we make, processed and high sugar foods affect our intestinal bacteria, sweeteners and GMO’s, steroids, contraceptive pills, alcohol and tobacco are all even changing the microbiome of the gut. Why is that important? Well they create a serious imbalance in the bacterial strains, they erode away the integrity of the gut, and start to lay the foundations for mycelial candida, and even leads to colon cancer, puts it all in perspective now why I’m so keen to resolve the gut health.
Typical signs of dysbiosis in the bacteria of the gut include bloating, fatigue, hyperactivity, flatulence, diarrhoea, distention, UTI’s, itching, cravings, weight issues, PMS, irritability, memory issues, lack of concentration, extreme sensitivity to petrochemicals, or food allergies, aching and even vision issues.
The new name for probiotics are cultures, the EU now approves some of them and allows us to make claims about how they can improve health. They are shown to improve the health of the thymus, and spleen, increasing white blood cells, and therefore improving immunity. The use of cultures also help to reduce toxicity that is happening in the gut, which knocks on as some of you will know from me to the liver. Therefore the introduction of the right bacteria help to be liver protective, but more importantly research shows that the right bacteria can be anti cancinogenic, with anti tumour effects, in fact they are shown to help inhibit colon cancer. Does it stop there, well the consumption of fermented milk or yoghurt is shown to reduce cholesterol, knocking on it’s head how we should be not consuming fats and saturated ones at that!
The impact of altering the gut bacteria can be far spread across the body, not only affecting some of the aforementioned issues, but also halitosis, yes not only is resolving the bacteria in the mouth the issue here, but bad breath for me a sign of something deeper happening.
The gut mind link is now clearly established, and what naturopaths for years have been doing is now being supported by scientific research. The right bacteria can be neuroprotective, and the changes are mediated via the vagus nerve, spinal cord, or neuroendocrine systems, for those with mental health issues and stress this can be something to consider, that it is a knock on effect of a dysbiosis issue, in fact it is well known that dysbiosis of the bacteria will have an effect on memory and concentration, but also it has recently been found to also affect the brain structure, including circuitry and wiring!
Aloe vera has also been shown in research to help with the digestion of proteins, and with the improvement of the environment of the gut flora so it’s not just about taking the right bacteria it’s about how we need to create an environment in which they thrive. The impact that Aloe Vera had was to alter the pH of the intestinal tract, and of course the right pH matters in all areas of the body if we are to have good levels of health, but it definitely matters for the bacteria that need to live it in.
Avoid non organic meat the usage of hormones and antibiotics is shown to have a knock on effect on our health.
Consume fermented foods regularly, sauerkraut, kefir and yoghurts.
Aloe Vera may be a beneficial addition, see contraindications linked to your health and circumstances.
Medical disclaimer.
The information contained in this newsletter in no way is to be seen as medical advice, or is a replacement for seeing your GP or medical practitioner with a known medical condition.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK144018/
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1.2.1 Anti-Harassment & Non-Discrimination Policy Complaint Procedure for Students and Employees
This procedure is for filing an OEOA complaint against an employee or student based on a protected class that is not TITLE IX hostile environment, sexual assault/misconduct, domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking.
For those allegations refer to the following University Procedures:
For reporting and complaint procedures related to filing a complaint against a student based on sexual harassment, sexual assault/misconduct, dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking, please see University Procedure 1.2.2.
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Tom Mock is the Customer Enablement Lead at RStudio, helping RStudio’s customers successfully leverage open source data science tooling and RStudio’s Professional products. He is the founder of #TidyTuesday, a weekly data science and data visualization learning community project. He maintains themockup.blog, a technical blog highlighting use cases and how-tos with R and the tidyverse. You can find him engaging with the community on Twitter at @thomas_mock. When he’s not at his computer, he’s seeking out the best churros or playing with his Boston Terrier, Howard.
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Welcome back to the PolicyViz podcast. I am your host, Jon Schwabish. I hope you’re having a nice holiday season, you’re staying healthy and staying safe. On this week’s episode of the podcast, I am very happy to have Tom Mock join me. Tom works at RStudio, and is obviously very active in the R community. He runs the TidyTuesday experiment or program or initiative, whatever you’d like to call it, and you should check that out, we’re going to talk about it in this week’s episode of the show. Tom has also developed the GT package in R, the grammar of tables, which if you know anything about my work, and hear about my writing, you know, I’m more and more interested in how we design really good tables. And having a package, a library in R that enables us to do so in better and easier ways, is, I think, a huge step, a huge advantage for those of us who are working with data and trying to communicate data. So we talk about all those sorts of different things that Tom does at RStudio, we talk all about these different programs and initiatives. And, of course, we talk in depth about grammar of tables. So I hope you’ll enjoy this conversation with Tom Mock, and here is that discussion.
Jon Schwabish: Hey Tom, good morning. Welcome to the show. How are things?
Tom Mock: Good morning. It’s good to be here, things are great. Just got back from a little break at RStudio, we had the weekend off and a couple extra days for Labor Day.
JS: Nice. And doing anything super exciting, super fun – I know you’re not like going into indoor stadiums and rock concerts and whatever, but…?
TM: Yeah, a few days off was nice. We moved recently, so getting settled into our new home and enjoying the outdoors has been a big chunk of our time.
JS: Lovely. Well, thanks for coming on. I’m really excited to have you on the show. I think we did a conversation a little over a year ago. I think it’s sort of the beginning of the pandemic where we talked about a lot of the work that you’re doing at RStudio. You did a talk for some folks over at Urban about the tables work that you’ve been doing so. So it’s been great, and I’m excited to share all the work that you’ve been doing with folks who are listening. So I want to start talking about your work at RStudio. I know you recently got a big promotion, you’re a big guy now. And then, I want to talk about, I guess, three main things. So you work at RStudio. You’re tight managing, organizing, facilitating TidyTuesday, and then also the grammar of tables stuff, which, as far as I know, is the only place someone’s actually thinking about doing tables better, which is kind of amazing if you think about it. So that sort of sets everybody up. Why don’t we start about RStudio, so how long you’ve been there, what’s your trajectory been like, what have you been working on?
TM: Yeah, absolutely. So I joined RStudio at the middle of 2018, straight out of a PhD school, started on their customer success team, which was mainly like working with existing clients and helping them use our software and open source data science tooling. As you kind of mentioned and alluded to, I just got a promotion to be customer enablement lead, so still kind of working the same space, but just thinking at a bigger scale, rather than working with individual customers, the entire customer base. So think about documentation, some of the training we do, some of the educational initiatives, just overall, like, what is the user experience, and kind of how are they learning how to use our software and external software as well.
JS: Right. And just for folks who don’t know, how big is RStudio, like, how many people you have there?
TM: Yeah, I think we’re at like 180 people now. So some people call it a startup, some people call it a tenured company, been around for a little over 10 years at this point. So been around for quite a while, so a good company that I’ve enjoyed working with for three years, yeah.
JS: That’s great. That’s awesome. So let’s start with TidyTuesday. These community projects are really valuable, I think, to lots of different people for lots of different reasons. So maybe we could start by having you talk a little bit about the background of it, and then maybe you’re like, I was going to say day to day, but it’s really like week to week, like, how do you manage it, how do you think about organizing the whole thing.
TM: Totally, yeah. So TidyTuesday was kind of born out of something I was doing, something I was working with in grad school. So I joined what was called the R for Data Science online learning community midway through I think 2017. I was trying to learn R, I was trying to bump up my skills in R as a statistical programming language and as a data science skill set. So learning with the community, and part of that was we wanted to connect mentors with learners, how do you do that in a scaled fashion, otherwise you have a hundred learners with one mentor and it doesn’t work. So the idea was like, okay, well, we can do like a weekly project. There’s other things doing that, there’s things like Makeover Monday, that’s great; there’s Workout Wednesday; there’s other kind of storytelling with data community. People were already doing a similar idea, but a lot of those were kind of emphasized around specific software suites. So there wasn’t really one that was like, oh, here’s how to learn with R or learn with open source data science. So we were like, okay, we can do a similar thing, new data, make sure that there’s an article associated with it, so you get the context, and they are able to learn us the everyone’s code. So launched it in April of 2018, and kind of gangbusters since then, it’s been, I don’t really know how many thousands of people, but around 120 or so people contribute every week, and multiply that out by three and a half years, and that’s what you’re going to get out to.
JS: Yeah.
TM: So yeah, that was kind of the big game. As far as like organizing it and growing, a lot of it was kind of natural in terms of my role has really been aggregating the data, cleaning it up, providing the script to bring it in, and then just saying, have at it, it’s pretty open ended intentionally. And what the community has done is built on top of it, to extend it further, like aggravating the visualizations people have created, aggregating the code, doing their own screencast, doing live video and podcasts, there’s all sorts of things that are built out of it that aren’t my work, just the community building on top of it.
JS: Right. So when you think about this idea of teaching people R at scale, do you think this is the way to do it, is it community? I mean, I will say, and I’ve written about this in the past, like, I have an Urban colleague who’s really great at R, and I said, Aaron, can you sit down with me for two days and just teach – because I had tried some of those massive online courses like Andrew Tran with the Post had done one, it was great; but like three days in, I’m like, I don’t have time for this. So what’s your take on that?
TM: No, I mean, my persona that I’m teaching to primarily is a business professional, someone working, someone not in an academic setting. So that’s a different persona than, say, a college student, a high school student or even a grad student. You don’t have the time to dedicate, oh yeah, from nine to five, I’m learning, or, from nine to noon, I’m learning, and 12 to five, I’m doing my lab work. It’s just a different persona. So for me, I think that focusing on just in time learning, better documentation, project based learning is really effective for that user population, because it’s solving the problem they want to solve, but not necessarily, like, you think of like this random adult trying to learn a project, they’re not saying like, okay, I’m ready to learn all of data science using R; they’re like, I have an Excel file that’s too big to open with Excel, and I need to graph it or something like that. Or, I got a statistical suite I need to run, and I don’t know how to run it with SPSS or SYSTAT or whatever. So I need to use R that has everything built in. So aiming at that, it’s like having something like TidyTuesday, where specifically for graphing or exploratory data analysis, here is a moment in time with a dataset that might be interesting to you, and there’s a hundred examples of how people attack the problem. That’s the core idea. It’s a project. It’s scoped. And it has hopefully useful data. And over time, there’s different datasets that people might contribute to, so some people have biology, some people have sports, some people have political data. Everyone’s not going to be interested every week, but over time, you have this giant mass of data with different scripts and then analyzing it. So I think that it’s been really effective for people to kind of jump in and jump out when they need to.
JS: Yeah. So, I mean, when you think about providing these datasets, are you thinking about, yeah, how can I pick as broad a spectrum from week to week that I can so that, yeah, if I’m not interested in sports, and so – sort of a weird question, I guess – so do you think people, when they’re trying to learn this are like, I’m not interested in sports, so if it’s TidyTuesday week one in September, and it’s on sports, I’m just not going to do it, even though it’s really not the point, the content is kind of not the point. So how do you think about mixing, matching, all of that?
TM: Yeah, I think for me, honestly, there’s a lot of people, and what I ask the community to do a lot is submit issues on the TidyTuesday repo for here’s a dataset I want to see. So a lot of the time while I’m doing the legwork of cleaning it up, aggregating it, and throwing it into the repository, someone else has really chosen the data. So I do kind of pull in like, here’s something someone else’s suggested. As far as what you’re saying though, like, yeah, there’s plenty of times where I see people come in, like, I know nothing about – we’ll use sports for example – I know nothing about the NFL, but explore the data, found this cool thing, and here’s the technique I learned. Like you said, the data is really secondary to it. For some people though, they need that motivation to even engage. They’re like, I’m not learning R for R, I’m not learning open source data science for open source data science, I’m interested in this, and I want to learn more about how to do that.
JS: Right. So now it is interesting that you’re approaching it, I mean, makes sense, you’re approaching it from like the DataViz perspective. So Hadley Wickham’s book, which is like, I’m looking at it, it sits on my desk – Hadley and Garrett’s book starts, like, chapter one is on DataViz. It doesn’t start with data cleaning, doesn’t start with regression analysis. So what’s your take on why that’s – I don’t want to say a better approach, but, well, I guess, maybe I’ll ask, like, do you think that’s a better approach, and if so, why do you think starting with the graphing is a better approach?
TM: Yeah, totally. I am 100% going to steal a concept that I 100% agree with from Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, who’s an education person here at RStudio. She has an entire course setup, basically called have your cake and eat it too, it’s one of those lines, which is start with DataViz. And the reason why is that if you’re teaching someone how to do something with R, you can talk to them about lists and vectors and objects and memory computation, and someone’s falling asleep. Or you can start with, here’s you in four lines of code, creating a beautiful data visualization. That’s the hook. Hook them in, and then once they’re very excited about that, and they realize, I can be very powerful very quickly, build up the knowledge around that. They still probably need to know about list and object types and vectors and characters. But starting from that, from day one, you’re going to lose a whole cohort of people if you’re doing something, especially at like scale.
JS: Yeah. So we know that, like the value or the popularity of DataViz has grown over the last few years, so do you think – I remember learning in my younger days, learning SaaS and Stata in Fortran, which you can’t graph. But like learning SaaS and Stata, and you didn’t start with the graphs. Do you feel like the change in the tools, starting with DataViz is part of the growing popularity of DataViz, or has this sort of perception, like, let’s start, just what you said it, let’s start with something where I can get something visible right away has changed the way people view DataViz, and that like, where’s the direction running, or, is it just like a huge network mess that we don’t know?
TM: I’m going to punt and say it’s a huge network mess, but I’ll still give an answer, in terms of what I think everything interacts. But if you think about it, a lot of the older books from like the kind of bibles of DataViz, about here’s how to not do things the way that the defaults tell you to do it. Because they’re telling you to do 3D scatter plots, or 3D bar charts, and the defaults are terrible. Nowadays, if you think of ggplot or even Excel and other things, the defaults are actually pretty good in terms of like, they start from a baseline of like, the defaults are okay, you’re not breaking massive rules just by not editing it further. And other tooling is created that have just been more user friendly, in terms of you didn’t have to learn 99% of how to do DataViz before you could make a good thing. You can even from day one, get started and make something beautiful, make something interesting. So in my opinion, maybe not necessarily that people are teaching DataViz first, but it has become more approachable with better tooling, better defaults, and just more people thinking about it from kind of a top-down approach.
JS: Yeah. I want to ask one more question on this learning before we go to tables. So what would your advice be to someone who wants to learn R, but they see your work, and they see lots of other people doing great work, and I can’t think of a few off the top of my head, but they’re seeing all this great stuff built in R, whatever tool that they want to learn, and they’re a little overwhelmed by saying, well, I’m never going to be able to make that thing. So what do you say to those people who might feel a little overwhelmed before going into learning a tool?
TM: Yeah. So part of all of DataViz and why I think maybe this is even to the previous question, why it has been so successful is the community building around it. Regardless of what tool you’re using, there is a community that’s very excited about helping people get into it. Obviously, the R community is one I’m most deeply embedded in, I love it. But every tool has an ecosystem around it. In terms of people that get intimidated seeing good work, I hear you, in terms of like, I was there a few years back, I was like, man, I can’t make this, I feel like I’m just spinning my wheels. Part of what I’ve actually talked to actual people doing TidyTuesday about is they’re actually just doing it locally, they’re not even submitting their graphs on Twitter. So they’re still able to borrow from the community, they’re still able to like, oh, maybe if I can join and talk to this person, I can learn something. But they don’t have to take that next step of someone else can see my work. That’s often stressful for people. I think there’s huge value in sharing your work, because then you can get useful feedback; but it takes time for you to build up confidence to get there, and that’s okay. So I guess, my suggestion to new learners is, if you want to engage with something, try and find a community. For R there’s like the R for DS, an online learning community. There’s things like the rstats hashtag on Twitter. And even within your local community, whether it’s a job or a university setting or something like that, I guarantee you, there’s someone using R or another tool that you’re trying to learn.
JS: Yeah, I think that’s a great piece of advice, I mean, find those people that are right next door to you. Well, not anymore, but virtually, right next door to you. Okay, so I want to turn our attention to tables, because I’m so excited about the GT package. It’s like, I mean, just the concept of… Okay, this is what I wanted to ask. So I want you to describe GT for folks, and then, if you could, tell me about the philosophy behind it, because people have asked me to do something similar in Excel, like, oh, come up with templates. And my answer has always been, it’s just impossible, because there’s merged cells in different places, and tables can have infinite sort of dimensions and directions. And so, I’m fascinated by how you approach that from a sort of template and code base.
TM: Totally. Yeah, so GT is an R package standing for the grammar of tables. The grammar idea is borrowing from the idea of a grammar of graphics, or ggplot being an implementation of a grammar of graphics. So GT is an implementation and a defining of a grammar of tables. So what that means is that you can still build the exact same tables you’re used to, but you now have specific functions and specific language to apply changes to all the different areas of the table. This is not necessarily a new concept. I’ve seen older versions of defining the parts of a table. I know you’ve even done work about like, here’s the parts of a table. Stephen Few, back in the, I can’t remember his book, Show Me the Numbers has a definition of the parts of a GT table – or not GT, part of a table. But I think what this is, is actually an implementation of using those nouns and verbs to actually create the table, as opposed to just describing it. That was pretty long winded, but what this does is gives you an interface or a human interface to be able to create said table programmatically, so you can define all the different components, you can use data to change all those different things based on the actual values, which is very, very powerful.
JS: Yeah. And does it work, I mean, I’ll ask the – I mean, I’ve tinkered with it, so I’ll ask the questions I’m sure other people are thinking about right now listening this, so like, okay. So does it work, similarly to ggplot in terms of esthetics, and in terms of all the pieces that you sort of – so one of the reasons I like R is sort of I feel like it’s plug and play, you sort of have the fill command, the color command, like, is it worth the philosophy in the same way?
TM: Yeah. So I will say that at a very detailed level, we’ll go way back then come forward. ggplot basically creates a massive list of different things that are being changed. And so, you might think of, like you’re saying esthetics, like the x axis is equal to this, and it’s these values. GT works in a very similar way, where it says, the cell bodies or the table body, the actual values, here are their different labels in a list, here are the actual values in a list, here is the formatting in a list applied to those values. So if you look at it, it’s literally just lists on lists on lists. That’s really hard to write though. So what it provides is, like you were saying, instead of esthetics, you have things like cells body, which would be like rather than mapping the esthetic of axis X equals some variable, map the table body to these cells. So it’s going to build the table up, but then you can actually apply your esthetics or whatever, according to the different components. So cell body, column spanners, column labels, the title, subtitle, the stubhead, you can define all those different parts either programmatically or manually.
JS: I see. So if you have, let’s just say, you’re going to have data by state, let’s just say – let’s say, a percent of the population of men, percent of the population of women in each of those states you’ve got, and then if you wanted to have a spanner across that said gender or something like that, you would define that through the spanner column component.
TM: Exactly. You would say, basically, the function would be something along the lines of spanner column label, and you would say, I want to apply it on column of gender and/or male and female in this case, or however you want to put it or non-binary. And then that would create the column label as a spanner or column spanner across those two labels.
JS: Right. So now, when you think about people using GT in their work, how are you thinking about them bringing in the data into R – are you thinking about, like, oh I have this table in Excel, and it’s sort of all formatted, but I want to bring it into R, because that’s my preferred toolkit, or it’s easier to update, or now that once I have it in R, then I can build all these other graphs out of it, and so, in that case, when you have the spanner columns, or you have these grouped rows or whatever, how do you think about working from one input into GT?
TM: Yeah, so GT accepts basically a data frame, which in R is essentially a tabular data format. So GT doesn’t care how that data gets in, it could be pulled from a web API, it could be scraped from HTML, it could be brought in from Excel, it could be brought in from SQL on the database. All it has to be is in a tabular format in terms of in a data frame or a table in R. Then it can just be passed into GT, and it knows what to do with it. Once the tabular format is inside GT, then you’ve created a GT object, so you can make edits to it. And when it prints, it actually prints the table, it doesn’t print the data, it prints the formatted table every time.
JS: Right. Okay, so where do you see GT going, so like as with ggplot, there’s always, I mean, all packages, there’s always these updates, so where do you see GT going over the next, whatever year, two, 10, 12?
TM: Totally. I think the two good things here are right now we have essentially a pure grammar of tables implementation, and when I say we, I am not a developer of GT, so I’m going to give credit to Rich Iannone, Joe Cheng, Barret Schloerke who are the actual developers creating it. I post issues and things to the repository, but credit to them for maintaining and authoring the package. So what they’re doing is creating this rich API, and people can build on top of that. So if you think of something like the GT summary package, that takes a statistical model or counts and things, using the GTA interface, but creates a different table. So it’s a wrapper on top of it. And that’s what ggplot does is ggplot provides you a rich interface, you can build beautiful things with just ggplot, but there’s dozens of packages built on top of ggplot to do more, because there is an API you can use to do that.
JS: Right.
TM: The one thing that I am an author of is I just built out the GT extras package over this long weekend. What that is, is essentially removing some of the boilerplate and summarizing down some of those functions. So you think of like, I want to add a bar plot to all of these cells that is relative to the cell values. I can do that with nine lines of code in GT, which is appropriate. You’re saying, I want to apply it to this column for all these cells, and here’s the actual function to create the bar plot. Or, in a higher level package like GT extras, you can say, apply bar plot, and it just does all that boilerplate for you. You just say like, here’s the column I want to apply it to, and it passes a palette, it passes all the code to build the table, it passes all the code to build out the bar plot as well.
JS: Got you. So just so we’re all on the same page, on your long weekend where RStudio gave you extra time off, you built the GT extra. So I think that’s dedication to a craft that I can very much appreciate.
TM: I don’t know where I got, like the pandemic for me, my self-care, for some reason has been, let’s dive as deep as possible into the grammar of tables. So for literally, since about April of 2020 to now, I’ve just been slamming mental energy into the tables because can’t go to restaurants, can’t go bars, can’t go to sports games. So I do a lot of that on random days, and it’s been working. I’m happy doing it, so it is a good form of self-care.
JS: Yeah, that’s great. I want to ask you two more questions about GT. So is it possible now, or do you foresee it becoming possible to add visualizations into the tables, and specifically, I’m thinking about sparklines which I know you can do in ggplot, do you see that as part of GT, and also Excel has little data bars that you can build right into tables. So do you see that as part of it?
TM: Oh man, this is like the softball right over home plate for me. So GT extras has four plotting functions. It has a plotting function for horizontal bar plots. It has a plotting function for a percent of total. So like three, like, zero to 100, and there’s like three bars within there making up the portions. It has sparklines. And for your little stacked points, there’s a win/loss plot, which is styled after the Guardian; they do like a vertical pillar that’s green for a win in a sports game, and a vertical pillar that’s red and slightly subset as a loss, and a tie would be a gray dot in the middle. So all of those are built into GT extras. Now, that being said, you can still do all that with GT, because that’s what I’m doing is just writing code on top of GT. So GT for any row can accept a ggplot or any image. So if you can create an image, you can post it in line. And so, that could be SVG or PNG, whatever you want to create, but GT alone, oh absolutely, it can build anything into there.
JS: That’s awesome. And just so people know, we didn’t set that up beforehand. That’s softball was not predestined. I want us one last question for you. So like tables seem to get – not seem, they do get less attention in the DataViz field. And you mentioned, Stephen Few’s book has a really long chapter on tables. I have a chapter on tables in my book.
TM: A great chapter.
JS: Oh thanks. So is it just because tables aren’t as sexy as like a dot plot, or, we use so many tables all the time, like, we use tables before we even get to the graphs a lot of the time.
TM: Absolutely. I think that my hot take is that people are actually creating tables with a lot of the DataViz they use. If you think of like a horizontal bar plot, that is just a table that happens to have a horizontal plot inside of it. And you can do similar things where a table can have six values and plots a seventh. And that’s very, very valuable for here is the data visualization showing the trend or the overall shape of the data, but here are the raw values showing lookup values that you can also associate. It’s really, really hard with an actual graphic to encode five or six different things. You start doing color, shape, opacity, how dark the color is, how light the color is, you can get in these spots where it’s really hard to interpret. That’s really easy for a table to do. You just put the numbers in there. But I know we’re at time here, but the idea is that with a table, people haven’t spent as much mental energy into making good ones. So all people see, you’re like, oh god, I don’t want to show that, that’s a terrible table. If you apply some more techniques like a better data-ink ratio, if you use things like your book in terms of 10 table rules or rules from Stephen Few’s book, you can actually make beautiful tables and get tables that people want to see.
JS: Yeah, I think that’s great. I mean, I’m really excited about it to see how people use it, and I’m excited for – I don’t think I’ve seen it yet, but I’m excited for the first TidyTuesday, that’s like, this is going to be – we’re going to do a table one for TidyTuesday this week, and just see how many people get mad that they have to make a table instead of a fun graph or something.
TM: So we’ve done a – we haven’t done a core table one, but there’s been a lot of beautiful tables through TidyTuesday, so I always appreciate seeing them pop up.
JS: That’s great. Well, Tom, thanks so much for coming on the show. Congrats on the promotion and congrats on the GT package, it’s really great, I’m excited about it. So thanks a lot. I appreciate it.
TM: Thanks for having me, Jon. Have a great week.
And thanks for everyone for tuning into this week’s episode of the show. I hope you learned a lot about RStudio and about Tom’s work, and I hope you’ll go check out the GT package in R, it’s a great addition to your R toolkit to make better and more effective tables. So enjoy your holiday season, another episode or two coming up before the end of the calendar year. So until next time, this has been the PolicyViz podcast. Thanks so much for listening.
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Whose Line is it Anyway? – New Season Previews
It’s finally here! The new season of Whose Line is it Anyway premieres tonight on The CW! I’m a tad concerned that there will be a ton of competition in the timeslot but I hope The CW recognizes a fantastic show when they see one and give it a chance.
The CW have released a handful of previews to help fans get pumped for the new season. The new season will feature guest stars Kevin Mchale, Candice Accola, Maggie Q, Lauren Cohan, and more.
Don’t forget to tune in to the CW tonight at 8pm eastern for an hour of back to back new episodes of Whose Line is it Anyway?
Check out all the previews here:
Whose Line is it Anyway? – Guest Stars – Preview
I am so, so, so, so excited for the return of Whose Line is it Anyway. From the looks of this preview, they just may have been able to recreate the magic from the original series. In the first preview, we see the gang performing some of our favorite, hilarious game sketches. In the second, we see a preview of the guest stars in the upcoming new season. Glee favorite Kevin Mchale will be making an appearance.
The return of Whose Line is it Anyway? premieres on The CW Tuesday, July 16th.
Check out the previews here:
Kevin Mchale Meets One Direction
Wow! Two of our favorite things! Glee star Kevin Mchale took his niece and nephew to have a fantastic time at the Kids’ Choice Awards last night. While he was there, he enjoyed the British Invasion on the orange carpet. Among the celebrities in attendance, some of the most hyped appearances were by England’s One Direction. Kevin tweeted his excitement to meet the band and even joked he’d love to be the 6th member.
Check out the pic!
Kevin Mchale Appears on Live With Kelly
Kevin Mchale appeared on Live! With Kelly this morning to promote this season of Glee. Kim Kardashian was the co-host and seemed to really love Glee, Kevin, and his stripes. Kevin is sly about confirming the rumors of him getting out of his wheelchair to dance on an upcoming episode of Glee (hint: They’re true!) and spoke about his time in Brazil celebrating New Years.
Glee – Moves Like Jagger – Full Performance Video
Video of the cast of Glee performing Moves Like Jagger has leaked. I was really looking forward to this performance. Don’t get me wrong. Kevin Mchale still slays as always and Harry Shum Jr. dances amazingly. There’s just something specific about this performance that’s ruining it for me. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe it’s Schue twirling around the stage like a ballerina in his Justin Timberlake tank top. It could be that.
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Interview: Tom D’Angora Talks ‘A Musical About Star Wars’ – Exclusive
A Musical About Star Wars
2019 is a big year for Star Wars fans. A new movie, Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge…and a musical? A Musical About Star Wars is set to make a splash off-Broadway at Theatre Row on May 4, and it’s sure to be a meta-celebration of all that fans love from the iconic franchise.
The production is the brainchild of Tom D’Angora and stars Taylor Crousore, Scott Richard Foster, and Emily McNamara. We spoke with Tom about his inspiration behind the re-imagining of one of the greatest movies of all time and what fans can expect from this musical interpretation.
Read on for our exclusive interview with Tom D’Angora of A Musical About Star Wars below:
Interview: Star Trek Beyond’s Jason Bell on Stunts, Hot Sauce, & the Blues – Exclusive
Credit: Jason Bell/MPR
This week, I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Jason Bell of Star Trek Beyond. A combat veteran who served in Afghanistan, he has had roles in shows like Arrow, The Flash, Smallville, and Once Upon A Time. He’s been an unsung double in many of your favorite movies as well, such as Man of Steel, Godzilla, X-Men Days of Future Past, and Deadpool. In addition to excelling at stunt work, he’s also a certified PADI diver, and he plays delta blues guitar in his spare time. You can currently see him as Captain Kirk’s right-hand man in Star Trek Beyond, out July 22. Check out the hilariously entertaining interview after the jump!
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Author: Joe Kates
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Honoring an Aviation Legend Bob Gilliland
Family and close friends turned out recently to honor the life of legendary aviation test pilot Robert J. “Bob” Gilliland. The private event was held on September 28th 2019 at the March Field...
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On Guard at Reno
The National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada were held September 11th to the 15th. The event obviously features many highly modified race aircraft, along with civil and military flight displays. As...
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Kirtland Air Force Base Air & Space Fiesta 2019
Kirtland Air Force Base is situated on the southeast side of Albuquerque New Mexico’s largest airport. The base sits across the runways from the civilian terminal and actually shares the same runways with the...
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(All photos via Joe Kates) Shock and Awe!!!!!!!!! I am in total shock having received the news of the loss of my good friend and “brother” Mark Hrutkay. At the same time I...
Business Aviation Stands With Las Vegas 2017
NBAA’s annual Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) always represents the gathering of a large and diverse community to demonstrate the industry’s strength, as well as its resilience against numerous challenges. That theme carried...
B-29 Superfortress: An Aircraft Ahead of its Time at the Right Time!
By George A. Haloulakos, MBA, CFA The Business Thinker – The Knowledge Magazine; Aug 6/9, 2017; www.businessthinker.com George A. Haloulakos, CFA, is a university instructor, author and entrepreneur [DBA Spartan Research and Consulting]. His...
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Don’t Let them Stop Your Air Show!
URGENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ****Please note that we are asking for signatures ONLY and NOT DONATIONS. If the option pops up, please skip. A lawsuit has been brought against the Planes of Fame Air Museum by...
Glendale Airport 30 years strong
The weather is changing along with the length of the day… this can only mean the holiday season is upon us. For aviation photojournalists, this also means that their air show and aviation event world, as...
ASV Airshow of the Year Award” goes to the Breitling Huntington Beach Airshow
Our Partner site Airshowvid .com has awarded their 2016 “Airshow of the Year Award”, for the most unique airshow in 2016. This honor goes to the Breitling Huntington Beach Airshow for unique location, a...
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BY GEN. MERRILL A. (TONY) MCPEAK , Del Rio could be the movie set of a West Texas border town. It’s windy, and the weather tends toward seasonal extremes. A large U.S. Air Force...
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We mourn the passing of Robert A. “Bob” Hoover, “The Greatest Stick and Rudder Man Who Ever Lived.”
(Photo: Smithsonian/National Air & Space Museum) One of the greatest pilots in aviation history passed into the eternal Wild Blue Yonder on October 25, 2016, R. A. “Bob” Hoover. The ninety-four year old Hoover passed away...
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Dr Sky and Photorecon Interview Aviation Legend Robert “Bob” Gilliland
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Newsletter: The Post-Industrialist
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Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Euro zone malaise, Islamabad protests, Walmart earnings, salmon cannons
Published August 14, 2014 This article is more than 2 years old.
Can Israel and Hamas hold their fire? The two sides reached a deal on Wednesday for a new five-day truce, but rockets were launched from Gaza shortly before the previous ceasefire expired, and Israel retaliated with air strikes.
JC Penney and Walmart release earnings. JC Penney reported a 6% rise in sales in the previous quarter after a failed attempt to become more upscale, but it may not do so well this time. Walmart has suffered five straight quarters of same-store sales declines.
Major hedge funds and investment firms report holdings. Expect reports from Berkshire Hathaway, Greenlight Capital, Third Point LLC, and Pershing Square Capital Management, whose founder, Bill Ackman, wants to take his $15 billion fund public.
Pakistan’s capital is on lockdown. Opposition leaders Imran Khan and Tahir-ul-Qadri are leading a million-person march on Islamabad to demand the resignation of prime minister Nawaz Sharif. They claim the May 2013 elections were rigged, and a confrontation between police and protestors looks likely.
Another day of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Violence erupted for a fourth straight night on Wednesday after the killing of an unarmed black youth by police. Some protesters threw Molotov cocktails at militarized riot police, who used tear gas on the irate crowd.
The euro zone ground to a halt. Second-quarter GDP growth was flat as the German economy shrank and French growth was stagnant, in what analysts at BNP Paribas dubbed a “double ouch” for the monetary union.
A rate cut in South Korea. The central bank cut its benchmark rate to 2.25% from 2.5%, lowering borrowing costs to lend a hand to the government’s stimulus policies.
Audi is paying up in China. An influential Chinese newspaper reported that the German automaker will be fined $40 million for violating anti-monopoly laws, part of Beijing’s ongoing crackdown on foreign companies.
The world’s biggest PC maker got bigger. China’s Lenovo Group beat estimates with a 23% rise in profit in the three months to June.
China Mobile’s profits fell a bit. But the world’s largest mobile carrier by subscribers still posted a better-than-expected net income of $5.3 billion. The company is building the world’s biggest 4G network in hopes of boosting data revenues, as its text-message business loses out to free apps like WeChat.
GE’s appliance sale advanced. Stockholm-based Electrolux and crowd-sourced manufacturer Quirky are both looking to buy GE’s home appliance division, which could fetch as much as $2 billion.
The US said a Yazidi rescue mission probably won’t be necessary. The Pentagon was considering an operation to evacuate refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, but US airstrikes and Kurdish fighters have broken the ISIL siege. Separately, France said it would start arming Kurdish forces.
Bobby Ghosh provides a short history of the terrorists who call themselves the “Islamic State.” “The group began over two decades ago as a fervid fantasy in the mind of a Jordanian named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A onetime street thug, he arrived in Afghanistan as a mujahideen wannabe in 1989, a year too late to fight the Soviet Union. He went back home to Jordan, and remained a fringe figure in the international violent ‘jihad’ for much of the following decade. He returned to Afghanistan to set up a training camp for terrorists, and met Osama bin Laden in 1999, but chose not to join al-Qaeda.” Read more here.
Social media has given black people in Ferguson a voice. The revolution isn’t televised; it’s Vined.
All the myths are fit to print. Front page stories fit into seven archetypes to help readers understand complex topics.
Politeness pays endless dividends. When people tell you their jobs, say, “Wow. That sounds hard.”
Secure buildings don’t have to be ugly. US embassies could have both high security and good design.
Using experimental Ebola drugs is wrong. Even if there were enough doses, it would slow progress toward finding a cure.
A salmon cannon can launch 40 fish a minute. It helps them circumvent dams as they migrate upstream.
Your selfies have been commodified. New software tries to sell you products based on what’s in the background.
The last of Madonna’s “Vogue” icons is dead. Lauren Bacall had been the sole survivor; she wanted to be reincarnated as fellow “Vogue” legend Fred Astaire.
Daimler employees rest easy on vacation. They can opt to have all incoming emails deleted while they’re at the beach.
Dance-happy millennials are saving the music industry. Drugs are often involved.
Our best wishes for a productive day. Please send any news, comments, seafood projectile devices, and EDM that sounds good even if you’re sober to hi@qz.com. You can follow us on Twitter here for updates throughout the day.
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Angelica Aberia
Clinical Research Coordinator Associate, Medicine - Med/Immunology & Rheumatology
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Fellowship Program Coordinator, Medicine - Med/Immunology & Rheumatology
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Assistant Professor of Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology)
BioDr. Baker is the Clinical Chief in the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology at Stanford University. He received his bachelor's degree from Pomona College, his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and his master's degree in Epidemiology and Clinical Research from Stanford University. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and his Rheumatology fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Baker has established a clinical research program that is focused on clinical trials, epidemiological studies, and bench-to-bedside translational research. He has designed and led investigator-initiated clinical trials with a focus on sarcoidosis, IgG4-related disease, and Sjogren’s syndrome. In addition, he is the Co-Director of the Stanford Multidisciplinary Sarcoidosis Program and collaborates with other team members to advance sarcoidosis clinical care and research.
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BioAlvina Chu, MD, is an adjunct clinical faculty member within the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology. She has practiced rheumatology for more than 10 years, specializing in treatment of a wide range of chronic inflammatory conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, vasculitis, and gout.
She holds a longstanding scientific interest in immunology, especially the role of B-cell signaling mechanisms in lupus and other autoimmune diseases.
In addition to taking care of patients in clinic and in the hospital, Dr. Chu enjoys teaching and mentoring fellows, residents, and medical students.
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Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests focus on all aspects of systemic sclerosis. I am currently involved in clinical, translational, and epidemiologic research in these areas, and dedicate a substantial portion of my research time to investigator-initiated and multi-center clinical trials of novel therapeutics for the treatment of systemic sclerosis.
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The generation that succeeded
Mario Gioia, O Estado de Sao Paulo Newspaper, April 15, 2018
Rodolpho Parigi, Ana Elisa Egreja and Regina Parra are three of the talents appointed ten years ago
As we enter the main exhibition hall of the Casa Triangulo, there is a certain futuristic tone to the air. “I think all works have a sci-fi feel,” says São Paulo artist Rodolpho Parigi, who, at the age of 40, makes his first solo exhibition in his new gallery after a decade of being represented by the dealer Nara Roesler.
“Ten years is a lot. I needed new relationships, new challenges” he says, a Darling from the São Paulo circuit and who, at the same time, can celebrate the ten years of bombastic apparition in the field, with other painter friends, in what became known as the 2000e8 collective. In a rare sequel, seven of them have featured prominently in both institutional exhibitions and galleries - Marcos Brias moved to Germany and devoted himself to literature.
“From the beginning, Rodolpho Parigi's painting is hard to describe. Between figurative and abstract, or both together, they are strident to the eye, with hyperactive, vibrant surfaces, defying any perspective and offering no rest to look at” writes Ivo Mesquita (former São Paulo Biennial and Pinacoteca do Estado), who signs the critical text on “Untitled,” Parigi's solo.
In the larger room, two large canvases dominate the space - La Danse, 2.90m x 5m, took five months of work at the Parigi studio in Aclimação. The other, The Song of Love, 2m x 5.56m, had a little less dedication, four months.
In both there are fragments, overlaps, unrecognizable figures, layers. And a lot of weirdness.
“These are two works with a lot of pictorial discussion. Dealing with oil, making backgrounds, not being satisfied with quick results, the influences of Picasso and De Chirico, among others, to start the composition” says the artist. “Now I'm at a stage where I am pleased with the results, which took longer” he says.
In addition to the large-scale paintings, there is a series of “guts” in which the artist explores a more flattened treatment of more “artificial” scale surfaces and colors, such as Violet Volumen; generously sized paper watercolors such as Kusama Wig; and more monochromatic pieces, such as the already exhibited Black Nanjing Bestiaire series, are placed in the smaller room of the Casa Triângulo.
“They are not a group in the sense that they have previously set goals, but friends and interlocutors seeking affinities and affirming differences,” wrote Paulo Pasta, the group's mentor at the time, in 2008. Former Faap painting teacher helped put the route of the market and the cultural centers back, with force, the contemporary painting. “I can only say that I am very proud of everyone. They turned out to be serious professionals, very competent and talented artists, in fact becoming the new and most expressive generation of painters” says Pasta today.
“It was not a collective like others, shared authorship, etc. We came together to show the work, we were college friends” says Rodrigo Bivar, 37, who will have next month a new solo show at the Galeria Millan. Bivar has changed a great deal from the early years and today opts for abstraction. “It's a more direct, less narrative, and even slightly humorous painting that was at the beginning of my production.”
Regina Parra, 37, is perhaps the one with a more multidisciplinary production, with video and three-dimensional works, among other media. “Even in my early work, I already pointed to a conversation with other languages. I think I've always doubted the idea of purity in painting (or any other language). ”
Regina and Parigi coordinate a study group exclusively for painting, with 30 participants. “It has renewed me a lot and been essential,” says Parigi. “It is a constant exercise of questioning and provocation. When we raise questions about student work, part of that question turns out to be for ourselves ” says Regina, an artist represented by Galeria Millan.
For Bruno Dunley, 33, represented by Nara Roesler, the current moment is optimistic. “Painting in São Paulo in 2018 is more plural and viewed with more vitality, perhaps precisely because there are more people painting. Internet and Instagram are also phenomena and tools that greatly influence all this painting” he says.
Ana Elisa Egreja, 34, from Leme, may be considered the most “loyal” to painting. “My research has been very linear over the years. To this day I paint themes that mattered from the earliest screens, such as interiors and still lifes, ”she says. “But I got more and more demanding with the representation in painting. In my last works, I set up all the scenarios in the environments and then painted them”.
And Renata de Bonis, 33, continues to paint, but has been developing the production by objects and sculptures. Some of them can be seen at SP-Arte, at the Marilia Razuk gallery booth.
Copyright © 2022 Regina Parra
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Depolarization of a piezoelectric film under an alternating current field
Kin Wing Kwok, M. K. Cheung, H. L.W. Chan, C. L. Choy
In this article, we demonstrate that a sol-gel-derived niobium-doped lead zirconate titanate film can be depolarized by the application of alternating current (ac) fields of diminishing amplitude and we explain the phenomenon based on the concept of the Preisach model. The amplitude of the ac fields is decreased from 20 to 2 MV/m in ten steps. The observed piezoelectric coefficient of the film decreases after each ac field step. Depending on the initial polarization and the direction of the ac fields, the piezoelectric coefficient can decrease to a very small value indicating the complete depolarization of the film. Our results reveal the existence of a distribution of the switching fields in the microdomains (Preisach dipolar units), and that because of mutual interactions the magnitudes of the switch-up and switch-down fields for each microdomain are not necessarily the same. Our results also suggest that the sputter deposition of the top electrode can induce more "down-state" microdomains, thus giving rise to an initial polarization in the film. Because of interactions with other microdomains or other effects, part of these microdomains exhibit very high switching fields.
Kwok, K. W., Cheung, M. K., Chan, H. L. W., & Choy, C. L. (2007). Depolarization of a piezoelectric film under an alternating current field. Journal of Applied Physics, 101(5), [054108]. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2538288
Kwok, Kin Wing ; Cheung, M. K. ; Chan, H. L.W. ; Choy, C. L. / Depolarization of a piezoelectric film under an alternating current field. In: Journal of Applied Physics. 2007 ; Vol. 101, No. 5.
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MedShare Acquires Assets from International Biomedical Organization, IMEC, to Better Serve Communities in Need with State-of-the-Art Biomedical Equipment.
IMEC will transfer all tangible assets to MedShare, including $3 million in biomedical equipment that will be donated to strengthen health systems in medically underserved communities.
ATLANTA, January 2, 2019. – MedShare, a global humanitarian aid organization based in Atlanta, announced that it has acquired all tangible and intangible assets from IMEC, a charitable organization that connects biomedical equipment resources with under-resourced communities around the world. The acquisition of assets will allow MedShare to grow its global impact and advance its mission of improving the quality of life of people and our planet. The biomedical equipment assets acquired will essentially double MedShare’s equipment offerings and enable the organization to serve substantially more patients. Upon the completion of transfer of assets to MedShare, IMEC will dissolve as a legal entity, after transforming impoverished communities by providing equipment solutions for health care to physicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals since 1995.
The acquisition of assets from IMEC, based in North Andover, Massachusetts, will considerably increase MedShare’s biomedical equipment donation capabilities. Quality biomedical equipment is severely lacking in developing countries, where The Lancet estimates as much as 40% of all healthcare equipment is broken or otherwise inoperable. In addition to biomedical equipment, IMEC will transfer all tangible and intangible assets (including, among other items, equipment, intellectual property, and all the tangible assets located at IMEC’s warehouse) to MedShare.
The acquisition of IMEC’s assets enables MedShare to donate maternal and neonatal equipment that will save the lives of mothers and newborns who face life-threatening illnesses before, during, and after birth; emergency care equipment to improve the quality and efficiency of treatment provided in the aftermath of disasters; hospital beds and gurneys that will increase the capacity of health systems and provide comfortable care to patients; and diagnostic equipment that will support preventative care and keep communities healthy for years to come.
Charles Redding, CEO and President of MedShare, stated “The acquisition of these critical assets will enhance MedShare’s existing programs and strengthen our overall biomedical equipment offerings needed to help strengthen health systems in underserved communities around the world.” Ellen Oliver, CEO of IMEC, added, “The missions of MedShare and IMEC have always been strategically aligned. We are thrilled that the life-altering work we share will be continued through the good work of MedShare moving forward.”
Angeline Fife, the Chair of MedShare’s Board of Trustees, said, “We look forward to exploring the countless opportunities to increase the reach of MedShare’s global mission this acquisition of assets will create. MedShare’s ability to serve patients, communities, and healthcare providers will be dramatically enhanced, and the positive impact will be felt for years.”
In addition to tangible assets, MedShare will acquire IMEC’s intellectual property, including IMEC’s customized Salesforce project tracking software and the branding of IMEC’s Global Green surplus recovery program. The software will allow MedShare to improve the quality and accuracy of impact metrics and ensure the efficient and effective donation of biomedical equipment to improve healthcare globally. Utilizing Global Green branding will enhance MedShare’s surplus recovery efforts and reduce the burden of the US healthcare system on the environment.
MedShare’s mission is to improve the quality of life of people and our planet. The organization achieves this mission through four program areas: Maternal & Child Health, Primary Care, Infectious Disease Control & Prevention, and Disaster Relief. Each program is bolstered by the support of MedShare’s Biomedical Equipment Training & Repair Service, which provides state-of-the-art biomedical and diagnostic equipment, critical operational training, and equipment repairs in receiving communities. MedShare’s ongoing initiatives will significantly benefit from the acquisition of assets from IMEC. Impacted initiatives include Clean Birthing Kits, The Safe Birth Initiative, Medical Mission Team support, US Free & Safety Net Clinic outreach, and long-term disaster relief and recovery. The acquisition of assets will also position MedShare to better contribute to the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
About MedShare
MedShare is a 501c(3) humanitarian aid organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of people, communities, and our planet by sourcing and directly delivering surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities in need around the world. In 2018 MedShare has celebrated 20 years of impacting its local and global communities. For more information, please visit the organization’s website at www.medshare.org.
About IMEC
IMEC is a 501c(3) organization committed to transforming communities worldwide by providing sustainable equipment solutions for health care projects. Working in collaboration with other humanitarian organizations and individuals, IMEC has helped improve the lives of individuals in over 95 countries since 1995.
Contact: Caitlin Fischer, Marketing & Communications Manager
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Public Knowledge Applauds FCC for Adopting Tech Transition Framework
Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to adopt a framework guiding the technology transition from the legacy phone network to digital services, ensuring the transition is an upgrade for all Americans and not just an upgrade for some and a downgrade for others.
The following can be attributed to Harold Feld, Senior Vice President at Public Knowledge:
“Today’s FCC Order does more than protect the tens of millions of businesses and local governments, the thousands of public safety systems and the more than 50 million Americans still using the legacy copper phone network. Today’s action ensures that as telephone companies spend billions of dollars to upgrade our national communications network, it will genuinely be an upgrade for all Americans, not an upgrade for some and a downgrade for others.
“Perhaps even more importantly for the future, the new process for upgrading the old phone network provides a way for local communities to work with the phone companies to leverage our universal phone system as we build a universal broadband network. Today, 96% of Americans have access to some kind of voice service, but only 80% of Americans have home broadband. A hundred years ago, we made it our national policy to put a phone on every farm and in every home. By creating a process for the orderly phase out of the old voice system, the FCC has also provided a tool for ensuring that no one is left behind in the broadband revolution.”
Please view our tech transition issue page for more information or contact Communications Manager Shiva Stella for an interview.
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Cytochrome P450 1A-like proteins expressed in the islets of Langerhans and altered pancreatic beta-cell secretory responsiveness
J Clarke, Peter Flatt, CR Barnett
1 The cytochrome P450 (CYP) mixed-function oxidase system is widely distributed in body tissues and plays a key role in the metabolism of endogenous and exogenous compounds. Little attention has been paid to the expression of the system in the islets of Langerhans. The current study has examined the expression and potential role of the CYP1A family within the islets of Langerhans of control and 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC)-induced Wistar rats. 2 CYP1A expression within pancreatic slices and islets from 3-MC-induced and control rats demonstrated that CYP1A-like protein levels were induced by 3-MC pretreatment (25 mg kg(-1) day(-1); i.p. for 3 days). 3 Effects of 3-MC-induction on beta-cell secretory responsiveness were investigated by use of rat collagenase-isolated islets. Insulin release from control islets incubated with 3 mM glucose (basal) was 1.4 +/- 0.2 ng/islet h(-1) (mean +/- s.e.mean, n=7). Incubation with 16.7 mM glucose, 25 mM KCl, 100 mu M arachidonic acid, or 100 mu M carbachol caused a 4.4, 7.0, 4.0 and 4.2 fold, respectively, increase in insulin release (P
British Journal of Pharmacology
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Clarke, J., Flatt, P., & Barnett, CR. (1997). Cytochrome P450 1A-like proteins expressed in the islets of Langerhans and altered pancreatic beta-cell secretory responsiveness. British Journal of Pharmacology, 121(3), 389-394.
Clarke, J ; Flatt, Peter ; Barnett, CR. / Cytochrome P450 1A-like proteins expressed in the islets of Langerhans and altered pancreatic beta-cell secretory responsiveness. In: British Journal of Pharmacology. 1997 ; Vol. 121, No. 3. pp. 389-394.
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Signed and dated 'MA 08'
290 x 200 mm (11 1/2 x 8 in.)
Mark Adlington studied History of Art at the University in Edinburgh before taking a degree in Fine Art at the City and Guilds of London School of Art, between 1991 and 1994. There he won several prizes, notably the City and Guild Prize for Drawing in his final year. Best known as a painter and draughtsman of wild animals, Mark is based in London where he has a studio. He also has a studio in Lozre, in central France.
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Allscripts launches industry’s first machine learning EHR
Mobile-first and cloud-based, Avenel delivers community-based shared record, gets technology ‘out of the way’ of patient care
LAS VEGAS, March 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ:MDRX) unveiled its new electronic health record (EHR), Avenel™, at the annual HIMSS conference today. Mobile-first and cloud-based, Avenel creates a community-wide shared patient record, uses machine learning to reduce time for clinical documentation and is designed to work like an app instead of traditional software.
“This new solution is not simply an iteration of legacy systems,” said Jim Hewitt, EVP of Solutions Development for Allscripts. “It is an entirely new approach to the EHR. Our objective with Avenel is to get the technology out of the way, so clinicians can focus on the patient.”
Built on Microsoft Azure, Avenel streamlines workflows and “gets smarter with every use,” Hewitt noted. The solution integrates clinicians’ treatment patterns and provides reminders of preferences to facilitate faster documentation and decision making.
Avenel delivers a secure shared record for care coordination across the community, as well as actionable analytics at both the patient and population level – convenience and efficiency that ultimately enables clinicians to regain a balance between professional and personal priorities.
“We wanted to create a solution that drove a stake into the heart of clinicians’ frustrations about EHRs,” added Paul Black, CEO of Allscripts. “We spent a great deal of time meeting with clients and industry leaders to better understand why providers have been so unhappy with the first wave of EHRs. They want technology that works like they work, and thinks like they think.”
To that end, Allscripts invested significantly in the Avenel user interface, and created app-like functionality, featuring tablet-friendly swipe-and-tap navigation with easy-to-configure/customize dashboards. Clinicians reduce time dedicated to writing notes – which leads to greater efficiency and patient access.
Carlinville Area Hospital, located in Carlinville, Illinois, is currently using the Avenel solution. The 25-bed acute care hospital provides a wide range of inpatient, outpatient and emergency services including Cardiopulmonary, Imaging, Laboratory and Rehabilitative Services, such as Physical, Occupational, Speech and Aqua Therapy, as well as Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
“We are happy to partner with Allscripts in developing and launching Avenel,” said Kenneth G. Reid, FACHE President/CEO of Carlinville Area Hospital. “Healthcare is changing so fast – and organizations like ours would rather be on the ‘disrupter’ side of the conversation than on the ‘disrupted’ side. Avenel promises to help us stay ahead of the demands of the industry.”
Avenel was developed by a dedicated innovation team within Allscripts, under the direction of Hewitt and Jeff Franks, Allscripts Software Fellow. The solution will be shown throughout the HIMSS meeting in the Allscripts booth (2054), with individual demonstrations available following the conference. It is fully integrated with Allscripts Practice Management and Allscripts FollowMyHealth to support operational efficiency and optimal patient engagement.
Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) is a leader in healthcare information technology solutions that advance clinical, financial and operational results. Our innovative solutions connect people, places and data across an Open, Connected Community of Health™. Connectivity empowers caregivers to make better decisions and deliver better care for healthier populations. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTube and It Takes A Community: The Allscripts Blog.
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Trump OKs Tariff Relief for Three Countries
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed proclamations permitting targeted relief from steel and aluminum quotas from some countries, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday.
Trump, who put in place tariffs on steel and aluminum imports in March, signed proclamations allowing relief from the quotas on steel from South Korea, Brazil and Argentina and on aluminum from Argentina, the department said in a statement.
“Companies can apply for product exclusions based on insufficient quantity or quality available from U.S. steel or aluminum producers,” the statement said. “In such cases, an exclusion from the quota may be granted and no tariff would be owed.”
Trump, citing national security concerns, placed tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports.
The tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the European Union, Canada and Mexico took effect June 1, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said May 31 that arrangements had been made with some countries to have non-tariff limits on their exports of the two metals to the United States.
Ross said the arrangement with South Korea was for a quota of 70 percent of average steel exports to the United States in the years 2015 to 2017.
The Brazilian government said at the time the U.S. quotas and tariffs on Brazil’s steel and aluminum exports were unjustified but that it remained open to negotiate a solution.
Brazilian semi-finished steel exports to the United States are subject to quotas based on the average for the three years from 2015-2017, while finished steel products will be limited to a quota of 70 percent of the average for those years.
Trump, Trudeau Upbeat About Prospects for NAFTA Deal by Friday Next
National Enquirer Sees Falling Circulation
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> Excellence in Road Safety Awards 2017
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Excellence in Road Safety Awards 2017
Mon, 06/26/2017 - 15:00 to 18:00
Athénée Palace Hilton
European Road Safety Charter Team
Excellence in Road Safety Awards: The EC rewards initiatives
in Greece, France, Portugal, Romania and Sweden
The European Commission presented the Excellence in Road Safety Awards 2017 to five winners at a ceremony that took place on 26 June 2017 in Bucharest, Romania. This prize recognises commitments to road safety that have a significant impact on saving lives on Europe's roads.
Awards went to:
The Heracles Group of Companies, a member of LafargeHolcim (Greece)
The Ville de Martigues (France)
The CTT Correios de Portugal
The Romanian Automobile Club
The Motorförarnas Helnykterhetsförbund (Sweden)
During the ceremony, the special prize dedicated to Jacques Barrot, former Transport Commissioner and an enthusiastic advocate of road safety in Europe, was awarded by the audience to the Romanian Automobile Club.
The EU Commissioner for Mobility and Transport, Violeta Bulc, said: "While road safety is our common goal, national and local actors are best placed to design solutions to meet national and local road safety challenges, through innovative measures, through tougher action against dangerous drivers and through better education and awareness-raising. The Excellence in Road Safety Award is a unique opportunity to reward the best practice, to recognise the hard work all of you are doing on a daily basis and to raise awareness about this great project in Europe and beyond."
Recently, annual road safety statistics published by the European Commission showed that after two years of stagnation, 2016 brought a positive turn by reducing road fatalities on EU roads by 2% compared to the previous year. Even though European roads remain the safest in the world, there are still 25,500 people a year losing their lives in road crashes and about 135,000 sustaining serious road traffic injuries.
There are three main areas where there is still a big room for improvement: education, enforcement and the use of new technologies in finding new solutions to existing problems. The Commission evaluated the good practices submitted to the Charter Awards on this basis, and rewarded those practices that offer the most effective and innovative solutions for better road safety results.
The Awards are part of the European Road Safety Charter, launched by the Commission in 2004, the largest civil society platform on road safety in Europe. Today it includes more than 3,400 signatories, most of them with concrete road safety action plans.
Meet the winners of the Excellence in Road Safety Awards 2017
Heracles Group of Companies, a member of LafargeHolcim (Greece): The educational project 'Good Driver' is a very successful corporate social responsibility programme specifically designed for professional drivers of heavy good vehicles and buses. The initiative aims to improve drivers' behaviour and encourage them to be personally accountable for their safety record via an interactive campaign.
The initiative was rewarded for its innovative educational approach: it reaches the target group in a simple and entertaining manner, as it is available to professional drivers independently of their location thanks to a digital platform. The results are measurable at all stages, and the live reporting allows for corrective actions.
http://www.kalosodigos.gr
Ville de Martigues (France): The campaign 'Street code for seniors' of the municipality of Martigues aims to raise awareness of seniors on their risks on the road. The general objective is to reduce the number of fatalities and road traffic injuries affecting elderly road users. In parallel, the initiative aims to gather statistics and information on accident scenarios specific to elderly road users, to raise awareness on their physiological limits and the influence of psychotropic substances, and to refresh their knowledge on traffic rules.
The project was rewarded for improving the safety of a particularly vulnerable group of road users: the elderly. An additional merit of this comprehensive educational programme is to combine successfully road safety concerns with sustainable mobility while improving the quality of life of the targeted community.
www.ville-martigues.fr
CTT Correios de Portugal: The state-owned company is a postal operator with a large vehicle fleet and thousands of drivers that introduced a comprehensive road safety programme to raise awareness of the risks on the roads and to help avoid them. The programme covers a large number of areas from vehicle safety to recruitment and training of drivers as well as accident investigations.
CTT Correios de Portugal was rewarded for the comprehensive nature and effectiveness of its preventive road safety programme, which covers all key areas where impact can be maximised for better results. The initiative pays particular attention to vulnerable road users, mainly as cyclists and motorcyclists. It involves a high number of participants, over 2,500, and can be extended outside
the company.
www.ctt.pt
The Romanian Automobile Club: The project 'Mr Bear' aims to turn careless drivers into responsible ones with the help of their junior passengers. The innovative app 'Junior Co-Pilot Game' uses GPS technology being fully synced with the car. It sends warns to the young players when their parent speeds up over the legal limits. If the speed is not adapted, the player can lose points or the game ends. The app includes road signs and regulations for kids, transforming this app in a real education tool for all.
The Junior Co-Pilot Game was rewarded for its highly innovative nature using mobile app in kid’s road safety education. The project educates kids on road safety turning them into active passengers while it prevents speeding and enhance drivers’ attentiveness. The entertaining nature of the activities increases the efficiency of the programme. http://www.plimba-ursul.ro
The Swedish Abstaining Motorists’ Association has a vision: no one should die because of drunk driving. Statistics show that drunk driving rate around ports is three times higher than the national average. Therefore, the project, relying on a new technology, aims to stop drunk drivers from leaving the ports. In addition to the checkpoints, a traffic control centre gives remote support to drivers and alerts the police, the Customs or the Coast Guard when a drunk driver got stopped in the automatic sobriety test (Alco Gates).
The initiative of the Swedish Abstaining Motorists’ Association was rewarded for its innovative practice in enforcement, key to any successful road safety policy. Sobriety tests in traffic are part of the road safety work, the number of sobriety tests conducted by the police in traffic, however, tends to decrease every year. Alco Gates can help the police to become more effective without requiring major personnel actions.
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Forget Ski School, Here Are 6 Winter Sports You Can Learn Directly from Olympians
These skiing, skating, and bobsledding lessons are all led by some of the best athletes in the world (Tommy Moe included).
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Athletes competing in the Winter Olympics are enjoying a break. They’ve wrapped up the games in South Korea and don’t have to compete again until 2022 in Beijing, so many are making the best use of their time to teach you their craft. That’s right: The hot new sporting activity this winter is hitting the slopes and ice with some of skiing’s, skating’s, snowboarding’s, and even bobsledding’s greats. Luxury hotels and resorts have partnered with some of the biggest names from the Winter Olympics games, both present and past. We scoured the globe to find the best of the best, from racing down mountains with Tommy Moe to twirling on the ice with Brian Boitano. Get ready, get set … and start making room on your shelves for those gold medals.
The St. Regis Deer Valley
In 2002, Salt Lake City hosted an epic Winter Olympic Games, and now the St. Regis Deer Valley is letting guests re-create those experiences. The luxury property, tucked away on top of Deer Valley Ski Mountain, has partnered for the second year in a row with the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation to offer guests two exclusive Olympic-inspired activities. For $3,500, guests can head to the bobsled course with medalists Valerie Fleming and Shauna Rohbock. They’ll hear the inspiring story that took the athletes all the way to silver in 2006, and try their skills at the 10-curve bobsled course. Guests can also join the Olympic Biathlon Experience, where they can practice sharpshooting while alpine skiing or snowshoeing through the powdery white snow of Deer Valley. And don’t forget to dress your best: Participants will be photographed at an award ceremony at the end of each outing.
Exterior of St. Regis Deer Valley Photo: Courtesy of St. Regis Deer Valley
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
In 1994, alpine ski racer Tommy Moe captured hearts around the world when he won a gold and silver Olympic medal. Now, more than two decades later, he’s made his home at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and spends his days showing guests what it’s like to ski the mountain he loves. As a tour guide, he takes guests (intermediate and expert skiers only) on little-known trails to explore his favorite runs at up to 80 mph. Then it’s on to his top après-ski hangouts where he’ll stick around to share a few epic Olympic stories.
Hotel Terra Jackson Hole Photo: Courtesy of Jackson Hole Mountian
Mirror Lake Inn
Mirror Lake Inn, a quaint, boutique hotel in the Adirondack Mountains, is owned by the family of two-time Olympic medalist and U.S. Skiing Hall of Famer Andrew Weibrecht. Nearby Whiteface Mountain is where he learned his craft, so it only makes sense that he passes along his skills to visitors. Weibrecht’s “Ski with Andrew” package takes groups of up to five people on highly personalized journeys, skiing the slopes of his youth and even helping them try their luck at mogul skiing. In between runs, hit the chairlift with Weibrecht to hear his tales of speed and skiing the super-G and downhill at two winter games.
Outside Mirror Lake Inn Photo: Courtesy of Mirror Lake Inn
St. Regis San Francisco
San Francisco might not be the first place one would look to for Winter Olympic sports, but the city has one asset nobody else can claim: Brian Boitano. For those who don’t already know, the California-based athlete is an ice-skating legend: In 1988, the inventor of the “Boitano triple lutz” won gold at the Olympics, and he was a world champion and U.S. champion for years before that. And now, guests staying at the St. Regis San Francisco can get a private, one-hour ice-skating lesson with him as part of the hotel’s Live Exquisite holiday package. For $50,000, they’ll also get a two-night stay in the Presidential Suite, VIP tickets to the ballet (which, it’s safe to assume, the guests are a fan of if they’re booking this package), and an in-suite Champagne sabering of Krug Vintage. It’s a pricey experience, yes, but then again, there’s only one Brian Boitano.
Presidential Suite at St. Regis San Francisco Photo: Courtesy of St. Regis San Francisco
Giardino Mountain
Giardino Mountain—a serene retreat in the picturesque town of Champfèr, near St. Moritz—looks like the kind of place where guests might do little more than watch the snow fall. But there are more thrills here than one might think: This year, on January 20 and 21, hotel guests will get an exclusive Olympic monobob experience led by skeleton racing Olympian Gregor Stähli. They’ll slide down a nearby Olympic course at over 60 mph, feeling the wind on their faces and the rush of the steep mountain below. When (or if) they survive, the Olympic champion will then treat them to an elaborate dinner of—what else?—fondue.
Exterior of Giardino Mountain Photo: Courtesy of Giardino Mountain
Alts Bandai
Alts Bandai, located just three hours from Tokyo, is one of Japan’s biggest snow havens—a true luxury retreat where everything from the ski conditions to the equipment are top-notch. Starting in mid-February, those conditions will get even better with the arrival of Japanese snowboarder Miyabi Onitsuka, who will be available to hotel guests for exclusive lessons. Whether they are beginners or advanced skiers, Onitsuka—who hasn’t yet made it to the Olympics but holds a gold medal for slopestyle from the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships—will teach guests new techniques and skills. She’ll also hit the après-ski scene with them afterward for some post-boarding critique.
Skier on Mount Bandai Photo: Courtesy of Hoshino Hotels & Resorts
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The Latest: Iowa AD looking at different football scenarios
By The Associated Press - May. 28, 2020 06:48 PM EDT
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam speaks during the COVID-19 press briefing inside the Patrick Henry Building in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, May 26, 2020. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
Iowa athletic director Gary Barta is not ruling out having a full stadium for home football games.
Barta told reporters the school is planning for several different scenarios, and one of them is opening 69,250-seat Kinnick Stadium to “as many fans as want to join us.”
Barta said the number of fans allowed into the stadium will be determined by directives of state and local health officials.
On Tuesday, Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard wrote in a letter to fans that he anticipated Jack Trice Stadium would host games at 50% capacity, or about 30,000 fans.
Even if there are no attendance limits at Iowa, Barta said there could be modifications, such as limiting the number of stadium entrances and open concession stands. He said fans might be required to wear masks.
Western Kentucky has proposed a staggered restart plan that would allow the return of 65 football players for voluntary workouts on June 8.
The university has released its proposed restart plan for public feedback, with fall classes beginning on Aug. 24 and in-person instruction concluding on Nov. 20. A final approved plan from four committees, including athletics, will be released next week.
Volleyball, soccer and the remaining 40 football players will return July 6 and be followed days later by the men’s and women’s basketball teams. Other programs will return later in August.
While some athletes have struggled to cope with the isolation of the coronavirus lockdown, Atlanta Falcons center Alex Mack has no complaints.
He has picked up a new hobby — making bread — and learned that he doesn’t mind spending most of his time at home.
“I can be a homebody pretty well,” Mack said during a video conference call with Atlanta media. “The things I like to do, apparently you don’t need to leave the house that much.”
The six-time Pro Bowler has been documenting his new hobby on social media. So far, he has churned out French bread, a standard loaf, pizza, brioche bread and English muffins for a homemade breakfast sandwich.
The 34-year-old Mack is heading into his 12th season in the NFL. At this point, he’s taking in year by year.
“The goal when I showed up in the league was 10 years,” he said. “That seemed like a good career. From here on out, I want to do the best I can to play at the highest level. I’m going to play one year at a time. I think I’ve got a lot of juice left in the tank. I’m ready to go this year.”
MotoGP organizers and the Spanish government say they are working to bring the racing series back in the summer.
MotoGP promoter Dorna says it is “working hard to try” to resume racing in July, likely with consecutive events at the Spanish circuit of Jerez de la Frontera.
Spain was set to host four races before the season was put in jeopardy because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Georgia Tech will begin the first phase of a plan to reopen its athletic facilities on June 15.
The plan is based on guidance from the school administration, the University System of Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp’s office and public health officials.
Under the initial reopening phase, athletes who live in the Atlanta area will be able to use campus weight rooms and athletic training facilities on a voluntary basis.
In order to take part, students and staff must make an appointment to work out, complete a daily health check questionnaire, undergo temperature checks when they arrive at the facility, and limit groups to no more than 10 athletes and two staff members inside a facility at one time in order to maintain social distancing guidelines. Also, no locker rooms can be used and all workouts groups must remain the same throughout the first phase of the reopening.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says racing will be allowed to resume in the state without spectators.
The governor says NASCAR will race at Martinsville Speedway on June 10, and that other forms of auto racing and horse racing also are cleared to resume.
“These events will not be open to the public and no spectators will be allowed, among other restrictions,” he says.
NASCAR was originally scheduled to make its first of two stops at Martinsville in early May, but the event was postponed because of the coronavirus. It also will visit Richmond Raceway on Sept. 12 and conclude the season with a return to Martinsville on Nov. 1.
Miami Dolphins tight end Mike Gesicki says the recent pass-and-catch video he posted that went viral was inspired by boredom during the coronavirus lockdown.
The video shows Gesicki lobbing a football over a multi-story beach house, running through the garage and making the catch on the other side on the run as he heads into the street.
“I was honestly just super bored, and I was at my girlfriend’s beach house, pretty close to where I live, and we were just kind of hanging out,” Gesicki says . “We saw something similar to that on the internet and we were like, ‘Hey, I might try that,’ and ended up taking a couple tries. It was fun.”
Gesicki had a breakout 2019 in his second NFL season. He capped it by making the winning touchdown catch in the finale at New England.
Live horse racing is slated to resume in Maryland this weekend with a three-day session at Laurel Park, which will remain closed to the general public.
The Maryland Jockey Club says it has received approval from the Maryland Racing Commission to launch its Summer 2020 meet with live racing on Saturday, but fans are forbidden from entering the track until clearance is received from the state.
All races on Saturday, Sunday and Monday will be streamed live on the Laurel Park website.
Italy’s top soccer league will resume on June 20.
Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora gave Serie A the green light to resume after a meeting with Italian soccer authorities on Thursday.
A medical protocol for matches was approved by a technical scientific committee earlier.
Spadafora says Serie A will restart on June 20 but the Italian Cup semifinals and the final could be played on June 13 and 17.
Serie A has been suspended since March 9, when the government ordered a nationwide lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.
There are 12 rounds remaining in Serie A, plus four matches that were postponed from the 25th round.
Texas will soon allow outdoor pro sports events to have spectators, but their numbers will be strictly limited.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has revised a decision to let pro sports leagues host events without fans starting in June as part of the states’ move to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Abbott’s new order allows outdoor stadiums to host fans up to 25% of their normal capacity. Leagues will have to apply to state health officials to be allowed to have fans. Indoor events will still be without spectators.
The PGA Tour plans to restart its season at Colonial in Texas on June 11-14 but has said it would not include fans.
The state has set up several guidelines for leagues to follow, including a recommendation that spectators and employees keep at least 6 feet apart from anyone not from their household. If that is not feasible, other measures such as face coverings and sanitation protocols should be followed.
Athletes will not be required to wear masks but the guidelines encourage them to be worn on the sidelines.
The order does not address college sports events.
Major League Soccer teams can begin voluntary outdoor small group training sessions.
Holding the small group sessions must not conflict with local public health or government restrictions, but is the next step in the league’s hopes of returning to action. A maximum of six players may be assigned to a single group.
Teams must submit club-specific plans for the small group sessions to the league. The league said teams may split full fields into two equal halves and teams may define up to six zones per half field, spaced at least 10 feet apart. Only one player may be in each zone at any time to maintain physical distancing. Players may switch zones but two players cannot occupy the same zone.
Players may pass and shoot on goal, but all training exercises must allow for 10 feet of distance.
The league says all health and safety measures required when teams began individual training must be maintained. Players will be screened, including temperature checks, before being allowed on training fields. All equipment must be cleaned after use.
The league-wide moratorium on full team training remains in effect through June 1.
Darlington Raceway is switching gears for its next event.
Two weeks after hosting NASCAR’s return to racing, the track will hold graduation ceremonies for the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics. There will be 120 graduating seniors at Saturday’s event from the school in Hartsville, a few miles from NASCAR’s oldest superspeedway.
Darlington Raceway President Kerry Tharp said the track was honored to help the high school seniors be recognized in a proper way.
Traditional high school graduation ceremonies have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ceremony will take place at a parking lot on track property. Afterward, the graduates and their parents will have the chance to drive their vehicles for a lap around the 1.366-mile track and get their pictures taken on the start-finish line.
Malcolm Jenkins, who this offseason left the Eagles to sign with the New Orleans Saints as a free agent, will be the keynote speaker at Philadelphia’s virtual graduation on June 9.
Jenkins starred for the Eagles for the last six seasons and the safety won an NFL championship in 2017. He also has been a leader of several off-field initiatives, and his foundation has a mission to promote positive change in the lives of underserved youth in New Jersey, where he grew up; Ohio, where he went to college at Ohio State; Pennsylvania and Louisiana, homes of his pro teams.
“Malcolm was selected not for his greatness on the field and his two Super Bowl rings, but because of his compassion and advocacy around social justice,” said Donna Frisby-Greenwood, CEO of the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia and co-chair of the commencement planning committee. “Malcolm’s foundation focuses on youth leadership development and skill building, and we think that that makes him a perfect speaker for us.”
The hour-long graduation will be streamed on several platforms, including the school district’s website. Frisby-Greenwood said that several companies and organizations are involved with planning and serving as sponsors. The Philadelphia Orchestra has recorded “Pomp and Circumstance” for the ceremony. And the city’s Free Library will host the live stream of the event on its platform.
Individual high schools will be distributing caps and gowns to the students to wear during the festivities.
The Premier League’s official broadcasters say the competition will restart on June 17.
The BBC and Sky Sports say there will be a doubleheader on that day with Manchester City playing Arsenal and Aston Villa hosting Sheffield United.
Playing those make-up games on a Wednesday will ensure the 30th round can be contested the following weekend.
The last match was played on March 9 before the competition was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Squads were only allowed to restart practice sessions in small groups last week but contact and tackling is now allowed between players.
The European Tour plans to resume its season in July starting with a six-week stretch of golf tournaments in Britain and running through to the World Tour Championship in Dubai in December.
The tour says its events initially will be held without spectators and will be subject to strict testing protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The season has been suspended since March 8. It will resume with the British Masters in northern England from July 22-25 before five further events in the “UK Swing” across England and Wales.
Four Rolex Series events have been rescheduled for October to December. They are the Scottish Open, the BMW PGA Championship, the Nedbank Golf Challenge and then the season-ending World Tour Championship from Dec. 10-13.
The tour says details of other tournaments from September to November will be announced later.
European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley says the Ryder Cup is still on schedule for Sept. 25-27 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin pending more discussions with the PGA Tour.
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215: "Toffee Soccer" - With David France & Rob Sawyer
We admit that when our friends at Liverpool's deCoubertin Books reached out recently with an advance look at their upcoming title devoted to the history of one of England's most venerable top-flight soccer clubs, we weren't immediately sold on the premise, nor its applicability to our (admittedly) odd brand of sports curiosity.
But after just a few minutes with the meticulously detailed "Toffee Soccer: Everton and North America," we became not only intrigued by the rich, storied saga of Everton F.C.'s 143-year journey into what is now known as the English Premier League - but downright fascinated with its surprising contributions to the development of the game in North America.
Toffee co-authors David France and Rob Sawyer join the podcast this week to shine light on the little-known, but undeniable connection between the "Blues" and the rise of the modern-day pro game in the US & Canada.
From the club's unexpected 1961 runner-up finish in the influential International Soccer League, to its subsequent supply of dozens of top players to the foundational North American Soccer League of the 70s/80s, to its recent embrace of world-class American players like Landon Donovan and Tim Howard - the "People's Club" has been an unwittingly integral part of soccer's Stateside history - far beyond Goodison Park.
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Immunodeficiency (2)
Rémy Rodriguez
Concomitant PIK3CD and TNFRSF9 deficiencies cause chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection of T cells
Rémy Rodriguez, Benjamin Fournier, Debora Jorge Cordeiro, Sarah Winter, Kazushi Izawa, Emmanuel Martin, David Boutboul, Christelle Lenoir, Sylvie Fraitag, Sven Kracker, Tania H. Watts, Capucine Picard, Julie Bruneau, Isabelle Callebaut, Alain Fischer, Bénédicte Neven, Sylvain Latour
J Exp Med (2019) 216 (12): 2800–2818.
Infection of T cells by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) causes chronic active EBV infection (CAEBV) characterized by T cell lymphoproliferative disorders (T-LPD) of unclear etiology. Here, we identified two homozygous biallelic loss-of-function mutations in PIK3CD and TNFRSF9 in a patient who developed a fatal CAEBV. The mutation in TNFRSF9 gene coding CD137/4-1BB, a costimulatory molecule expressed by antigen-specific activated T cells, resulted in a complete loss of CD137 expression and impaired T cell expansion toward CD137 ligand–expressing cells. Isolated as observed in one sibling, CD137 deficiency resulted in persistent EBV-infected T cells but without clinical manifestations. The mutation in PIK3CD gene that encodes the catalytic subunit p110δ of the PI3K significantly reduced its kinase activity. Deficient T cells for PIK3CD exhibited reduced AKT signaling, while calcium flux, RAS-MAPK activation, and proliferation were increased, suggestive of an imbalance between the PLCγ1 and PI3K pathways. These skewed signals in T cells may sustain accumulation of EBV-infected T cells, a process controlled by the CD137–CD137L pathway, highlighting its critical role in immunity to EBV.
Inherited CD70 deficiency in humans reveals a critical role for the CD70–CD27 pathway in immunity to Epstein-Barr virus infection
Monogenic Auto-Inflammation and Auto-Immunity in Humans 2018
Kazushi Izawa, Emmanuel Martin, Claire Soudais, Julie Bruneau, David Boutboul, Rémy Rodriguez, Christelle Lenoir, Andrew D. Hislop, Caroline Besson, Fabien Touzot, Capucine Picard, Isabelle Callebaut, Jean-Pierre de Villartay, Despina Moshous, Alain Fischer, Sylvain Latour
J Exp Med (2016) 214 (1): 73–89.
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in humans is a major trigger of malignant and nonmalignant B cell proliferations. CD27 is a co-stimulatory molecule of T cells, and inherited CD27 deficiency is characterized by high susceptibility to EBV infection, though the underlying pathological mechanisms have not yet been identified. In this study, we report a patient suffering from recurrent EBV-induced B cell proliferations including Hodgkin’s lymphoma because of a deficiency in CD70, the ligand of CD27. We show that EBV-specific T lymphocytes did not expand properly when stimulated with CD70-deficient EBV-infected B cells, whereas expression of CD70 in B cells restored expansion, indicating that CD70 on B cells but not on T cells is required for efficient proliferation of T cells. CD70 was found to be up-regulated on B cells when activated and during EBV infection. The proliferation of T cells triggered by CD70-expressing B cells was dependent on CD27 and CD3 on T cells. Importantly, CD27-deficient T cells failed to proliferate when stimulated with CD70-expressing B cells. Thus, the CD70–CD27 pathway appears to be a crucial component of EBV-specific T cell immunity and more generally for the immune surveillance of B cells and may be a target for immunotherapy of B cell malignancies.
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Home › FEATURED › My Dyslexic Life: A Journey Out of the Shadows by Scott Douthit
My Dyslexic Life: A Journey Out of the Shadows by Scott Douthit
For a Kindle eBook of My Dyslexic Life, CLICK HERE.
“But Mr. D, you’ve graduated from college, written plays— you’re a great teacher with all these awards. You wouldn’t know what it’s like to have people make you feel stupid for being dyslexic!”
“Actually, believe it or not...”
Today, researchers estimate that between five and twenty percent of the population is affected by dyslexia. This growing awareness and understanding of different learning styles has changed the lives of tens of millions of people. When Scott Douthit was growing up in the 1960s, though, no one could explain why it was so difficult for him to succeed in the one-size-fits-all schools he attended.
My Deslex Dyslexic Life: A Journey Out of the Shadows, a deeply moving account of Scott’s struggles and triumphs, invites the reader to consider new ways of overcoming barriers to accomplishment and understanding, both for themselves and others. At once entertaining and touching, it offers an intimate glance into the life, mind, and heart of a courageous individual. Scott’s story serves as a reminder that the norms, standards, and expectations of society are a work in progress, and that it is within our power to make them more humane and compassionate.
A staggering 5 to 15 percent of Americans—14.5 to 43.5 million children and adults—have dyslexia, a learning disability that makes it difficult to read, write, and spell, no matter how hard the person tries or how intelligent he or she is.
It is estimated that 1 in 10 people have dyslexia
Over 40 million American Adults are dyslexic - and only 2 million know it
Dyslexia is not tied to IQ - Einstein was dyslexic and had an estimated IQ of 160
Dyslexia in not just about getting letters or numbers mixed up or out of order
80% of people associate dyslexia with some form of retardation - this is not true
Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability or disorder that includes poor word reading, word decoding, oral reading fluency and spelling
Dyslexia occurs in people of all backgrounds and intellectual levels
Dyslexia has nothing to do with not working hard enough
20% of school-aged children in the US are dyslexic
With appropriate teaching methods, dyslexia can learn successfully
Over 50% of NASA employees are dyslexic
Dyslexia runs in families; parents with dyslexia are very likely to have children with dyslexia
Dyslexics may struggle with organizational skills, planning and prioritizing, keeping time, concentrating with background noise.
Dyslexics may excel at connecting ideas, thinking out of the box, 3D thinking, seeing the big picture
People with dyslexia excel or even gifted in areas of art, computer science, design, drama, electronics, math, mechanics, music, physics, sales and sports
Many famous people are dyslexic including: Orlando Bloom, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Spielberg, Kiera Knightley. Albert Einstein and Patrick Dempsey
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Scott Douthit was born in Fairbanks, Alaska and grew up in Berkeley, California, where he discovered the joy of acting in high school. Crossing the bay, he graduated from San Francisco State University and earned his teaching credential, which has since been put to good use at Charles Armstrong School in Belmont, California. Mr. Douthit’s passion for the stage and his creative teaching style have energized and engaged Armstrong students for more than thirty-five years. As a proud dyslexic learner himself, he shares Armstrong’s mission to empower and unlock the unique potential of those with dyslexia and other learning differences. Today Scott lives in South San Francisco, where he and the love of his life were married and raised their two amazing children. Visit him at his website: https://www.mydyslexiclife.com/
My Deslex Dyslexic Life: A Journey Out of the Shadows
Memoir / Dyslexia
ISBN: Paperback: 978-1-944297-60-2, 6 x 9, 168 pages, $12.95
Kindle eBook: 978-1-944297-61-9, $6.99
YOU AND ME KID: A Practical Guide for Meeting Your Teen with Faith, Hope, and Love by Nancy Washburn
Who Put Me in CHARGE?
UNPLUGGED: Hundreds of Activities for Teens to Do Without a Screen
Tony the Lonely Dandelion by Marsha Barth
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The Monstrous Regiment: Reading the menus, feeding the mind
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Laudable Audio: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
June 25, 2017 June 25, 2017 ~ stopphannah ~ Leave a comment
If you’ve read some of our previous posts, you’ve probably noticed that several of us are avid audiobook listeners. In my case, it’s because I work with my hands a lot–sewing, knitting, and at my job making handmade wigs–so I need something to keep my brain busy at the same time. (The hands-free format, of course, also makes for ideal snacking-while-reading.) Not long ago, my co-worker Meredith and I discovered our new listening obsession: Kate Summerscale! Our boss had just listened to her book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective, and couldn’t stop talking about it, so of course we had to find out what all the fuss was about.
Kate Summerscale writes meticulously researched non-fiction books about history, mostly the 19th and early 20th centuries. Mr. Whicher is the story of the Road Hill House Murder–one of the most publicly scrutinized cases of the mid-19th century. Expertly entwined with the story of four-year-old Saville Kent’s brutal murder at his family’s home (reconstructed through court records, newspaper articles, and letters), is fascinating information about the history of detection, the Victorian attitude towards both the police force and the press, and the case’s influence in popular literature of the time. Mr. Whicher, the London detective called out to investigate the case after local efforts failed, was a figure of fascination to writers like Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. Detectives, after all, had only been around for a few decades. Think of the fascination that the detective process still holds for us today, and then imagine that the entire genre is brand new! Details of the case can be found popping up everywhere from Dickens’ Bleak House, to Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s sensational novel Lady Audley’s Secret.
While backing up every detail with historical evidence, and only rarely straying into clearly-marked speculation, Summerscale still manages to keep the story engaging–never dry or dull. It takes true talent to be able to present every bit of documentation and evidence without sounding like Professor Binns. We were riveted the entire way through.
I didn’t get a chance to take a gander at this book’s citation page, since we were listening, but I’d imagine it’s a doozy. If you’re a fan of history, true crime, or Victorian literature, I highly recommend giving this book a try. I’ve only ever been a sporadic reader of non-fiction, but this has me seeking out more by Kate Summerscale!
Why Audio?
While I certainly recommend this book in any form (it has also been made into a TV movie for ITV, followed by several other fictionalized tales about Mr. Whicher’s career), I have to give a plug for the audiobook. Mr. Whicher appears to have two different audio versions, an abridged version read by Harriet Walters, or the unabridged version read by Simon Vance. I can’t speak to the abridged version–it is more than three hours shorter than the unabridged, so I’d imagine you miss a lot of the tidbits of history that were some of my favorite parts.
Simon Vance does a masterful job with the narration of the unabridged book. He has a deep, gravelly voice that brings to mind Christopher Lee, or Vincent Price–perfect for the chilling tale of a young boy’s murder. It’s no wonder he’s won a grand total of 75 awards for audiobook narration, including for his reading of The Complete Sherlock Holmes.
I hope this inspires you to give The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher a try, even if you, like me, were dubious at the thought of listening to non-fiction. It was my first non-fiction audiobook, but it’s already not my last!
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Success spoils a U.S. program to round up wild horses, Oct. 14, 2016
Photo by Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Return to Freedom agrees the current system is broken: often inhumane in its treatment of wild horses and burros, wrenching them from their home ranges and family bands, and costly for taxpayers. RTF advocates for humane, on-range management of wild horses and burros through the aggressive implementation of fertility control, as well as exploring expanded partnerships will private landowners and sanctuaries and proposals such as creating incentives for ranchers with existing grazing privileges on public land who agree to forgo them to reduce competition for forage. The strong response to the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory’s recommendation made clear that euthanizing captive animals or reducing protections aimed at preventing horses from being slaughtered are not options that the American people will accept. Any discussion of the wild horse issue must also include the federal government’s below-market grazing fees, the amount of land allocated to horses and a discussion of “appropriate management levels.”
As published by The New York Times
Osage County, OK — As the sun set on the honey-colored prairie here, a herd of wild horses grazed belly deep in Indiangrass and big bluestem. On the next ridge, a dozen more horses nibbled in the pasture, and beyond them even more, dotting the hills almost as far as the eye could see.
The head of the Bureau of Land Management’s wild horse program, Dean Bolstad, tipped up his cowboy hat and looked out at the animals from a hilltop. “I love seeing this,” he said, “but it’s also an absolute anchor around our neck.”
The horses were grazing on a ranch the agency rents, one of 60 private ranches, corrals and feedlots where it stores the 46,000 wild horses it has removed from the West’s public lands. The cost: $49 million a year.
Trying to make that rent has pushed the wild horse program into crisis. The expense eats up 66 percent of the federal budget for managing wild horses, and it is expected to total more than $1 billion over the life of the herds. The program cannot afford to continue old management practices that created the problem in the first place, or afford to come up with solutions that might fix it.
“We’re in a real pickle,” Mr. Bolstad said. “We have huge challenges ahead of us, and we don’t have the resources to respond.”
Spending a billion dollars on pastures is a symptom of a broader problem. The agency says there are far too many wild horses roaming the West, and it must limit them to stave off damage to fragile ecosystems. But it never found a strategy that does not put more horses on storage ranches.
Some critics say management must become broader and include other options, like fertility control drugs for horses in the wild. Others say policies that eliminated predators like wolves, which once helped keep the horse population in check, need to be reconsidered. Still others say it is time to kill horses to free up resources. Animal-rights groups, meanwhile, oppose any killing of horses.
The bureau has struggled to limit wild horse populations since Congress passed a law in 1971 protecting the wild horses and burros that roam patches of public land in 10 Western states, and whose numbers increase naturally every year. The agency says the land can support only about 27,000 animals, but these days, there are about 77,000.
Repeated government audits going back 26 years have warned the bureau to find alternatives to storing horses before the cost crippled the program, but it never has. For decades the bureau used helicopter roundups to thin herds, but it can now barely afford that because it spends so much on storing horses.
In recent years, the bureau tried fertility control drugs — administered through an annual shot delivered by dart gun — that would reduce the need for roundups. Now money for that has been spent on storing horses, too.
“The entire budget is tied up in feeding horses; we need to do something drastic, now,” said Ben Masters, a filmmaker who adopted seven wild horses and made a movie about riding them to Canada from Mexico. He now sits on the program’s nine-member advisory board.
In a phone interview from a wild horse area near Eureka, Nev., Mr. Masters described seeing thousands of acres damaged by overgrazing. “It’s totally degraded, and we need to save it, both for the horses and for the other wildlife.”
In September, the board voted 8 to 1 to kill the horses in storage. Mr. Masters said voting for the measure broke his heart. “It kills me. I’d love for there to be another way out, but I just don’t see it.”
After the vote, though, the bureau was flooded with outraged calls and emails, and officials quickly assured the public they had no plans to kill any horses. They have just signed contracts with ranches that can store 6,000 more horses.
Ginger Kathrens, a longtime wild horse advocate who sits on the bureau’s advisory board, cast the lone vote against killing the horses in storage, saying she favored increasing adoptions and finding places to put horses back out on the range. “There are lots of things the B.L.M. could do besides selling horses to kill buyers,” she said.
Federal law allows the agency to kill excess horses to maintain what it calls “a thriving natural ecological balance.” But regulators never took the step, in part fearing public reaction, and in part because Congress in recent years has added riders to various bills banning the killing of healthy wild horses.
Instead, the agency has encouraged people to adopt wild horses. But the number of people offering homes has rarely equaled the number of horses gathered in roundups.
The rest go to places like the Hughes Ranch, here in Oklahoma, where for about $2 per horse per day, Robert Hughes, a cattle rancher, maintains just over 4,000 horses on thousands of acres of prime grassland.
“I basically run an old folks home for horses,” he said with a chuckle as he looked out at the grazing herds. “They’re in good groceries right here, I can tell you that.”
Asked whether the agency should continue to store horses or euthanize them, he shook his head: “Hey, look, man, I’m in the grass-farming business.”
He said he did not have anything to do with policy. “If this deal ended, we’d get back into livestock in a big way.”
The agency now finds itself buffeted on all sides by lawsuits. Ranchers who share the range are demanding that horse numbers be brought down to prescribed levels. Animal rights groups are demanding an end to roundups and darting.
By next year, the agency expects an increase of 15,000 horses.
In September, the advisory board toured a wild horse herd area in Nevada that had not been grazed by cattle in eight years. Sue McDonnell, a board member who teaches equine behavior at the University of Pennsylvania, said she opposed euthanasia until she saw the battered grasses and invasive weeds.
“It was awful,” she said in an interview. “A lot of that land is under severe stress. If we don’t act now, there will be parts that will be lost effectively forever. The horses will die, other wildlife will die, and that will be that.”
While few people disagree that regions of the West are overgrazed, critics of the agency say it is wrong to blame wild horses, which are outnumbered by cattle 10 to one on bureau lands.
Killing horses in storage would only enable unsustainable practices that favor ranchers, they say.
“The population problem is just a symptom of a failed public lands wildlife policy,” said Michael Harris, a lawyer for Friends of Animals. To find a lasting solution, he said, the federal government must address decades of management policies that have eradicated wolves and mountain lions, which prey on horses, from public lands, creating a landscape where horses reproduce rapidly.
“We’re not going to solve this problem unless we have a policy that makes room for wildlife on the land — all wildlife, not just horses,” he said.
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30 Celebrities Who Are Surprisingly Still Single
With an incredible wealth and global fame, many would think that celebrities have got it all. However, that doesn’t always seem to be the case for some of these Hollywood stars. Even though they have everything most of us wish for, these well-known figures are still single and unwedded.
Well, it appears like fortune and popularity isn’t always a guaranteed formula in finding true love, at least from what these examples tell us. In fact, some of these celebrities have been on their own for a while now. Check out this list of stars who are surprisingly still single today.
A charismatic American actress recently seen from Marvel’s Spider-man: Far From Home, Marisa Tomei seems to be difficult to pin down. While she has dated many popular men such as Lenny Kravitz, Robert Downey Jr., and Christian Slater, none of them convinced her to settle down. Apparently, she is enjoying her life as it is and is not in a rush to find a partner. Despite being single for a while now, she enjoys a very successful career.
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Sheryl Crow has surely got the Hollywood fame and singing career working right for her, but not when it comes to love relationships. Sheryl used to date Lance Armstrong, one of the world’s most popular cyclists. Rumors said that Armstrong used illegal substances to enhance his cycling performance during competitions. After the two broke it off and the Californian singer remained single ever since.
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Lucy Liu is a Japanese-American actress who rose to global fame through her Charlie’s Angels film co-starring Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore. As a business enthusiast, Lucy constantly looks for new opportunities, although love doesn’t seem to be included.
In the past, she has dated George Clooney, one of the most popular actors and businessmen in America. In fact, the two were in a very serious relationship but, unfortunately, they never tied the knot. Ever since they broke up, Lucy opted to stay single. She has been raising a child born through a surrogate since 2015, all on her own!
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Who isn’t familiar with one of the most talked about families in the world of entertainment? Kourtney Kardashian surely had her fair share of drama tied to the family, being one of the biggest reality show stars in America. She is famously known for her relationship with Scott Disick, with whom she had three children.
Scott’s issues of infidelity and drug addiction eventually brought their relationship to an end. Since that Kardashian family drama, no one has yet asked Kourtney to tie the knot.
Rockstar Joan Jett seldom talked about her private life, which left thousands of her curious fans disappointed. The only thing she has made clear so far was her choice to not get married. The fact that she is absolutely silent about her love choices and affairs makes this belief so convincing. Nevertheless, it seems like this singer is not seeing anyone at the moment.
John Cusack rose to stardom during the 1980s when he became a household name in the film industry. This undeniably paved the way for his relationships with beautiful actresses and colleagues from the industry. Some of them include Neve Campbell, Minnie Driver, and his co-star Lili Taylor in the movie, Say Anything.
Even though his successful career has brought John plenty of attention and fans, he has managed to keep his love life a secret. However, one thing we know for sure is that the actor has not settled down with anyone yet.
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A popular Hollywood figure, Owen Wilson starred in some of the 2000s classic comedies which led him to date some popular actresses. Most notable of all is Kate Hudson, whom Owen dated and proposed to back in 2008. Unfortunately, the two broke off the engagement and did not end up tying the knot. After that, Owen went on to date Sheryl Crow but this relationship did not last long either. Despite being unmarried, Owen has now three children coming from different mothers he briefly dated in the past.
Much like her The Office character, Mindy Kaling seemed to mirror the on-again-off-again relationship of Kelly Kapoor with co-worker Ryan Howard (B.J. Novak). However, theirs was never as formally defined as Kelly and Ryan’s. Today, Mindy busies herself with producing, writing, and raising her two children all by herself. While many people speculate that Novak is the father of at least one of her children, Kaling has repeatedly clarified that Novak is only a godfather to them.
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Andrea Tantaros
Andrea Tantaros was a former political analyst on Fox News. She took on many important roles on TV, including co-hosting shows such as The Five and Outnumbered. When it comes to her love life, Andrea had far less success compared to her TV career. She briefly dated Dave Navarro, a popular singer, and actor who was once married to Carmen Electra. Even though the two seemed to be happy together, they eventually called it quits and Andrea has never gotten into a high-profile relationship since then.
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Born in South Africa, Charlize Theron is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful stars in Hollywood. While she has successfully built a flourishing career in the US, she unfortunately failed to find a lifetime partner. Charlize used to date actor Sean Penn, but the two broke things off in 2015. Despite the lack of romance, Charlize is still very happy and satisfied, looking after her kids who were left under her care.
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From the popular action police procedural show NCIS, Cote de Pablo played as one of its main stars. During the series run, Cote dated a fellow actor Diego Serrano from 2000 to 2015. After a long relationship, the two broke things off without ever walking down the aisle. Since her last break up, Cote hasn’t dated anyone or gotten into a relationship that we know of.
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Playing one of the most endearing characters for the series Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke found her acting breakthrough upon joining the project. Her role as the Queen of the dragons earned her millions of fans, but sadly, it did not bring her any luck in the love department.
There aren’t many details about Emilia’s dating life other than the rumors involving actor Seth McFarlane a few years ago. Today, we can safely say that this talented actress is not romantically committed to anyone yet.
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John Hamm
The first actor on our list is Jon Hamm, who also had no luck in finding a lifetime partner. While he had several notable relationships, Jon never really got married. Jennifer Westfield, a famous actress and a writer, was probably Jon’s most prominent relationship. After all, the two were together for almost two decades. They started dating in 1997 but, unfortunately, ended up separating in 2015.
Shonda Rhimes is the mastermind behind the famous TV show Grey’s Anatomy. She also created award-winning shows How To Get Away with Murder, Scandal, and more recently, Bridgerton. However, when it comes to the love department, this famous and very successful TV producer seemed to have no luck. Nevertheless, Shonda has now three children and she lives a very happy life despite being unmarried. In an interview on Oprah’s show in 2015, Shonda said “I don’t want to get married. At all. Because I could not have the life that I’ve created for myself. I couldn’t do it.”
Famous for her role in the Sleepy Hollow, Miranda Richardson is a one of the successful Hollywood actresses today. As you would have guessed, Miranda is another one of our celebrities who never got married. Back in 2009, Miranda said in an interview, “I think marriage would be quite good for me, but I’m not going to just go out and hire someone. I think, intermittently, that you find Mr. Right, but you have to get lucky. I don’t rule out having a family – it just hasn’t happened for me yet.”
Kristin Davis is one of the iconic actresses who played roles in the TV series, Sex and the City. While her character Charlotte and her family in the show were obsessed with marriage, Kristin in real life seemed otherwise.
Back in 2013 she spoke to Haute Living and said, “If I did marry, it would be someone so awesome, I would bring him in and potentially share time with Gemma (her adopted daughter). I don’t know that I necessarily totally intended to still be single, though I do remember being young and thinking ‘Why are all these people getting married?’ But I’m an actress. I’ve never exactly been the status quo.”
You probably heard about Monica Lewinsky already as she took the spotlight years back, unfortunately, not for good publicity. She was involved in a huge scandal with then-president Bill Clinton. Monica has tried dating since, but she hasn’t had any luck finding a suitable partner after. To make matters worse, she has also struggled finding a stable job after the messy scandal. Surprisingly, Monica returned to public view in 2014, now as a social activist championing issues like cyberbullying.
Mary Louise Parker
Mary Louise Parker earned her fame thanks to her character in the series titled Weeds. Even though she’s had plenty of success with her career, we can’t say the same in her love life. After being together for 8 years, Mary had a child with Billy Crudup. Unfortunately, Billy left her for Claire Danes, seven months into her pregnancy. She later got engaged to Jeffrey Dean Morgan, but the wedding was canceled for unknown reasons. Mary might be single and unwedded now, but she isn’t lonely with her son’s company.
Jennifer Aniston is another Hollywood actress whose relationships were widely discussed in public. The Friends star has only dated prominent celebrities, hence, everyone is interested in the details of her love life.
As you probably know, Jennifer married Brad Pitt in 2000 but they got divorced. Brad then started dating Angelina Jolie after. Jennifer then married Justin Theroux in 2015, but they also split two years later. After these two unsuccessful marriages, Jennifer is just living her best life now as a dog-mom to pups Lord Chesterfield, Clyde, and Sophie.
Dina Meyer started her acting career back in the 90s when she appeared in the popular Fox show titled Beverly Hills, 90210. After that, Dina has starred in several films and made a few TV appearances which saw her career took off exponentially. While she has become quite successful in her career, that doesn’t seem to translate to love, as she is yet to be married. The actress is now 52 years old and still single, and it seems like it won’t be changing at the moment.
On June 4, 2020, Kelly Clarkson filed for divorce from her husband at the time, Brandon Blackstock. The two, who were together for seven years, have two children together. Clarkson has been fairly quiet about pursuing any new romance after her divorce from Blackstock.
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Actress Allison Janney has never been married nor has she ever had children. In the past, she has dated off and on, but she does not plan to marry any time soon, if ever. Her acting career, however, she hopes to continue.
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Another actress who has never been married? Diane Keaton, who has starred in a plethora of Hollywood hits, including The Godfather and Something’s Gotta Give. She recently told People, “I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.”
American Sniper star, Bradley Cooper, has dated around plenty in Hollywood, but he is currently single. The actor, who has been active on screen since 1999, married Jennifer Esposito in 2006, but the couple split up the year after. Cooper had a child with longtime partner, Irina Shayk, in 2017, but their relationship came to an end, too. Who’s to say when this A Star Is Born actor will find love again?
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We all know Jim Carrey best for his off-the-wall facial expressions and jokes in movies like The Mask and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. But what about his romantic life?
Carrey has been married twice, first to Melissa Womer, and then to Lauren Holly, whom he met on the set of Dumb and Dumber. He has one child with Womer. Carrey has also dated Jenny McCarthey and Renee Zellwegger, among other actresses in Hollywood. But today, paparazzi believe he remains single.
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Drew Barrymore is no stranger to walking down the aisle. In fact, the Charlie’s Angels actress has been married three times, with one marriage only lasting two months. Barrymore has two children with her third husband, Will Kopelman. Today, Barrymore remains single and considers herself bisexual.
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Perhaps actor Ryan Phillippe’s most notable relationship was his marriage to actress Reese Witherspoon. The couple were together from 1999 to 2008 and had two children. Witherspoon went on to marry talent agent James Toth after their split, but Phillippe remains single.
Even though Hailee Steinfeld is only 24, her dating life has still been covered in nearly every current magazine or tabloid. The “Love Myself” singer and Dickinson actress once dated musician Niall Horan but has since remained single, at least to the public eye.
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When she’s not working on TV or walking down the model runway, Tyra Banks is likely pursuing even more creative ventures. Banks has never been married, but some reports state she is still with her long-term boyfriend, Louis Belanger-Martin.
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Rihanna has had a long history with having her romantic life hit the headlines (think: Chris Brown). Today, Rihanna works extremely hard to produce music and keep her makeup and fashion empire afloat. She presumably does not have a lot of time to date, which might be part of the reason she is currently single.
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Katharine McPhee loves Downton Abbey which follows the history of a fictional British family. With just the right amount of drama, intrigue, and romance, the show pulls you in. Somewhat like an evening soap, but much classier, you can't help but get involved in all the family drama.
Katie Aselton's binge show is Gossip Girl. Watching the new generation of New York City women struggle with life gives her mind a chance to escape. The show is a definite guilty pleasure watching these bumbling privileged girls who have no idea what life is actually all about.
Emma Watson apparently is a massive fan of the American sitcom Friends. In real life, she's a down to earth woman who's relatable. While Watson was only 6 when the show first aired, many of the jokes are as timeless as she is, so it makes sense she would love this modern classic.
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Scriggler
Are you that singer, Rai?
am writing
Past, Present, Future of Rai.
by Rai
Arguably, the most prolific time I had as a songwriter was in 2008 when I moved to Aberdeen, Scotland. I’d gone there to escape from Los Angeles, I’d gone there to discover myself, I’d gone there to work on a vocal/techno project. That project became a battle of the wits, split by creative differences and divergent temperaments. The experience threw me back inside myself. Desperately needing an outlet for my emotions, my Scottish born musical partner made a handful of phone calls to find me a borrowed, broken guitar. It was on that guitar, and in those moments after techno, and wandering the streets of Aberdeen, that I wrote most of the songs that appear on youtube.
I often wonder if it was the energy in Aberdeen or the combination of circumstances that led to such a creative outburst. Nevertheless, none of the songs were ever recorded in any other way. I can remember how to play only a few.
As far back as 2004 I was at odds with the songwriter in me, convincing myself that I wasn’t talented, torturing myself through every spell of writer’s block and then, like the clouds parting, every few years would bring a prolific fit of writing after which I’d be standing at the crossroads wondering why I did it, if it was any good, and if it meant I was truly meant to pursue a career in music.
There’s not many who understand the violence of creation – the overflowing love felt while writing and sharing, followed by the dark, deep depletion after the process is through. The curious part, and most perplexing, is that only in acoustic songwriting did the violence turn to self-destruction.
I would argue that I pour just as much of my soul into my long-hand writing, but never have I ventured to masochism after posting a short story, poem, or blog post.
It’s said, music is the soul of the divine. The expression of which taps into god energy, is akin to a religious experience. Acoustic songwriting brought me to that cathartic state, taught me how to get closer to my emotions, to be more comfortable expressing my truths – truths that I continue to explore.
Songwriting seems, for me, to have been a means to an end, and end which I’ve journeyed to fill with spirituality and mysticism in all its forms- the bottom of a purpose I may never find, if not to have found the digging was all I was ever meant to do.
Picking up my guitar and playing for myself or for others still carries that purifying sensation, a highly medicated healing energy even when the song is sad. That’s the part about it I love. The part I hate is that it’s also a quick way to self-loathing and destructive behavior.
Songwriting provokes the dark sides of my nature. Trying to live in the light while giving breathe to darkness is uncomfortable, to say the least.
Maybe it’s that I’ve never reached a place where the songs stopped helping me. Maybe I’m still a novice in the world of helper and healer and need much, much more personal work before I can use these tools to help other people. Maybe I’ve never been great at nurturing the extroverted version of myself. Whatever the case, I’ll listen to the lot of you who care tell me that I shouldn’t stop, that my songs mean much to you.
I guess what I’d say to you is, I’m looking for ways to help and heal that don’t take so much out of me.
All I ever wanted was to understand the inner workings of the world enough to make some sense of the human ecology. With that knowledge, I endeavor to help, heal, and spread love.
So, what do I wish the reader to understand from this post? Allow me to shuffle the cards…
Three cards: past, present, future.
The Moon can represent a lot of things but here it’s strongly showing the past. The uncertainty of the past is leaving. In the present, the Three of Wands, of which also represents the past, present, and future symbolized by the fact that there are 3 wands. The progression of the vine on the wands helps show this. The figures’ hand is on the newest staff- the future- and he’s got a firm grip on it, a clear sight of what he wants. Those ships in the distance? That’s the goal, and to get there he will use the wisdom embedded in these three staffs, these experiences. The figure isn’t merely waiting, he’s been preparing for this.
In the future comes the careful, meticulous, firm, earthly, dependable, Knight of Coins – one of my favorite Knights because while he may be slow, he’s practical and what he brings is usually something lasting. Like a matured idea, a new business adventure, a turn in career maybe, even someone trustworthy who will help on the journey. Could even mean a venture back to school to further studies in a certain area… whatever the case, the Knight of Coins brings a good, useful, well earned opportunity.
So to the future, I’ve got ideas in my head. Debating if I’m ready to start doing tarot readings or something. There’s a healer in my heart. I’m working on letting her speak.
Talk soon.
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http://www.redwoodcity.org/library
RCPL cultivates community by welcoming all people to experience the shared joys of literacy and learning.
UNITE-HERE Local 2
209 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA, USA
organize@unitehere2.org
https://www.unitehere2.org/
UNITE HERE! Local 2 is the union of 12,000 hospitality workers throughout San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. Our members work in hotels, restaurants, clubs, and other food service facilities, providing service to millions of guests every year. Together, we fight to ensure that service workers are treated decently and receive a fair share of the wealth our industry produces.
Berkeley City College – Auditorium
2050 Center St, Berkeley, CA, USA
berkeley_olli@berkeley.edu
http://www.berkeleycitycollege.edu
Berkeley City College is part of the Peralta Community College District. We are located in downtown Berkeley, just two blocks west of UC Berkeley.
Diesel, a Bookstore – Larkspur
2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, CA, USA
larkspur@dieselbookstore.com
https://www.dieselbookstore.com/
Known for our fascinating selection of titles, stunning author events, enthusiastically diverse staff, and urban California aesthetic, DIESEL is the cutting-edge, high octane, community-radiating, independent neighborhood bookstore we all dream of hanging out in, getting imaginally turned on in, and literarily inspired by.
Make Out Room
3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, USA
+1-415-647-2888+1-415-647-2888
http://www.makeoutroom.com/
PDA encouraged! Why get a room, when you can Make-Out in one of our cozy booths?
Sacred Stream
2149 Byron St, Berkeley, CA, USA
(415) 333 -1434(415) 333 -1434
info@sacredstream.org
https://sacredstream.org/
The Foundation of the Sacred Stream is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the wisdom of ancient spiritual and healing traditions into the consciousness of those interested in being of service in the world.
Walden Pond Books
3316 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA, USA
http://www.waldenpondbooks.com/
Walden Pond Books in Oakland, CA – The San Francisco East Bay’s finest independent bookstore.
Bluestockings
172 Allen Street, New York, NY, USA
212-777-6028.212-777-6028.
info@bluestockings.com
http://bluestockings.com
Bluestockings is a volunteer-powered and collectively-owned radical bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. We carry over 6,000 titles on topics such as feminism, queer and gender studies, global capitalism, climate & environment, political theory, police and prisons, race and black studies, radical education, plus many more! You can also find some good ‘ole smutty fiction, sci-fi, and poetry . We also carry magazines, zines, journals, alternative menstrual products and other oddly hard-to-find good things.
Diesel, a Bookstore – Oakland
5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, USA
https://www.ebbooksellers.com/
Marcus Books
3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA, USA
info@marcusbooksoakland.com
http://marcusbooksoakland.com/
The oldest independent black bookstore in the country. Books by and about black people everywhere.
Salute e Vita Ristorante
1900 Esplanade Drive, Richmond, CA, USA
salute@salutemarinabay.com
http://salutemarinabay.com/
Salute E Vita, remains a home away from home for all lovers of food, art, wine, friends and most of all family, which is who we consider everyone dining with us to be. Our house made desserts, risottos, soups, pasta sauces and salad dressings are created daily. We are best known for fresh Italian cuisine. Whether you are in the mood for pasta or a magnificent entrée salad, fresh seafood or steak, you’ll find it here in our 100-year old Cape Cod Victorian that overlooks the marina waterfront with an elegant and welcoming fireplace dining room, an indoor veranda with stunning views of San Francisco or on our outdoor patio overlooking the Bay. We have a saying here, “at the table, no one grows old” So feel the passion for good food, beauty and friends and join us for lunch or dinner; we have your table ready!
Adobe Books
3130 24th St, San Francisco CA 94110
hello@adobebookshop.com
http://www.adobebooks.com/
Adobe Books opened the doors to their 16th Street Mission District shop in 1989. Almost immediately, it became a haven for artists, musicians, writers, readers, thinkers and locals alike. In 2001, they began the Adobe Books Backroom Gallery to support local artists and in 2012, they moved all of that and their books over to 24th Street. Today, they’re still operating the gallery and still selling books, and in 2018 they hosted 159 public events at no charge to the artists, musicians, poets, writers and thinkers.
Book Passage By-The-Bay
100 Bay Street, Sausalito, CA, USA
https://www.bookpassage.com/
Book Passage By-the-Bay is our newest store, located on the water in scenic downtown Sausalito!
Dog Eared Books – Castro
489 Castro St. San Francisco, CA 94114
castro@dogearedbooks.com
http://www.dogearedbooks.com/castro.html
If you’re looking for a pleasant place to peruse a lot of books, seek no further! Since 1992, Dog Eared Books has been supplying a book-hungry San Francisco with new, used, and remaindered books as well as magazines, calendars, and notebooks. We’re a general interest store, so we have a little of everything, but we do specialize in Beat, off-beat, small press, and local literature. Our staff of is happy to help you locate specific titles or you can roam around discovering wondrous obscurities you never knew you couldn’t live without.
Marines Memorial Theatre
609 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
DianeMyrick@MarineClub.com
https://www.marinesmemorialtheatre.com/
Built in 1926, the historic Marines’ Memorial Theatre is an intimate 564-seat jewel box theatre located in the heart of San Francisco’s theatre district between Union Square and Nob Hill. Recently renovated to expand the lobby and upgrade the orchestra seating to be much more comfortable, our historic Union Square theatre is available as a setting for events in San Francisco, including keynotes, celebrations, educational presentations and more. We are also dedicated to bringing the best national, international and local Music, Dance, Author Talks & Lectures and theatrical or film presentations to Bay Area audiences.
San Francisco Jewish Community Center
3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, USA
https://www.jccsf.org/
The JCCSF has been serving the Bay Area since 1877 with programs that help individuals and the community to flourish.
Bird & Beckett Books and Records
653 Chenery St, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA
eric@birdbeckett.com
http://www.birdbeckett.com/
Bird & Beckett Books and Records is a cozy shop in the Glen Park neighborhood where you can shop local authors and artists, participate in poetry open mics, hear live jazz every week, and learn more about The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project. This nonprofit organization presents, documents and archives the creative work of living writers and musicians in the Bay Area.
The Booksmith
1644 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA 0.17 km
orders@booksmith.com
https://www.booksmith.com/
The Booksmith has been the indie book headquarters of Haight-Ashbury for more than 40 years. Since 2007, the store has been owned and operated by Christin Evans and her husband who also revamped the famous Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park. Driven by the mission to reestablish bookshops as community gathering places, The Booksmith team has created an event venue, a second home, a book-loving community and so much more.
St. Ignatius Parish
650 Parker Ave, San Francisco, CA, USA 0.7 km
info@stignatiussf.org
https://www.stignatiussf.org/
Saint Ignatius Parish is a welcoming and inclusive Catholic community. A Jesuit parish, we are called to be companions of Jesus. We come together through Word and Sacrament to grow in our relationship with God and to find the inspiration, desire and strength to be men and women for others. We seek to find God in all things by deepening our faith, listening with discerning and joyful hearts, and actively serving the poor and suffering, all for the greater glory of God.
Green Apple Books on the Park
1231 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA, USA 1.44 km
http://greenapplebooks.com
A branch of the legendary Green Apple Books (6th & Clement), situated just outside of Golden Gate Park.
489 Castro St. San Francisco, CA 94114 1.7 km
Books Inc. in Laurel Village
3515 California St, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA 1.91 km
https://www.booksinc.net/SFLaurel
Anton Roman began selling books in 1851, but his legendary bookstore didn’t become Books Inc. until 1946. From then on, their history has been defined by their indie character as they fought and survived the expansion of huge national book companies. Today, they operate 11 stores in San Francisco, East Bay and the Peninsula, and have become the West’s oldest independent bookseller.
Green Apple Books
506 Clement St, San Francisco, CA, USA 1.95 km
query@greenapplebooks.com
https://www.greenapplebooks.com/
For 50 years, Green Apple has served as a bookstore to get lost in. With two different locations, three buildings, and innumberable nooks and crannies to get lost in, Green Apple cultivates the feeling of getting lost in a good book.
3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, USA 2.04 km
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street, San Francisco, CA, USA 2.04 km
info@jccsf.org
The JCCSF has something for everyone – San Francisco families, fitness lovers, casual creatives, tiny swimmers and more. Everyone is welcome. We invite you to stop by and relax in our atrium, try a new skill, get inspired by top lecturers and find out all of the ways you can learn, create and celebrate with us.
San Francisco Zen Center
300 Page Street, San Francisco, CA, USA 2.26 km
http://sfzc.org/
San Francisco Zen Center is a Soto Zen community where the offerings of zazen, study and work practice are available to a diverse population of students, visitors, lay people, priests, and monks. All are welcome.
Charlie’s Corner Bookstore
4102 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA 2.48 km
info@charliescorner.com
https://charliescorner.com/
Charlie’s Corner is an independent neighborhood bookstore carrying a wide assortment of children’s and young adult literature. We cater to every child’s needs by providing a rich and dynamic selection of exciting new titles as well as children’s classics that span generations. Through our interactive story times featuring music, food, Spanish, and French storytellers, we hope to help children explore and develop a love for stories in a creative and cozy environment.
Folio Books
3957 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, USA 2.68 km
folio@foliobooks.com.au
https://foliobooks.com.au/
Folio Books is an independent neighborhood bookstore in San Francisco that welcomes visitors from near and far.
Nourse Theatre
275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, USA 2.8 km
info@cityarts.net
http://cityarts.net
Built in 1927, the Nourse [275 Hayes Street] is a landmark venue located in the heart of San Francisco’s performing arts district (across the street from Davies Hall musicians’ entrance). City Arts & Lectures restored and reopen the stunning 1,687-seat hall in 2013 (it was closed to the public for over thirty years). The hall features original architectural details, excellent acoustics, and a well-designed layout with unobstructed views throughout the orchestra and balcony, as well as state of the art lighting, a Meyer Sound system, new curtains, plush upholstered seats, newly decorated green room, and a dressing room. The Nourse is an ideal venue for a wide range of performances and a uniquely beautiful setting.
Borderlands Books
866 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, USA 2.85 km
webmail@borderlands-books.com
https://borderlands-books.com/
Borderlands Books is a San Francisco independent bookstore specializing exclusively in science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Dog Eared Books – Valencia
http://www.dogearedbooks.com/valencia.html
Books Inc. in Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA 2.99 km
https://www.booksinc.net/SFOpera
Books Inc. is the West’s oldest independent bookseller – we’ve been around since 1851 – and Opera Plaza is our largest location!
San Francisco City Hall
1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl, San Francisco, CA, USA 3.04 km
http://www.sfgov.org/cityhall
The City Hall you see today took two years to build. Steel, granite, and four floors of white marble interiors make up San Francisco’s symbol of resilience, built after the previous City Hall was destroyed in the Great Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906.
3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, USA 3.2 km
Omnivore Books
3885 Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA 3.23 km
info@omnivorebooks.com
http://www.omnivorebooks.com/
Welcome to Omnivore Books on Food featuring new, antiquarian, and collectible books on food and drink.
Omnivore connects the past to the present by offering centuries of knowledge on growing, raising, and cooking food. We offer everything from 19th Century agricultural guides to how to start a kitchen garden in a 21st Century apartment.
100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA, USA 3.29 km
publicaffairs@sfpl.org
https://sfpl.org/
The San Francisco Public Library system is dedicated to free and equal access to information, knowledge, independent learning, and the joys of reading for our diverse community.
The Bookshop West Portal
80 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA 3.52 km
info@bookshopwestportal.com
https://www.bookshopwestportal.com/
BookShop West Portal is a locally-owned, independent bookstore located in the heart of the West Portal neighborhood, just one block down from the West Portal MUNI Station and right across from the Empire Movie Theatre.
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New Silicon Valley Community Foundation CEO focused on rebuilding
by Kyle Martin
January 23, 2019April 9, 2020
Nicole Taylor introduces herself as the new CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation at the Sobrato Center for Nonprofits. She succeeds former CEO Emmett Carson, who resigned last year after amid a misconduct scandal. (photo courtesy of Kyle Martin)
While many in Silicon Valley recall the scandal of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Nicole Taylor, the foundation’s new chief executive, is ready to turn a new leaf.
Taylor replaces former Silicon Valley Community Foundation CEO Emmett Carson, after he resigned following claims of misconduct by a top foundation executive, Mary Ellen Loijens.
Loijens resigned due to allegations of sexual harassment of employees.
The investigations and Carson’s resignation, caused an administrative shakeup within the foundation, and notoriety in the media when foundation workers slammed him for failing to address Loijens’ alleged repeated wrongdoings.
In the wake of the former administration’s departure, Taylor said she and her team have continued “rebuilding the cultures and the values within this organization.”
She said the healing process began before she accepted the job with the creation of an internal task force for foundation employees to voice their concerns and sustain a safe working environment. Apart from the foundation’s recent scandal, Taylor said the foundation’s donors are still there and “the fundamentals remain the same.”
“We’re not starting from zero,” Taylor said.
When Taylor introduced herself during a meet-and-greet with members of the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits on Tuesday, she began by introducing other board members in the room. Then she told her story.
“I grew up in Los Angeles and I’m a daughter of an immigrant,” she said in a full room at the Sobrato Center for Nonprofits. “People are always surprised when I say that because even those of us who are in the fight have preconceived notions of what an immigrant family looks like.”
Taylor’s mother came to America from Jamaica as an unpaid domestic worker for a Chinese family. Her mother wasn’t paid until she began working for the family’s business. By that time Taylor was in high school.
Her mother immigrated “with barely a sixth-grade education,” Taylor said. But her mother also had different plans for her. Taylor’s mother would drive her to school and tell her “you’re going to make something of yourself.”
“I lived in two different worlds,” she said. The American world, and the poor immigrant world.
She recently moved back to California from Arizona, where she served as vice president of the Arizona State University foundation and as deputy vice president and dean of students. Before Arizona, she spent about half her adult life in the Bay Area, earning a full-ride to Stanford where she received her undergraduate degree in human biology and master’s degree in education.
And her career took off from there, beginning in the Oakland public school system where she was an educator.
“I knew that education was going to be our way out of poverty,” she said, “so as soon as I could moved her out of the family and in with me.”
Since then, Taylor has worked in education from kindergarten through college, ran the East Bay Community Foundation as president and CEO and served as Stanford’s associate vice provost of student affairs and dean of community engagement and diversity.
“I tell that story because that is what fuels me to do the work that I do,” Taylor said. “The struggles and realities of the families and communities that we serve here, I know very intimately and care very deeply about because I lived it.”
As the new head of the largest philanthropic organization in the country, Taylor said she wants to plugged into the needs, cultures and meetings of her foundation’s partners to continue opening doors for marginalized communities.
During the meet-and-greet, Taylor asked for input from representatives of dozens of nonprofits in Silicon Valley. They voiced concerns related to their own work.
Lack of housing, funding for senior care, displacement of small businesses by tech-giants, lack of in-home caregivers, difficulty hiring nonprofit staff, poor workers needing “a house and a spouse” — all of these are concerns voiced directly to Taylor on Tuesday.
But Taylor said she’s had to “turn the ship” around before — and that she’s ready to take on the challenges in front of her.
“With Nicole’s leadership, experience and commitment to serving local communities, I know SVCF will continue to make a profound impact,” said Greg Avis, SVCF’s interim president and founding chairman, in a November 2018 press release. “I am confident that SVCF’s talented staff will flourish under her guidance. I look forward to working with Nicole over the coming months as she transitions into the role.”
Leslye Corsiglia, executive director for nonprofit Silicon Valley At Home, said the foundation is a key component to her organization’s success. She said the foundation’s new leadership is a sign of positive growth in this region.
“I think it’s great that they have a new leader who is looking to bring the organization forward,” Corsiglia said. “Nicole showed us today that she’s committed.”
Contact Kyle Martin at [email protected] or follow him @Kyle_Martin35 on Twitter.
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The Five: Tony Award Snarkdown
Anthony R. Miller checks in (on a different day) with smart ass comments about this year’s Tony Award nominations.
Hey you guys, looks like I didn’t get nominated for a Tony again, although my long-term plan for a regional Tony is still rock solid. In case you didn’t hear (due to the lack of Wi-Fi in the cave you live in) the nominations for the Tony Awards came out on Tuesday. If you haven’t seen ‘em yet, go to www.tonyawards.com and get with it. It’s cool, I’ll wait…
All caught up? Great, now we can dive in to a few of my own observations. And wouldn’t you know it, there are five.
So Apparently Hamilton is Pretty Good
With a record 16 nominations, Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton might as well just sit onstage all night. I mean, that’s why we’re all watching right? It’s been about 20 years since a Broadway musical has been such a cultural phenomenon, which is depressing. But I guess we’ll take what we can get. Sure, it might not be fun to be one of the other nominated musicals who will probably not have as triumphant a night, but the fact that a whole crapload of people who would have never watched the Tony Awards are gonna watch is something to celebrate.
I Can’t Hear You
It’s hard for me to be witty when I’m genuinely mad about something. But the fact that there is no longer an award for Sound Design is total garbage. You would think they would bring it back this year just for the sake of giving Hamilton another award. Seriously though, sound designers are artists, and in many cases, friggin’ miracle workers. The art of sound design evolved beyond sound effects and intermission music a long time ago. Maybe I’m spoiled because the Bay Area boasts some brilliant sound designers. So hug a sound designer today, they make your show sound good.
Every Day I’m Shufflin’
Let’s give credit to Shuffle Along. In a Best New Musical category populated by musicals about historical events (Hamilton and Bright Star) and musicals based on movies (Waitress and School of Rock), Shuffle Along is a musical based on a musical. So there’s that.
Good for You, Arthur Miller
The Best Revival of a Play I Had To Read In College Category features Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Noises Off, Blackbird, and two, count ’em, two Arthur Miller plays (The Crucible and A View from the Bridge). So keep your eye out for that up-and-comer Arthur Miller, he’s going places.
We Love It When Our Casual Acquaintances Become Successful
So if local hero Daveed Diggs wins for Best Performance By An Actor In A Featured Role In A Musical, I will boast not one, BUT TWO Tony award winners on my Facebook friends list. In 1998, I was an ASM for a production of Children of Eden at American Musical Theatre of San Jose. This particular production featured a young fella named James Monroe Inglehart, we became dear, dear friends, OK, not really. But a few years later I served him shitty Chinese food and he totally recognized me. Then he went on to be the Genie in the Broadway production of Aladdin and took home the Tony. Now we have an actor whom I saw once in a production of Six Degrees of Separation, everybody in the Bay Area has been in a play with, someone whom I exchanged 3-4 actual emails with a few years ago about producing a one-man show that never happened. Daveed Diggs is a swell dude (based on our in-depth email correspondence) and it’s always great to see local actors go on to success right after they leave the Bay Area. So here’s to hoping the list of successful people I kinda know just gets bigger. Unless of course they’re a goddamned sound designer.
Don’t forget to watch on June 12th!!!
Anthony R. Miller is Writer, Producer and Theatre Nerd, keep with him at www.awesometheatre.org and on twitter @armiller78
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Theater Around The Bay: The Great Blog Recap of 2015 Part II
Today we bring you three more annual round ups from three more of our core blogging team: Ashley Cowan, Will Leschber, and Dave Sikula! More tomorrow and the Stueys on Thursday!
The Top Five Thank Yous of 2015 by Ashley Cowan
1) You’re inspirational, Molly Benson
Aside from the incredible PianoFight mosaic we all continue to marvel at each time we’re in its proximity, you’ve managed to continue bursting through the creative scene while balancing parenting a small child (which I’ve personally found to be an incredibly difficult thing to do). You’re acting, you’re lending your voice to various projects, you’re making art, and you’re out there inspiring me to keep trying. So thank you and please keep it up!
2) You’re so great to work with, San Francisco Fringe Festival
2015 was the second year I had the chance to be a part of the SF Fringe Festival alongside Banal+ with Nick and Lisa Gentile, Warden Lawlor, Dan Kurtz, Tavis Kammet, and Will Leschber. (And this year, Eden Davis and Katrina Bushnell joined the cast making it even stronger!) Now, I always love working with this dynamic bunch but this time around, I was returning to the stage after a two year hiatus and straight off of having a baby and returning to work full time. Thankfully, everyone was so flexible and kind that when I had to leave a show immediately after my performance (skipping the other pieces in the lineup and curtain call) to relieve our babysitter, I was greeted with support and understanding. It made all the difference so thank you again.
3) You trusted me to be a 90’s (Rose McGowan inspired) teenager, Anthony Miller
Last year when I had to back out of TERROR-RAMA, I was pretty crushed. I don’t totally know how I lucked out in getting a second chance with this October’s reading of TERROR-RAMA 2: PROM NIGHT but oh, man, I loved it. After feeling a bit rusty and uncomfortable in my post baby body, Anthony Miller and Colin Johnson let me play this sexy queen vampire 90’s teen. And I had the best time. Anthony’s script is truly hilarious and under Colin’s direction, the reading was a great success. But I was also left with that electric, “yes! This is why I do this!” feeling after I had the chance to be involved and for that, I’m super grateful. Thank you, Anthony. And thank you Rose McGowan.
4) You Made Me Love Being an Audience Member Again, In Love and Warcraft
One of my theatrical regrets from this past year was not singing praises or appropriately applauding creative teams when I had the chance. In this case, I didn’t really take the opportunity to give a shout out to all involved in Custom Made’s recent show, In Love And Warcraft. I was unfamiliar with most of the cast but, wow, they were delightful. The script was smart, sweet, and funny (and totally played to my nerdy romantic sensibilities) and the whole thing came together into such an enjoyable theater experience. I had such fun being in the audience and invited into a world of warcraft and new love. Thank you, thank you.
5) You Make Me Feel Tall and Proud, Marissa Skudlarek
In our two part Theater Pub blog series, Embracing the Mirror, Marissa and I uncovered new heights. Or, really, uncovered the heights that had been there all along and allowed us to kind of honor them. I’m so thankful that Marissa suggested this collaboration because the topic allowed me to reconnect with tall actress friends from my past while reevaluating my own relationship to my height. Plus, getting to do it with Marissa was a treat in itself. So thank you, Marissa for continuing to positively push this blog forward and allowing me to stand next to you!
Top Five 2015 Films That Should Be Adapted Into A Stage Play by Will Leschber
Hi all! Since I spend most of the year trying to smash together the space between theater and film, why not just come out with it and say which bright shining films of 2015 should end up on our great stages here in San Francisco. So here are the top 5 films of 2015 that should be adapted to a San Franciscan stage production…and a Bay Area Actor who’d fit perfectly in a key role!
Now, since my knowledge of the vast pool of Bay Area creative performers isn’t what it used to be, lets just get fun and totally subjective and pull this recommendation list from a single show! And not just a single show… a single show that Theater Pub put up… AND I was in: Dick 3… Stuart Bousel’s bloody adaptation of Richard III. Yeah, talk about nepotism, right? Booyah… lets own this!
This film adaption of the acclaimed book by Emma Donoghue would fit easily into a restricted stage production with the cloying enclosed location in which most of the action takes place. It’s a moving story dictated by creative perspective and wonderful acting, things that shine onstage. Brie Larson owns the film’s main performance but it if a bay area actress could give it a go, I’d love to see Jeunée Simon radiate in this role. Her youthful energy, subtle power, and soulful spirit would kick this one out of the park.
4) Steve Jobs
Regardless of the Aaron Sorkin lovers or haters out there, this film is written like a three-act play and would work supremely well on stage, as it does on screen. It’s talky and quick-paced as long as you keep up the clip of lip that the script demands. The perfect pairing to tackle this towering role of Steve Jobs and his “work wife” Joanna Hoffman (played respectively by Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet) would look excellent cast with Jessica Rudholm as Steve Jobs (Jessica is an unbelievably powerful performer and can command any room she steps into…perfect for Jobs) and Megan Briggs as the Joanna Hoffman character: resourceful, smart and can stand up to powerful chest-puffing men. Done!
3) Mistress America
This buoyant film by Noah Baumbach follows a New York pseudo-socialite, Brooke, embodied perfectly by Greta Gerwig, who has to fall a bit from her idealized youthful 20s phase of life towards something a bit more….self-realized…aka adulthood. At times a situation-farce houseguest comedy, and other times a story of searching for self discovery, the themes would read equally beautifully on stage. The second lead in this film is a bright-eyed, I-know-everything-in-the-world college freshman named Tracy, who befriends our beloved Brooke character. It’s a dual journey. Allison Page has more confidence than all the college freshman I know. She’d play the crap out of that! And for the main Greta Gerwig part… this is a hard role to fill with quirk and empathy, so I’d say let’s give Sam Bertken a shot at it! Sam as a performer has the whimsy of a confident yet lost late-20-something, but the charm and determination to persevere with her/his quirk intact.
This journalistic procedural which chronicles the story behind the Pulitzer-winning newspaper story of sexual abuse and the Catholic Church would be a heavy sit. But the story is powerful, the characters are true, and the setting lends itself to small scale theater. To play the stalwart Spotlight department newspaper lead editor, played by Michael Keaton in the film, lets go with Carl Lucania who’d give the role a nice imprint. AND to boot, the Mark Ruffalo character (who is the shoulder of the film, in my opinion) would be handled wonderfully by Paul Jennings. These two have the exact performing skills to juxtapose unrelenting determination and quiet, frustrated fury which fit perfectly for this story.
1) Inside Out
Now I hear you…animated films with complex imaginary landscapes and vistas filled with old memories might not immediately scream stage production. But if The Lion King, King Kong or even Beauty & the Beast can do it, I know some insanely talented set designers, costume designers and lighting specialists could bring this world to life. More importantly, the themes of passing away from youthful phases of life, how hard and lonely a childhood transition can be, plus learning that life isn’t simply divided into happy/sad/angry/scared memories. The complicated reality is that our selves and our memories are colored with a mad mix of many diverse emotions and characteristics. Coming of age with this palette of imagination would be glorious on stage. And who better to play the central character named Joy, than the joyful Brian Martin. He just adorable…all the time.
Five Things I Learned on My Last New York Trip by Dave Sikula
1) “Traditional” Casting Is Over
Well, not totally, obviously, but as Hamilton showed (among so many other things), anyone can play anything. I’m old enough to remember when musicals had all-white casts, then, little by little, there would be one African American male and one African American female in the ensemble, and they always danced together. Gradually, you began to see more and more people of color in choruses, and they were now free to interact with anyone. Now, of course, pretty much any role is up for grabs by any actor of any race or gender – or should be. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see an Asian female eventually playing Hamilton himself. Whether this – and the other innovations of Hamilton – percolates into more mainstream fare remains to be seen, but it’s certainly to be hoped.
2) A Good Director Can Make Even the Most Tired War-Horse Fresh and Vital
For my money, there aren’t many major playwrights whose work has aged more badly than Arthur Miller. Yeah, Death of Salesman is still powerful, but the rest of the canon isn’t faring so well. Years and years ago, I saw a lousy production of A View from the Bridge, and even then, it struck me as obvious, tired, and dull. Ivo van Hove’s production, then, had a couple of hurdles to overcome: 1) it’s a London import, and 2) it’s, well, it’s A View from the Bridge. Van Hove’s 2004 production of Hedda Gabler (surely one of the worst “important” plays ever written) was enough of a revelation that I wanted to see what he could do with this one, and boy, did he come through. Tough, powerful, and visceral, it’s nothing so much as what we hear Greek tragedy was so good at. It was so good, I’m anxious to see his upcoming production of The Crucible, and see if he can make another truly terrible play interesting.
3) Even a Good Director Can’t Make a Tired Old War-Horse Work
In 2008, Bartlett Sher directed Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, a show I’d seen too much and from which (I’d thought) all the juice had long since been squeezed. By digging deep into the text and back story, though, Sher and company were able to make it vital, exciting, and relevant. Flash forward to last year and the reunion of some of the band to remount The King and I, another show whose time has all but passed. Despite breathtaking sets, more delving into two-dimensional characters by very good actors (Hoon Lee and Kelli O’Hara are doing superb work in the title parts), and marvelous staging, it just sits there. The problem to these tired old eyes is that musical dramaturgy of today doesn’t always fit well with that of the early 1950s, and the show itself just has too many fundamental flaws to work anymore. It’s a pity, because a lot of time and effort is being expended in a futile effort to make the unworkable work. In the words of Horace, “The mountain labors, and brings forth … a mouse!”
4) There Is No Show So Bad That No One Will See It
We’ve dealt with the awfulness of China Doll before. Despite barely having a script and offering audiences little more than the chance to watch Al Pacino alternately get fed his lines and chew scenery, it’s still drawing people. Sure, that attendance is falling week by week, but last week, it was still 72% full and took in more than $600,000. Running costs can’t be that much (two actors, one set), but even with what imagines is a monumental amount being paid Mr. Pacino, it’s probably still making money. If I may (correctly) quote the late Mr. Henry L. Mencken of Baltimore: “No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
5) It’s Still Magical
Despite the heavy lifting of New York theatre being done off- and off-Broadway and regionally, there’s still something that can’t be duplicated in seeing a really good show on Broadway that has a ton of money thrown at it – especially one you weren’t expecting anything from. I went into shows like An American in Paris or Something Rotten or – especially – Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 knowing next to nothing about them and came out enthralled and invigorated by what writers can create and actors can do. In the best cases, they give me something to shoot at. (And in the worst, multiple lessons on what to avoid … )
Ashley Cowan is an actress, playwright, director and general theater maker in the Bay Area, alongside writer/actor husband, Will Leschber. Dave Sikula is an actor, writer, director and general theater maker in the Bay Area who has been in plays with Ashley and Will, but never both at the same time.
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It’s A Suggestion Not A Review: What’s Playing at the Roxy?*
Dave Sikula, in which the author begins to dissect his recent trip to New York.
As I start writing this, I’m sitting in my hotel room in New York, fully aware of three things:
1) I really should be in bed, since I have to pack up tomorrow morning.
2) I am going to have one hell of a time packing everything.
3) I really should be working on the work assignment I have that I hope to deal with on the plane tomorrow.
While I’m fully aware that I have what has been described as a negative approach to things, I prefer to think of it as both contrarian and snobbish (see here for my previous post on that issue). Yet, despite that rep (which could be easily proven incorrect by doing one of those stupid “here are the words I use most on Facebook” word clouds – something that just reeks to me of intrusive marketing), I found myself having a great time at eight of the ten shows (or ten of twelve, if one counts seeing Colbert and a cabaret show), and even the two misfires weren’t that bad – well, China Doll was, but that’s something to be dealt with later.
While I’m going to deal with this trip on a broader level later in the year (something I know you’ll all be waiting for … ), I wanted to do a post-mortem on what I saw.
When I plan a trip to New York, I’m lucky enough that I can usually schedule it for a long enough period that I can see pretty much everything I want to. In this case, that meant arriving on a Tuesday and leaving on the Thursday of the next week, giving me the opportunity to take advantage of three matinee/two-for-one days.
The festivities began with Stephan Karam’s The Humans. I’d seen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet a few years ago, so I was interested in seeing this follow-up. It’s a very good production of a very interesting script; that is as much about the Thanksgiving dinner that is its center as the previous play was about being Lebanese-American. The family dynamics are incisive and sharply observed, and it’ll probably get produced all over the country once designers work out how to re-invent its two-story set.
Because set designers need challenges, don’t they?
Wednesday matinee: Robert Askins’s Hand to God. Another one that deserves a long shelf-life, but good luck to the actors who’ll be cast in the central role that combines puppetry with playing off one’s self with possible demonic possession and a bunch of swearing and simulated sex. Of particular interest was Bob Saget, new to the cast as a straight-laced pastor, but really quite good, but who paled – as most actors would – in comparison to Stephen Boyer’s work as the lead.
The next show was David Mamet’s China Doll, which I was starting to write about, but quickly realized that it’s going to take a whole post in itself to deal with – and that’s for next time. Suffice it to say that, when we heard about this one, we jumped at the chance to go. Granted, Mamet hasn’t written a good play since the ‘80s and Pacino isn’t what he once was, but still, the possibilities were there – especially since the notoriously phallocentric Mamet was actually allowing a woman – Pam MacKinnon – to direct. It’s a perfect example, though, of how Broadway in the 21st century isn’t what it was even 20 years ago.
This is not a still photo. This is a live feed of the action.
Friday: Hamilton. We planned the trip around when we could get tickets. Now, unlike many folks, I wanted to go in cold. I had heard a little of the score (it’s next to impossible to avoid), and knew the basics of the conceit and approach. Now, while I kinda wish I’d exposed myself to the cast album (please note: not a soundtrack … ), I was floored. It was that rare occasion where, going in, my expectations were high, and the product not only met them, they left them in the dust. It’s an utterly phenomenal show and I can’t say enough good things about it. Everything you’ve heard? All true.
I was a little iffy about the next three shows; two because of my growing Anglothropism (that is to say, not buying into the idea that, just because a show has a London pedigree, it’s going to be good), and the third because it’s a dumb musical comedy. All three were brilliant though, starting with Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, directed by Ivo Van Hove (whose production of Hedda Gabler – a play I really dislike – was staggeringly good). This is an amazing production, played as the Greek tragedy Miller alluded to, muscular, tough, and no-holds-barred. The production offers on-stage seating, and I was no more than a couple of feet from the actors, so it was even more intense.
Yeah. It’s that kind of a show
The second of the three was by John O’Farrell, Karey Kirkpatrick, and Wayne Kirkpatrick’s musical Something Rotten!, which is that rarest of creatures – an original musical that opened directly on Broadway. I was leery, but had been told (by my wife, no less) that it was hysterically funny – and it is. It’s everything “a Broadway musical comedy” should be: smart, funny, and lively; full of allusions to other musicals and cast with actors who really know how to land the material.
The last of this troika was Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III, a “future history” play set during the early days of the reign of the next British monarch, written (mostly) in iambic pentameter and blank verse and doing all it can to take on Shakespeare at his own game. It’s a risk, but pays off mightily, with a towering central performance by Tim Pigott-Smith, but the rest of the cast comes close to matching him. A riveting afternoon.
Next was a pair of disappointments, lacking for similar reasons. The first was Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, which I was looking forward to. The director, Bartlett Sher, showed an astonishing ability to wring every ounce of drama out of South Pacific, turning a war horse into a thoroughbred, and I had hopes he’d be able to repeat that magic here. While the production itself is everything one might hope – fine performances, beautiful sets and staging – the show itself just can’t match the production. I don’t expect there could be a better version of the show, but – for better or worse – its dramaturgy is locked into the early ‘50s, and musicals just aren’t written that way anymore. (Where I want numbers that delve into psychology, I got “hit tunes,” and characters who have – justifiably – been speaking in pigeon English all evening suddenly become fluently poetic when singing).
The second was Simon Stephens’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which, despite its many admirable qualities and intentions, just didn’t work for me. It’s an outstanding production, but that was the problem. It’s so overwhelming and facile that it covers up that there’s not much of a play underneath. I can’t imagine how another production of it – that doesn’t have a mammoth budget – will be able to tell the story.
Finally, I like to end my trips with something that will leave me with a glow of some sort; usually – but not necessarily – something uplifting, so I decided on Craig Lucas’s adaptation of An American in Paris, with a score by George and Ira Gershwin. From almost the opening moments, the show packed a particular punch. Given the still-fresh attacks on Paris, its start – detailing the German occupation of France and its aftermath (something the show was criticized for when it opened) – set things in a context that give it an immediacy and power that was shocking. The show itself is, well, lovely. One expects a dancy musical full of tap and “Broadway” dancing, and one gets an evening of breathtaking ballet (okay; there is one tap number … ). It’s moving and human in all the best ways – and couldn’t have been a better finale to my trip.
Boy, howdy.
Next time: the dullness that was China Doll.
(*Nothing, actually. The Roxy was a movie theatre, anyway, and was torn down in 1960.)
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It’s A Suggestion, Not A Review: The Topic That Wouldn’t Die
Dave Sikula, sliding in just before the weekend kicks off.
It’s the damnedest thing.
I don’t know what it is about this line of inquiry, but this series of posts garnered more clicks – and even Facebook shares – than anything else I’ve written. As far as I can tell, though, this will be the last entry for now on the topic. (We’ll see what happens in about 800 words when I realize I still have more to say and don’t want to strain your patience.)
Let me deal with the Arthur Miller reference I made in the last colyum. I need to preface that, though, with some background on Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre.
If I won’t link to it, I should at least show it.
Looking at their website, it seems like they’re a company dedicated to screwing around with other people’s creations while relentlessly patting themselves on the back for doing so. Consider this blurb for “Miss Julie:” “August Strindberg’s masterpiece has been hovering in the wings at Belvoir for a while now, waiting for the right people: Leticia Cáceres and Brendan Cowell both know how to combine tender and brutal to devastating effect. Simon Stone joins them with a rewrite of the play in the fashion of his The Wild Duck.” Note the “his” there, which refers to Mr. Stone, and not either the late Mr. Strindberg or the late Mr. Ibsen. Pretty much every description of the plays they produce refers to an “adaptation” of this or “a contemporary version” of that. Not content to adhere to the intentions of the playwright, they’ve decided that their only responsibility is to themselves.
Mind you, I’m not saying this would be Ibsen’s opinion of Stone, but …
In 2012, Mr. Stone decided to produce Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” – or, at least, some of it. According to Terry Teachout’s report:
Not only did he cut the play’s epilogue, but he altered the manner in which Willy Loman, Arthur Miller’s protagonist, meets his death. In the original play, Willy dies in a car crash that may or may not have been intentional; in Mr. Stone’s staging, he commits suicide by gassing himself. On top of that, Belvoir neglected to inform ICM Partners, the agency that represents Mr. Miller’s estate and licenses his plays for production around the world, that Mr. Stone was altering the script.
Since rewriting dead playwrights seems to be Stone’s stock in trade, I can see why he didn’t feel the author’s representatives were worth notifying. I’m actually surprised he was did something as boring, traditional, and mundane as casting a male actor as Willy. They’re currently doing “Hedda Gabler” (a play that’s dismal enough) with a male actor playing Hedda. Because A) it’s supposed to make a statement about gender roles and B) apparently there aren’t any women in Sydney who are capable of playing the part.
Hedda Gabler, ladies and gents.
Mr. Stone’s defense of his bastardized presentation of Miller’s play was “”Until recently we accepted the Broadway or West End way of treating their classics, now we are bringing to them an Australian sensibility and technique. The world is responding.” Since the “Australian sensibility and technique” seems to involve violating copyright and ignoring a writer’s intentions, it’s no wonder the world is “responding” – mainly by refusing him the rights to do anything. A look at their current season shows rewrites of “Oedipus” (two of them!), “The Inspector General” (“inspired by Nikolai Gogol” – who only wrote the goddamn thing), “Nora,” (“after ‘A Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen”), “A Christmas Carol” (“after Charles Dickens”) and “Cinderella.” They’re also doing “The Glass Menagerie,” but I’d imagine the rights-holders are keeping a close watch on them.
This kind of conduct goes to the heart of how the Facebook discussion about the Mamet case went. The opinions ranged from the conviction that the writer owns his or her words and has every right to determine how they’re presented to an audience, to a belief that since plays are more intangible things than physical, they should the property of any director or actor who wanted to do anything they wanted with them. One poster tried to make his case by saying that if I bought a shirt, he was free to do whatever he wanted with it: cut off the sleeves, dye it, or whatever. Never mind that he’s not buying that particular shirt; he’s borrowing it from someone who probably won’t appreciate the alterations.
“Here’s your shirt back — or at least all the pieces.”
We Get Letters:
Eric L. writes: “How do you think this incident compares to the Beckett’s objection and legal action against Akalaitis’s production of Endgame?”
Thanks for asking, Eric. As expected, though, I’ve reached my weekly limit and will return to this topic next time
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It’s A Suggestion, Not A Review: Just Because You Can Do Something Doesn’t Mean You Have To
Dave Sikula continues his discussion of Directors Gone Wild…
So, you may recall that I was reminded of this whole thing by a question from the “Farnsworth” audience about whether we could have just written a prologue or an epilogue contextualizing Sorkin’s play. And while I suppose we could have, it would have been pushing the boundaries of our contractual obligation.
“Now that our curtain call is over, may we tell you the true history?”
Not that that sort of thing stops other directors – and we’ll open that particular can of worms once I give this context. (I’m apparently all about “context” right now.)
Earlier on the Sunday on which the question above was asked, I’d read a story online about the Alchemist theatre in the Milwaukee are getting a cease-and-desist order that shut down their production of David Mamet’s “Oleanna.”
I’d have shut them down just for having lousy publicity photos.
“Oleanna” is a play that had a relevance for about five minutes in the late 90s. The plot concerns a male college professor who’s accused of sexually harassing – if not downright abusing – a female student. I acted in the play back in the late 90s, so I know it pretty well. My experience with the play was not a happy one; the director was the kind of guy who would give notes like “I didn’t want you to stand there; I wanted you to stand here,” while pointing at a spot about a quarter-inch away. Plus, his daughter was playing the woman. (She was good, but still …). My understanding of the play – and I hate to ascribe motives, but Mamet is famously closed-mouthed about the meaning of his work (to the point where he even refuses to reveal what the play’s title means) – is that he thinks he’s written a Shavian dialogue that examines power relationships, with both sides getting fair treatment. In reality, the professor is pedantic and clueless (my long-suffering wife was of the opinion that it was a role that was tailor-made for me. I offer no comment on that opinion …) and the woman is written as something of a simpleton who’s acting at the behest of her “group” (a sinister cabal of feminists).
The Alchemist Theatre decided to cast to cast two men in the play, not only muddying the issues and the gender politics, but incurring the wrath of Mamet. In Mamet’s early days, he wrote some brilliant plays, but in recent years, he’s become something of a crank. Politics aside, he hasn’t written a very good play for a couple of decades. (Let me say here that I don’t mind his turn to conservatism. I’ve often said that I wish conservatives had more of a presence in the theatre, if only to force me to defend my own positions.)
He’s stated his conviction that there are no characters in plays; there are only words on a page, and it behooves actors in his plays to merely recent the words; not to give meaning to them. Anyone who’s suffered through the films he’s directed will know exactly how that comes across. The “performances” given by (in particular) his wives have been wooden enough to restore the Brazilian rainforest to their full splendor. Regardless, he’s notorious for watching over who does his plays and in demanding that his plays be done only in the way he intended. (I recall about a decade ago, someone I was working with wanted to do something of his, and they were turned down flat, for no apparent reason.) In short, if you screw around with Mamet’s plays, you’re just asking for trouble.
Given his litigiousness, I’d never dare say that
Mr. Mamet looks like a self-important tool here.
The good people at Alchemist must have known this, in that (according to reports) they kept the all-male casting a secret until the show began previews. From the local reports, it sounds like they knew they were going to get into trouble, but decided it was better to ask forgiveness than to seek permission.
In a statement issued Friday evening, Erica Case and Aaron Kopec, owners of Alchemist Theatre, said: “We excitedly brought this story to the stage because even though it was written years ago, the unfortunate story that it tells is still relevant today. We auditioned for this show looking for the best talent, not looking for a gender. When Ben Parman auditioned we saw the reality that this relationship, which is more about power, is not gender-specific but gender-neutral.”
This strikes me as disingenuous at best. As a director, if I know I’m casting a play that is written for one man and one woman, I’m not going to go into auditions seeking to do gender-blind casting – and I can’t believe that, in the greater Milwaukee area, there weren’t actresses who were capable of performing the role.
“We stayed true to each of David Mamet’s powerful words and did not change the character of Carol but allowed the reality of gender and relationship fluidity to add to the impact of the story. We are so very proud of the result, of both Ben and David Sapiro’s talent, and Erin Eggers’ direction.”
Again, I’m calling “bullshit” on this. The dynamics and relationships between a man and a woman – which is what the show is about, one way or another – are vastly different from those between two men or two women, and altering that relationship alters the writer’s intentions.
Dramatists Play Service, which represents Mamet and which gave Alchemist the rights to produce the play, didn’t see it that way. The firm sent the cease-and-desist letter Friday, the day that reviews of the show appeared online and revealed the company’s casting decision – a decision that the company went to unusual lengths to keep hidden before opening curtain.
And that, for me, is the final nail in the coffin. They knew they were doing something they felt they needed to hide from the licensors, the writer – and the public. I know if I were involved with a production that had the potential to radically alter the audience’s perceptions of a play they thought they knew, I’d be shouting it from the rooftops.
I’d go on, but once again have reached what I assume are the limits of your patience, so another theatre’s attempt to make the late Arthur Miller turn over in his grave will have to wait until our next thrilling chapter.
“You can’t kill me again, no matter how hard you try.”
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Everything Is Already Something Week 35: Caution, Contents May Explode
Stop reading about the film version of “Into The Woods” and read this instead- it’s Allison Page!
My big problem now isn’t inspiration, it’s dread of content. Let’s say you’ve got the ingredients for two pie recipes – one is for a Chocolate French Silk pie and one is for a Personal Fears And Worst Parts Of Yourself Plus Chocolate Shavings pie. They both contain some chocolate, but the first one sounds less painful to make, right? That’s what’s going on with me right now. I’m keenly aware of what I should be working on. I have 75% of a draft of a play that’s really important to me and is filled with lots of real shit. And it’s been 75% done for months. I haven’t touched it since February. I NEED a completed draft this month, and it currently has no ending. A play should probably have an ending, so they tell me. And then I have this other play. I have a fully completed draft, I’ve had a reading of it, and I don’t *need* to make the necessary revisions until fall. But I’d much rather work on that, than the more pressing script. Who wouldn’t choose a juvenile horror comedy with a mythical beast to work on over something that so closely relates to their own demons, and the demons of people who have been close to them?
Wait, it’s not going to write itself? BUT PEOPLE SAY THAT ALL THE TIME.
Overall I think it’s a cop-out to say that you can’t write anything unless you’re in the mood or feeling inspired. Maybe I say that so that I can convince myself not to wait for inspiration, knowing that I’m so lazy I might never get around to feeling inspired. (I enjoy playing tricks on myself to force myself to work. I do it all the time. Just setting bear traps around my apartment to create a sense of urgency. You know, regular stuff.) But dreading the content isn’t much different from “not feeling inspired” if the end result is the same – not getting shit done. I’ve been primarily writing comedy for the last several years, which is obviously fun. Even when it’s hard, it’s fun. You know what’s not always fun? Writing a character that you love who is completely sabotaging their own potential for happiness. UGHHHHH, RIGHT?!?
YOU CAN’T TELL BUT I’M HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE!
’m hoping this is one of those situations that I’ll later look back on and say “That was really hard but SO WORTH IT.” and not “That was just really hard. Pass the bourbon, stranger.” I feel bad even talking about it, somehow or other people write way more exhausting/personal/tragic/depressing/catastrophic stories than the one I’m working on. I recently saw a production of The Crucible (while in the middle of pondering this topic) and thought “Yowza. Imagine writing all that misery.”
Arthur Miller: Bucket Of Fun And Smiles.
Or Titus Andronicus…that couldn’t have been a good headspace for Shakespeare to live in. Ah, to be a fly on the wall of those therapy sessions. I guess that’s part of the toil of being a playwright – not always wanting to live in the world you’re building, and worrying that it’ll take you somewhere you’re afraid you’ll never be able to leave. This isn’t just a problem writers face, but something actors can get stuck in too, obviously. I’ve done some heavy actor-brooding in the past. Antigone wasn’t exactly a giggle-fest.
That probably sounded pretty grim. In actuality, I’m really excited about this play – it’s just not easy. There is plenty of humor in it, but I’ve got that part down. It’s the other icky-sticky-dark-murky stuff that needs my attention.
PS. If you see me looking forlorn, staring down at the sidewalk…buy me a cookie.
Allison Page is an actor/writer/director/whatever and you can follow her on Twitter @allisonlynnpage.
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Working Title: The Forging Power of Witch Trial
This week Will looks back and marvels at the The Crucible.
A curious thing happens when you see a new production of a show you once worked on. An uncanny fusing of auditory time travel and welcome familiarity stacks upon the material. In the most recent case, I took in The Custom Made Theatre’s production of The Crucible directed by Stuart Bousel. This Arthur Miller masterpiece happens to be the first play in which I had the pleasure to act. I played the small part of Frances Nurse. I had 18 lines. I know because I counted them. Boy, was I proud of those 18 lines. I was also proud to have found a home amongst the odd, hodge-podge, theatre kids in my high school. Anyone within the theatre community can tell you their origin play and when they felt the bite of the theatre bug. What is nice, all these years later, is when I see a production that reminds me what good theatre feels like and possibly why I got into this creative madhouse in the first place.
The San Francisco theatre scene is very proud of it’s new works. More new plays are premiered here than anywhere else in the country, or so I’ve heard. So why do The Crucible? Why now? We have a 1996 film version with Daniel Day-Lewis and Joan Allen. It’s hard to get better leads than those two. Often when discussing film and theatre, I can favor the best of the film offerings when placed against the average production here in the bay area. That may be an unfair fight, but we all have our biases. But this case is different. Why do The Crucible? Why now? Well, it’s never a bad time to put up a great play with outstanding actors and a clear vision of direction. More directly, there is a potency built within this play that unfolds more powerfully when performed in a close space. The 3/4 thrust staging of this current production refuses to allow the audience an emotional escape. We are locked in the closed courtrooms and cloying country houses as the world falls around these characters. In the best theatrical experiences, you, as an onlooking audience member, become a part of something. You are not separate. You are more than a mere watcher. You are entwined. Your experience wraps in the actions of the actors on stage and the fellow audience around. All become one, living the drama before us.
The cast is large and I’ll admit, in the past, I might have thought it possibly too large for the performance space. But this is not the case. Due to the precise direction, I never felt that the cast was overwhelming the space or the audience. It just fits. In the film, the realism afforded in the setting also allows the dark clothes and the dark hair and the plentiful drab town-people to blend together. It’s easy to mix up one Goody from another Goody or one old grey haired judge from another grey haired judge. There are many admirable things about Nicholas Hytner’s film but the realistic breadth of the town may be a detriment that distracts from the emotional core of the story. The play does not suffer from this problem.
One would think that the long scenes written into the structure of the play could create a pacing issue. With a less apt cast this might be true but the play clips by with speed and intensity. Film, in general, has the ability the solve pacing issues through editing tools or the ability to cut to new locations and new scenes without pause. However, this trick also can carry along an audience whether they are invested or not. In this case, The Crucible film races over increased stakes and plot developments as Abigail cries witch, more towns folk are hanged and our dear Goody Proctor is accused. The way Arthur Miller writes the lengthy scenes of his play, the revelations have time to breathe and then impact the audience fully. The film covers all the same notes yet undercuts the emotional impact with truncated script choices. Arthur Miller, who wrote both the original and the adapted 1996 screenplay, would probably dislike my saying so of his screenplay. But the play simply works in a way the film does not.
The film gives a fuller sense of the rampant chaos when Salem is turning with the witching upheaval yet it is from a more distant point of view. When John Proctor gets the news of towns disruptions from Mary Warren, it’s more personal news. As if a friend is dolling out town gossip to the audience personally. We overhear this news as if it were local gossip. The intimate space rounds out much atmospheric emotion.
The production aspects that excel throughout are the costumes, acting and sound design. While the film matches the quality acting and costumes, the sound doesn’t achieve the disconcerting heights of the production’s original music and sound design by Liz Ryder. The soundscape is both haunting and moving. It folds the audience in the maddening world of Miller’s Salem, echoing the longing desire and futile separation inherent in every character.
The silver screen can offer a personal journey that rings a unique bell in our being. I love the art of film and will always return there. But there is something individual about those journeys. Less communal. It’s personal. Great theatre is both personal and communal. Instead of “I see”, it’s “we experience”. We must not underestimate the power of sitting in a small space together screaming at witchcraft birds and the tragedy of prideful poppet pins. This production is a reminder of that power.
The Crucible runs the next few weeks at Custom Made Theatre Co. You can get more info and tickets at http://www.custommade.org.
Yamada, Jay. Proctor’s Final Embrace. 2014. Photograph. Www.custommade.org, San Francisco. Web. 27 May 2014.
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Theater Around The Bay: Playwright’s Note vs. Director’s Note
With RAT GIRL about to close on May 24th and THE CRUCIBLE about to open on May 20th, Stuart Bousel finds himself in the rare position of not only having two works playing simultaneously in San Francisco, but both being works based on true stories (that interestingly enough, also both took place in New England, and both focus heavily on teenage girls). Paradoxically, one is a new work being tested for the first time (RAT GIRL), and one is a great American classic that’s been done many times (THE CRUCIBLE), and while he penned the first one (adapted from the memoir by Kristin Hersh), he directed the second (which is written by Arthur Miller). The juxtaposition of these two works has certainly generated a great deal of introspection on his end, particularly in regards to how we tell a story, and why, how it is received and what expectations audiences and critics walk in the door with, what we bring to a production process depending on our role in that process, and what roles truth and reality play in making a work of art, whether we’re breaking new ground or re-visiting a well trod path. Though there is, no doubt, a whole other article coming discussing his experience of inhabiting two such different (and yet oddly similar) worlds at the same time, for the moment it seems like the best way to offer a window into his mind is via the notes he wrote to accompany these two unique shows.
Playwright’s Note On RAT GIRL
Kristin is a real person.
She’s a mother of four sons who divides her time between New England and New Orleans, and when she’s not being a mother, writing songs or touring the country with her indie rock royalty band The Throwing Muses, (or her more recently formed punk rock trio, 50 Foot Wave), she’s working on more books and co-running a non-profit to empower more aspiring musicians. The fact that she took the time to personally respond to my ridiculous request to turn her book into a play is a high-point of my life, let alone the part where she gave us the permission to create this show and put it on. But from what I can tell, that’s Kristin: generous, benevolent, all about people pursuing their passions and quick to say “hey, we’re all losers here.” By which I’ve come to think she means we’re all human, all struggling with something, and that’s what’s interesting about us, even if some of us happen to also be rock stars.
I originally conceived and pitched this show as a piece about the relationship between Kristin and movie star Betty Hutton, who had relocated to New England in her 60s to “dry out” and pursue a masters degree at Salve Regina University, where Kristin’s father was teaching and she was also a student. But like so many shows it evolved into something else, but with the added element of being based on historically true events and the lives of people who actually lived and not only that- lived in the public eye. One of my major challenges in the process was balancing the source material (the book) with all the outside historical information, trying to stay true to what happened and who these people were, while still trying to turn it into a dramatically viable play abut people who anybody could potentially relate to, while also trying to unpack the exquisite mystery that is Kristin’s music and her love/hate relationship to it. At some point I realized the second two values trumped the first, and the drafts got a lot better after that, if less reverent. Luckily, my two heroines are neither reverent, nor people with a conventional relationship to reality.
But they are all real people- down to the reporters and the students in Kristin’s art therapy class. Betty (about whom Kristin wrote the song “Elizabeth June”) died in 2007. Tea is Tanya Donelly, who would later leave the band to form The Breeders, then Belly, and then go solo, becoming an alt rock icon in her own right. Gary is Gary Smith, of Fort Apache Records, Ivo is Ivo Watts-Russell, who founded 4AD Records and has a Cocteau Twins song named after him, and Gil is Gil Norton, a now legendary record producer whose discography reads like a Who’s Who of the last thirty years of rock music. Leslie has retired from music and returned to California, but Dave is still Dave, touring with the Throwing Muses, sitting at the drums behind Kristin, not wearing his glasses.
Mark has also died since the events of RAT GIRL, but the details around his life are always fuzzy. Numerous lyrics in songs by both Kristin and Tanya seem to reference him, this gentle, kind boy who was living under a porch for a while, but unlike so many of the other people in RAT GIRL, he was never part of the music industry or larger art world, and so he has the rare luxury of being a private citizen who has remained, mostly, part of Kristin’s private life. Along with Betty, Kristin dedicated the book RAT GIRL to him.
As a new play is developed, many things come and go. What you’re seeing on stage is something between draft 4 and 5. My first draft was incredibly reverent of the material and four hours long. With each draft, material has been cut, while subtle things changed or were added, put into my own words, or morphed together from Kristin’s. In the case of the character of Jeff, who is a major figure in the first half of the book, at least three other people have been collapsed into him, and Kristin’s parents, so important in the memoir, are now just voices from the past. Still, it was the last cut I made, a week before previews, that I think stands out most in my thoughts on the process. It is the final line of the book and was to be the final line of the play: “I absolutely did not invent this.” In the book, it’s Kristin talking about her first born son. In the play, it was to be the summation of everything the audience had just seen. But with each draft it felt less and less necessary as the play truly became a play, something apart from the book, from the music, and from Kristin’s actual life, a story about a young woman who could really be anybody, any of us.
She just happens to be named Kristin.
Director’s Note For THE CRUCIBLE
Note: it’s probably helpful to know this production is staged on a floor painted with a map of the Salem area of Massachusetts in 1692, and that this was the foundation concept behind this particular production.
The decision to place this production of the Crucible on a map of Salem Town and the larger, more ambiguous region known as “Salem Village” came from a desire to communicate to our audience that what is often perceived as an event taking place in some quaint, cobblestoned seaport, actually took place over almost 100 square miles of farmland and hamlets that would later become what is present day Beverly, Andover, Marblehead, and Salem.
With roughly 2,000 residents in 1692, Salem Town was the second largest settlement in New England (after Boston), but the home of Reverand Parris, where the witch hysteria began, was located 7 miles away, at a crossroads where 10-15 buildings and homes had clustered together to form the center of an agricultural parrish over which 500 or so farmers and craftsmen were scattered, living the majority of their days in relative isolation save for their own families, servants, and hired farmhands. Their once a week journey to the parish center for Sunday prayer at the meeting house would have been the bulk of their social interaction with people outside of their households, and for many this would have been a trip of several hours, often on foot, through fields and pockets of forest in which Natives Americans and wolves prowled. In winter they could expect anywhere between three to nine feet of snow, and very little by way of highway maintenance. Households in the parish had to be largely self-sustaining and also defensible, especially in a time when marauding bands of French soldiers were attacking villages and farms along the Maine borders, and even one’s neighbors were more likely to be strangers than friends. News was communicated slowly, by foot or by horseback, medical aid was difficult to obtain in a timely fashion, and firewood was arguably more precious than gold since it would have to be dragged a great distance and obtained from the source rather than in a marketplace. Candles, the primary source of indoor light, were expensive and used sparingly, windows heavily curtained in an effort to insulate houses made of wood and stone.
The cliche of small towns where people lived their lives within five miles of the house they were born in is not only a truth about Salem Village, but intrinsic to understanding how something so incomprehensible as the witchcraft hysteria could have happened. Isolated from one another and attempting to eke out a living under harsh conditions, perched on the edge of a strange continent only barely explored, it’s not hard to see how an avid and culturally ingrained belief in demons and angels could morph into something diabolical when combined with the active imaginations of people living in places where the night-time darkness must have seemed impenetrable, the shadows full of dangers, the chill weather deadly, and help far away, if it existed at all.
That these people had come to New England in search of a new and better life, usually in the form of land ownership that was impossible in the Old Country, is further hinted at by the map, which was continuously re-drawn with each generation as farms failed or succeeded, families grew or died off, and disputed territory was correctly or incorrectly designated in wills or via private sales often occurring outside any kind of formal and enforceable legal process. It has been argued that a principal motivation behind the witch trials was one faction of families, lead by the wealthy Putnams, seeking to acquire the land of those they accused, but in reality the land of the accused rarely became available to private buyers, reverting instead to the state. Long standing disputes over land, and the resentments attached to those disputes, however, most certainly fanned the fires of personal grudges that combined with the miasma of paranoia and resulted in nearly 300 people being arrested on false charges and 25 people losing their lives- 19 by hanging, 1 by being pressed to death, and 5 by sickness while languishing in Salem’s prison.
Today Salem Village no longer exists, having been renamed Danvers in an early attempt to erase the dark past of the region. In a delicious stroke of irony, the Danvers Lunatic Asylum was later built on the land once owned by Judge Hathorne, whose great-great-grandson Nathaniel (who added a “w” to his surname so as to distance himself from his legacy) would pen “The House of Seven Gables”, which still stands in modern day Salem. The Asylum, however, burned down in 2007, and the land remains empty except for a cemetery which is consider haunted.
RAT GIRL has three more performances. Tickets and info at www.divafest.info. THE CRUCIBLE opens Tuesday, May 20th, tickets and info at www.custommade.org.
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Working Title: Goodbye Philip Seymour Hoffman
Will Leschber pens the blog’s first “in memoriam” with this week’s Working Title.
What is clear is that we, collectively, have lost something of great value. To the masses he was a high quality addition to franchise films (The Hunger Games, Mission Impossible III). To the frequent film fans he was someone with a ridiculous high bar for quality (The Master, Doubt, Synecdoche New York, Charlie Wilson’s War, Capote, Punch-Drunk Love, Almost Famous, Magnolia, the list is long…). To those who saw him live on stage, he provided unforgettable volatility and startling emotional immediacy (2000 revival of Sam Shepard’s True West, 2012 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman). To his friends and family, he was their beloved Phil. I’m sure he was also many more things to many more people. You know of whom I speak: Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He crossed from screen to stage and back again with ease. The caliber of his craft was rarely in question, however it was a quality of uncommon humanity that all of his characters inhabited that made his work hit even closer. This loss within the acting community will stay longer that most, I feel. There is something more personally affecting about Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The New York Times film critic, A.O. Scott, said it well when he said, “He may have specialized in unhappiness, but you were always glad to see him.”
As I look back on major periods within my creative development and personal history, PSH was always there in some capacity informing the fringes of my creative life. I caught the theatre bug in high school like most of my close friends.On multiple occasions I, and a friend or two, would ditch school to see Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. We must have done it three or four times. When I felt like taking a rebellious break from sixth period Government class, Hoffman’s endearing Phil Parma was there to reunite the estranged, misogynist men played by Jason Robards and Tom Cruise. My 17 year old self was entranced. PSH himself was quoted as saying, “I think Magnolia (1999) is one of the best films I’ve ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I’ll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I’ve ever been in and ever seen.” (IMDB) His phone call in the film attempting to find that long lost son taps the first crack in how that film breaks your heart.
In college, the first go round at least, I was pursuing a theatre degree in performance. One of the first scenes I worked on in Acting II was a piece from True West. My scene partner told me that these roles were played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly the year before . To further make me feel out of my depth, he then said, “Yeah, they would switch roles every other night.” Inspiring. To toggle between vastly different characters with ease struck me with awe. PSH’s whole career is characterized with vast divergence of created individuals. We all wanted to be that good.
A few years later when I had left said college unfinished, I moved back home to Phoenix. Life having taken some unfriendly turns, I was working my way through depression. I had thrown away my academic scholarship, I no longer knew my purpose and my sense of self identity was blurring. I wouldn’t say it out loud but I was scared. I just felt so lost. I knew it still loved movies. They were a constant. Why not go see the new independent PSH film, Love Liza. For the few who saw this, you’ll know its not light viewing. I was in a dark period and PSH’s character in this film likewise was so. A.O. Scott in his article “An Actor Whose Unhappiness Brought Joy” remarked, “Hoffman’s characters exist, more often than not, in a state of ethical and existential torment. They are stuck on the battleground where pride and conscience contend with base and ugly instincts.” For those in low places of self doubt and self loathing, often PSH provided humanity and catharsis in a way that allowed audiences to feel akin to a fellow lonely soul.
In 2012, when in a much healthier place, I took a trip to New York with my then girlfriend, now fiancée. As a college graduation present (yes, I took a long road to finish but eventually I got there), I was given two tickets to see the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman. Upon arrival at the theatre, we were told that the tickets were for handicapped patrons and if we did not have someone in our party who fit that description we would have to pay an up-charge. Thank you very much StubHub. We had come all the way to see PSH’s Willy Lowman and Andrew Garfield (of Spiderman fame) in a show that we loved directed by Mike Nichols! Of course we would fork over the extra money. Geez. In the end those tickets were by far the most expensive I’ve had (upward of $700 all total) but the show was invaluable. The production remains to this day as one of my favorite theatre experiences. The play which I had seen and read many times before, simply cut deeper. For that experience, I am grateful.
Though I did not know him personally, his accessibility on stage and on screen made me feel like I did. My connection to the work of Philip Seymour Hoffman, like many of my friends, and I would venture most people who saw his work, is personal. He let us in. He allowed us access to the terrible sadness and fleeting joys in ourselves. Again I think A.O. Scott said it wonderfully when he said, “He did not care if we liked any of these sad specimens. The point was to make us believe them and to recognize in them — in him — a truth about ourselves that we might otherwise have preferred to avoid. He had a rare ability to illuminate the varieties of human ugliness. No one ever did it so beautifully.”
You will be deeply missed. Goodbye.
Scott, A.O. “An Actor Whose Unhappiness Brought Joy.”New York Times. 03 Feb 2014: Web. 4 Feb. 2014.
Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, .Philip Seymour Hoffman. N.d. Photograph. New York Times, NY. Web. 4 Feb 2014.
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Czechs and Tech
Bennett Fisher talks about his upcoming Theater Pub show, “The Memorandum.” Be sure to join us on Tuesday, May 15th at 8 PM at the Cafe Royale for this one night only event!
I’m intrigued by difference in the sort of plays that become popular in each culture. In the states, we seem to have collectively come to the conclusion that the domestic, family drama is the quintessential form for the great American plays, but even if we can identify those recurring patterns between Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman, Curse of the Starving Class, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Glass Menagerie, it’s hard for us to pin down what makes them specifically American. Having spent a lot of time with Czech plays, I have begun to identify a kind of pattern there as well – plays that revolve around what happens when innovation backfires.
The most celebrated and widely referenced play from Czech theater history is Karel Capek’s Rossums Universal Robots, better known as R.U.R. Capek coined the term “robot” in R.U.R. to describe an android, servant class. Terminator, The Matrix, Blade Runner – pretty much every film where the machines decide to stop obeying humans – are all derivative from Capek’s play: R.U.R.’s plot revolves around the robots gaining a deeper consciousness, revolting against their human masters, and building a new society. There are far fewer explosions in R.U.R. compared to The Matrix, but the play is the first piece of literature to really probe the difference between man and machine and ask whether something artificial can possess human qualities. Moreover, it is a story of progress misguided. The designers build the robots with the purest intentions and, almost unintentionally, become slaveholders. Instead of empowering humanity, the robots rebel against their creators. Each new solution only seeks to exasperate the problem, and we leave the play deeply skeptical about our own capacity to predict what will lead to progress or disaster.
In the same way that Arthur Miller follows in the wake of Eugene O’Neill, picking up the mantle of the family drama and examining it with his own, distinct literary lens, so too does Havel follow Capek’s lead with his work. Like R.U.R., the conflict in The Memorandum is fueled by the character’s desire to create a new, better system. The more fervently the perceived solution is pursued, the more entrenched and unsolvable the problems become.
I like that the play feels so rooted in the Czech dramatic aesthetic, but, just like Miller and O’Neill, the aspects of the play that really resonate are not the things that tie it to an individual culture or specific time, but to all cultures and all times. In an era when text messaging and Facebook seem to contribute to our sense of isolation more than they make us feel connected, Havel’s scathing rejection of progress for progress’ sake seems especially relevant. All the monotony and inefficiency of working in an office are rendered spot on. There are the mounds of meaningless paperwork, meetings where nothing of importance is discussed, joyless workplace birthday parties, obsessive conversations over what and where to eat, and, of course, all the unbearable types of coworkers – the backstabbing subordinate who wants the promotion, the overly-chipper manager, the insufferable self-styled intellectual, the horndog, the assistant who can’t be bothered to assist, the weird quiet guy, and, of course, the one person who seems genuinely good and likable, but who is certainly doomed.
Fair warning, if you come Tuesday night, you might be inclined to call in sick on Wednesday. And perhaps not just because you had more beers than you might on a weeknight.
Don’t miss “The Memorandum” in a one night only staged reading on Tuesday, May 15th at 8 PM. The show is free, with a suggested donation at the door. Get there early because we tend to fill up!
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Mae Tuck, VP of Communications at the United Way and Harvard Business School Alum
To all those who think that in the business world, the next step after obtaining two prestigious degrees is to choose a career in the high-powered Fortune 500 nexus, meet Mae Tuck, the VP of Marketing and Communications at the United Way in Los Angeles. A graduate of Columbia and the Harvard Business School, she is very satisfyingly combining busy workdays with a sense of mission and purpose.
Born in Hong Kong, she was raised in Brooklyn by parents of the classic we-toil-so-our-children-can-do-better ilk: her mother literally worked “in a sweatshop” as a seamstress in Chinatown, and her father in a restaurant. Fast-forward many decades later, and Tuck finds herself working in (possibly) America’s most glamorous city, with both a husband and son whom she clearly adores.
Her path has been interesting: she started out as a chemical engineer designing cryogenic air separation facilities (!), then went for her graduate degree from Harvard. She subsequently switched to brand management, working for the nationally-known companies of Clorox and POM Wonderful, and then for the L.A. Times, helping them to re-brand their newspaper. Most importantly, perhaps, she had a socially conscious awakening about the plight of disadvantaged youth, with the latter leading to her current role at the United Way.
See below for more on this very American story of someone who loves “hip-hop yoga,” Starbucks for breakfast, wearing high heels for important meetings — and offers a very smart book recommendation for anyone in the business world.
Can you tell the readers a little bit about yourself?
I am a mom to an adorable four-year old son, wife to an education leader and advocate, and passionate marketer who finds inspiration in brands that improve lives. Every day, I work on being more present in all aspects of my life. People like to ask if I live to work or work to live, and my new mantra is “I live to live.” When I’m not juggling time between work and family, you can find me making hand-made pasta or working on my “hip-hop yoga” moves.
What does a day in your shoes typically look like?
Every day is different, which makes work interesting, but mostly it consists of lots and lots of meetings…and trying to stay on top of emails. I try to text and instant-message my team as often as possible, as email conversations can really get out of control.
What 2-3 things do you do to prepare yourself before work, and is there anything you try to accomplish everyday?
Every morning, I make a daily to-do list based on my weekly deliverables and the amount of non-meeting time I have. I try to be as realistic as possible when I set my daily goals, but that’s always a challenge because I want to accomplish so much.
One new trick I’ve learned is to attack the hardest tasks in the morning when my mind is better at critical thinking, during those high-energy morning hours. Then, by scheduling meetings in the afternoons, I am able to feed off the collective energy and stay on my toes during the “lower energy” hours. So far it’s been working great.
What is your breakfast of choice?
Starbucks reduced-fat turkey breakfast sandwich, plus a dark roast drip, always. Once a week, I treat myself to bacon.
What are your rituals or tips for staying energized and motivated?
I try to hold 1:1 meetings outside, walking around the building. Getting fresh air really encourages creativity.
What is your favorite part about your job?
Our mission work. United Way is a nonprofit focused on fighting the root causes of poverty to ensure everyone has a safe place to call home, access to good jobs and the chance to get a quality education.. When we are successful in terms of marketing or fundraising campaigns, we are able to raise more funds that go back to helping those in need. Many different kinds of nonprofits play critical roles in helping individuals, but United Way focuses on giving people the tools they need so they can help themselves. We talk about giving people a “hand-up” rather than a “hand-out.”
What and who inspires you at work?
Family, for different reasons. Growing up with immigrant parents, they had physically demanding jobs – as mentioned, my mom worked in a sweatshop, and my dad in a restaurant. From an early age, I knew they made many sacrifices so that their children could have opportunities they never had. They inspire me to be grateful that I am able to work with my brain rather than my brawn.
My husband Marshall Tuck also inspires me with his insatiable desire to help as many people as possible, and is the most optimistic and hard-working person I’ve ever known. He dreams big and works hard to reach his goals. Last year, he ran for a statewide political office and nearly unseated an incumbent. The word “impossible” isn’t in his dictionary.
Do you have a ‘Power Outfit’ that you wear for a big meeting or important work event?
Right now, I’m really into my black and white patterned jumpsuit, that I pair with a blazer and bright shoes. Always high heels for big meetings!
What is your favorite leisure activity after a stressful work week?
Shopping or wine, or both.
How many times have you changed your career direction?
Let’s see…there have been three phases of my career: as a chemical engineer, then in brand management, and now in non-profit marketing.
What was your very first job?
As a teenager, I helped my mom who worked as a seamstress in a sweatshop in Chinatown. I don’t think it was intentional of my parents, but working under such harsh conditions pretty much guaranteed that I would work hard to graduate from college and not have to follow in her footsteps. My first job after college was as a Chemical Engineer – I designed and launched cryogenic air separation facilities. (Yes, that’s quite a mouthful.)
What are the most important qualities of a good leader?
To “walk the walk” and be a real role model for the type of culture you are trying to build. Words are powerful — but consistent action is the true test of leadership.
What are the unforgettable traits of role models who have inspired you most?
Adaptability, tenacity, and never giving up on your dreams.
What are three questions you like to ask during an interview to know if the candidate (or job) is the right fit?
If the candidate is technically qualified, then I like to ask these questions to gauge fit with our work culture:
“Describe the type of work environment in which you thrive — and don’t thrive.”
“What is the biggest misperception your co-workers have about you?”
“What is your professional brand (i.e. how do you want your co-workers to perceive you)?”
What advice would you give to women starting their careers?
Walk in the door with no sense of entitlement.
Think about every project as an opportunity to learn and build your toolkit.
Prove yourself by being a team player and working hard; if you have a good boss, he or she will take notice and give you more opportunities to grow professionally.
What book would you recommend for women just starting their careers?
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels, by Michael Watkins.
What is your favorite quote you try and live by?
“Don’t live to work, or work to live — live to live.” Enjoy every moment that life has to offer.
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2013 action-adventure video game
Batman: Arkham Origins is an action-adventure video game made by Warner Bros. Games Montréal. It can be played on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii U, and Xbox 360. The game is based on the DC Comics superhero Batman and is the third in the Batman: Arkham series. It was released worldwide by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on October 25, 2013.note
Warner Bros. Games Montréal
Splash Damage
Eric Holmes
Ben Mattes[1]
Guillaume Voghel[2]
Dooma Wendschuh[3]
Corey May
Christopher Drake[4]
Batman: Arkham
WW: October 25, 2013note
Single-player, multiplayer
Unlike previous Arkham games, Arkham Origins is not made by Rocksteady Studios. It is also written by Dooma Wendschuh and Corey May. The main story takes place five years before the events of 2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum. The game shows a younger and not entirely formed Batman who has a bounty placed on his head by crime lord Black Mask. This attracts eight of world's greatest assassins to Gotham City on Christmas Eve. While having to deal with the dirty members of the police department, other villains also attract Batman's attention. Like previous Arkham games, Arkham Origins is played from the third-person view. The game greatly focuses on Batman's combat and stealth abilities, detective skills, and use of gadgets. Arkham Origins is the first game in the series to have a multiplayer mode.
The game mainly got positive reviews. But people criticised it for copying things from previous Arkham games without improving them, or pointlessly changing it. A tie-in game titled Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate was released along with Arkham Origins. Origins Blackgate is available for Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. A mobile version of Arkham Origins was created for iOS and Android systems. The mobile version was made available for download in October 2013.
^ In some European countries, the retail Microsoft Windows and Wii U versions will release on November 8, 2013.[5]
↑ Nowak, Peter (June 26, 2013). "Arkham Origins Hints at Upcoming Next-Gen Batman Game". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved September 24, 2013.
↑ Karmali, Luke (October 2, 2013). "Batman: Arkham Origins Dev Responds to Season Pass Backlash". IGN. J2 Global. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2013.
↑ Hanson, Ben (April 17, 2013). "The Storyline Of Batman: Arkham Origins". Game Informer. GameStop. Archived from the original on April 17, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
↑ "Batman Arkham Origins: Original Video Game Score". WaterTower Music. Archived from the original on October 27, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
↑ Phillips, Tom (October 18, 2013). "Batman: Arkham Origins' Wii U and physical PC versions will launch later in Europe". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on October 18, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
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About Smart Cities Mission
Mission Objectives
Cities Mission
About The Mission
Smart Cities Mission was launched by the Hon’ Prime Minister on 25 June, 2015. The main objective of the Mission is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure, clean and sustainable environment and give a decent quality of life to their citizens through the application of ‘smart solutions’. The Mission aims to drive economic growth and improve quality of life through comprehensive work on social, economic, physical and institutional pillars of the city. The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development by creation of replicable models which act as lighthouses to other aspiring cities. 100 cities have been selected to be developed as Smart Cities through a two-stage competition.
Launch of Smart Cities Mission by Hon’ble Prime Minister on 25 June, 2015
The Mission is operated as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme. Central Government will give financial support to the extent of Rs. 48,000 crores over 5 years i.e. on an average Rs.100 crore per city per year. An equal amount on a matching basis is to be provided by the State/ULB. Additional resources are to be raised through convergence, from ULBs’ own funds, grants under Finance Commission, innovative finance mechanisms such as Municipal Bonds, other government programs and borrowings. Emphasis has been given on the participation of private sector through Public Private Partnerships (PPP). Citizens’ aspirations were captured in the Smart City Proposals (SCPs) prepared by the selected cities. Aggregated at the national level, these proposals contained more than 5,000 projects worth over Rs. 2,00,000 crores, of which 45 percent is to be funded through Mission grants, 21 percent through convergence, 21 percent through PPP and rest from other sources.
There is no standard definition or template of a smart city. In the context of our country, the six fundamental principles on which the concept of Smart Cities is based are:
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The creation of Rotary in San Marcos TX
Rotary of San Marcos created
One Hundred Years Ago…November 1921
Initial discussions for the establishment of a Rotary Club in San Marcos were held at the Hofheinz Hotel during a luncheon of local businessmen on August 4, 1921. Guests at the luncheon were representatives from the Austin, Belton and Waco Chapters of Rotarians.
Fast forward three months to the evening of November 3 rd when thirty Austin Rotarians traveled to San Marcos for the installation of twenty-five charter members into the San Marcos Rotary Club. The dinner/meeting was held at the Post Office Café. W.H. Richardson, Jr. from the Austin Rotary delegation chaired the ceremonies as businessmen from San Marcos were inducted into the Rotary Association. After adopting the constitution and by-laws of the International
Association of Rotary Clubs, officers were elected – Dr. Lovard L. Lee, Jr. was elected president and John W. Gantt, was elected secretary-treasurer; Directors were Lovard L. Lee, Edward M. Cape, John W. Gantt, Tom C. Johnson, and Homer R. Blair. Weekly meetings were held each Wednesday at the Post Office Café.
On January, 11, 1922, members of the San Marcos Rotary Club gathered together with Rotarians from Austin and San Antonio for dinner at the Normal School dining room for formal presentation of the San Marcos club’s charter. (The official charter of the club from Rotary International is dated December 1, 1921.)
The photos depict the San Marcos Rotary Club celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Rotary International during a banquet on February 24, 1955. The banquet was held at the Commons
dining room on the SWTTC campus. Tom C. Johnson and Edward M. Cape - two charter members of the 1921 Rotary Club were honored. A dance program was presented by SWTTC students representing Spanish and Scottish dances symbolizing the international aspects of Rotary. The cake was a present from HEB and served at the conclusion of the dinner/program. Over one hundred members of the Rotary Club along with members of the Kiwanis, Lions and Exchange Clubs joined with the Rotary Club in celebration.
Research and story by Beth Grayson
Historic Photographs of San Marcos & Hays Co.
Sources: San Marcos Free Press Newspaper 8/12/1921, 11/11/1921, 12/9/1921, 1/13/1922; TXST and San Marcos Record Newspaper 3/4/1955.
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Michael Jordan “I Can No Longer Stay Silent”
Michael Jordan has finally broke his silence on the recent shooting of African Americans, targeting police officers and all racial issues.
His Airness wrote a post to The Undefeated stating, “I can no longer stay silent.”
“As a proud American, a father who lost his own dad in a senseless act of violence, and a black man, I have been deeply troubled by the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement and angered by the cowardly and hateful targeting and killing of police officers. I grieve with the families who have lost loved ones, as I know their pain all too well.
I was raised by parents who taught me to love and respect people regardless of their race or background, so I am saddened and frustrated by the divisive rhetoric and racial tensions that seem to be getting worse as of late. I know this country is better than that, and I can no longer stay silent. We need to find solutions that ensure people of color receive fair and equal treatment AND that police officers – who put their lives on the line every day to protect us all – are respected and supported.
Over the past three decades I have seen up close the dedication of the law enforcement officers who protect me and my family. I have the greatest respect for their sacrifice and service. I also recognize that for many people of color their experiences with law enforcement have been different than mine. I have decided to speak out in the hope that we can come together as Americans, and through peaceful dialogue and education, achieve constructive change.
To support that effort, I am making contributions of $1 million each to two organizations, the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s newly established Institute for Community-Police Relations and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.“
According to a spokesperson, Michael Jordan made the decision to go public with his statement about two weeks ago, but delayed it because he “did not want his announcement to take away the focus on the LGBT community.”
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Woman Putting on Pearls
THE BOOK: Woman Putting on Pearls
THE AUTHOR: Jeffrey Bean
THE EDITOR: The wonderful Susan Gardner, who edits with tremendous care and attention.
THE PUBLISHER: Red Mountain Press. From the press’s website: “Red Mountain Press publishes poetry and poets’ memoirs and literary fiction. Our books represent the point of view of the author and are beautiful objects of lasting value. The authors retain full rights to their work. We use the best papers and printers, with manufacturing processes that are low impact and resource conserving.”
SUMMARY: Susan Gardner and I collaborated to write this summary for the press release: “Winner of the 2016 Red Mountain Poetry Prize. Woman Putting on Pearls explores human connection and want as manifested through touch and the physically palpable gaze. With richly patterned sounds and rhythms, the collection forms a loose narrative in seven short sections acting much like musical movements. It traces the arc of life from childhood through death, integrating and savoring sensory experience in all its terrors, pleasures and aches. Interlaced throughout is a series of Voyeur poems focused on a man’s one-sided relationship with a woman he secretly watches. These are presented as interludes and constitute a separate but related loose narrative. Together, the two threads consider the tensions between the opposing needs for intimacy and independence, and the conflict between the desire to escape time and mortality and the desire to be wholly present in body, tasting all the delicious particulars of the world.”
THE BACK STORY: Woman Putting on Pearls is a full-length collection that brings together poems written over roughly eight years, some of which appeared in my two previously published chapbooks: Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window and The Voyeur’s Litany. The book consists of several short sequences of poems, including a sequence of ekphrastic poems based on paintings, a sequence of “Voyeur” poems in which a persona (an invented character) obsessively watches his neighbor, and a sequence of poems exploring parenthood that I call the “kid poems” in which a father addresses his daughter as “kid.” The various sequences took shape at different times—I was rarely working on “kid” poems and “voyeur” poems at the same time, for instance—and for a while it was hard to imagine how they might work together in a collection. Some of the “kid” poems are partly autobiographical and explore my own experiences as a parent (and my own childhood), and the “voyeur” poems are entirely fictionalized—in that sequence I was interested in speaking through a persona that felt unlike me, a character I found troubling and deviant, even creepy, and at the same time sympathetic. These impulses seemed at odds with each other, but once I started putting the sequences together, I was surprised to find they resonated with each other and explored the same themes: love (in many forms), the body, desire, mortality, and the need for human connection. I revised and revised again, I wrote some new poems for the book, I tried out different combinations of sequences, and after about a year of sending it out the manuscript was selected for the 2016 Red Mountain Poetry Prize by guest judge Sarah Sousa, a wonderful poet whose work I was happy to discover.
WHY THIS TITLE?: It’s a translation of the title of a Vermeer painting more commonly known as Woman with a Pearl Necklace or Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace. I found the translation Woman Putting on Pearls somewhere and liked the sound of that more active phrase better. It’s also the title of one of the poems in the collection, an ekphrastic poem based on the painting. I think that poem represents the book well thematically, and the title has obvious resonance with the “Voyeur” sequence since the speaker of those poems often observes the woman next door performing mundane domestic activities.
WHY WOULD SOMEONE WANT TO READ IT? Readers have enjoyed the book for its variety, especially the contrast in form, tone, and subject matter between the “voyeur” poems and the “kid” poems. On one level, the “voyeur” poems offer some of the pleasures of fiction—he’s a kind of anti-hero who is at times pathetic and at times sympathetic, and readers have told me they find him to be a complex and memorable character. Some find him scary, others find they relate to him, and some have said he’s a useful figure for thinking about our voyeuristic cultural moment. Many fellow parents have connected with the “kid” poems—and other poems in the book dealing with childhood and adolescence—for their honesty, humor, and exuberance. All of the poems in the book savor sensory experience, and readers who look for rich imagery and close attention to the details of the world will find much to enjoy. Finally, as a musician, I think a lot about sound and rhythm as I write, and I hope readers find the poems a pleasure to hear.
“In Woman Putting on Pearls, poet Jeffrey Bean speaks of the body, its loneliness, hungers, and joy. The body in Woman Putting on Pearls is essentially an isolated entity continuously seeking, not only attachment, but utter oneness with the other. But these poems, like want, are complex. The speaker in the “voyeur” series is sympathetic, pathetic, and frightening all at once. These seeming disparate views of body-love become points on a continuum of the human need to see, touch, love, and even worship another. Through insightful, sharp, and nuanced writing, Bean holds these contradictions in his steady gaze, no need for reconciliation.” –Sarah Sousa, 2016 Red Mountain Poetry Prize judge and author of See the Wolf, Split the Crow, The Diary of Esther Small, and Church of Needles
“In Jeffrey Bean’s Woman Putting on Pearls there’s the excruciating pleasure of wanting—the tastes, the smells, the gaze that longs for a body as slippery as a ruby. In each of these gorgeous poems I lose track of the boundaries of flesh and bread, dirt and the beloved’s hair, what the body holds and what holds a body. Through every season and each love, everything in the world wants in, wants a closeness, an intimacy that overtakes and consumes and transcends time, distance, and skin. And it makes you want that, too. So do. Open the curtains and open this book and let everything in.”—Traci Brimhall, author of Saudade, Our Lady of the Ruins, and Rookery
“These are love poems for fearful lovers, people who know that all romance is half panic. Or sometimes these are elegies sung by giddy mourners. Often they are both. The speakers in Jeffrey Bean’s Woman Putting on Pearls use rhythm and rhyme, repetition and reference to understand and order the world, while deeply “loving the ache of it” in all of its gorgeous and terrifying and impossible particulars.” –Patrick Ryan Frank, Author of The Opposite of People and How the Losers Love What’s Lost.
You can read an extensive review of Woman Putting on Pearls by Brian McKenna in the latest issue of Newfound: https://newfound.org/current-issue/reviews-woman-putting-on-pearls/
AUTHOR PROFILE:
Jeffrey Bean was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. He attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, graduating with a degree in Jazz Guitar Performance. He is the son of writers: his father, John, earned an MFA in poetry writing from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and his mother, Barbara, a published fiction writer, taught creative writing at Depauw University for twenty-five years. Although he grew up in a house full of poetry books, he didn’t start writing until high school when he read Yusef Komunyakaa’s Jazz Poetry Anthology, a book, that, to paraphrase Dickinson, made him feel physically as if the top of his head were taken off.
While at Oberlin, he continued to write, taking workshops with fiction writer Dan Chaon and poets Martha Collins and Pamela Alexander. After college, he and a friend backpacked across Europe for six weeks, visiting Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, and Portugal. When he returned home to Bloomington, woefully out of practice and certain that a career in music wasn’t for him, he took a job waiting tables at a Tibetan restaurant owned and managed by the Dalai Lama’s nephew. After that, he taught gym for a year in an elementary school in Portland, Oregon before enrolling in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Alabama.
Since then, his poems have appeared in such journals as FIELD, Subtropics, and Slate, and recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, The Antioch Review, The Missouri Review, and New Orleans Review among others. In addition to Woman Putting on Pearls, he is author of the poetry collection Diminished Fifth (WordTech) and the chapbooks Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (Southeast Missouri State University Press) and The Voyeur’s Litany (Anabiosis Press). His poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in the 2014 and 2016 New Poetry from the Midwest anthologies.
SAMPLE POEM:
Vermeer: Woman Putting on Pearls
Sometimes you get a minute or two,
nobody needs you for once, your body’s buoyed
by that grass-and-river feeling after lunch,
you draw back the shutters and the room
takes on the freshness of streams, hard buds
swelling up outside. It’s early spring,
you’ve got your best coat on, ermine trim,
and you lift up a necklace to the light,
to the space and quiet (it’s a gift, it asks
to be touched like this), and the places it touches
you, fingertips and throat, become
organs more sensitive than mirrors or eyes.
The V the ribbon makes that holds the pearls
draws the pleasures of the room in closer:
this chair, this table, this blue rug, the tug
of your earrings, your hair bow like a pink, chubby hand,
the downward slope of your forearms, eyelids,
mouth, light all over the wall like words
for what you wanted, words you can’t remember
now that you’re thinking what the light is really,
shattering fire, violent as birth
for billions of years out there in space, that long,
blue-cold cloth, an emptiness from which
sometimes come moons pink as hands in orbit
around a throat, a head, some pearls, warm for now.
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Louisa Catherine Adams: First Lady of the United States
Doug West
My writing interests are general, with expertise in science, history, biographies, and “how-to” topics. I have written over seventy books.
Louisa Catherine Adams
Louisa Johnson came from a family with deep roots in America. Her uncle Thomas Johnson was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, served as governor of Maryland, and as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Joshua Johnson, Louisa’s father, was a wealthy business owner who had moved his family from Maryland to England in 1771. Louisa Catherine was born in England to Joshua and Catherine Nuth, who was British, on February 12, 1775.
With the outbreak of fighting between the American colonies and Great Britain, the Johnson family moved to France while Louisa was still very young. It was there that young Louisa would spend her formative years. Once the Revolutionary War was over and the United States was an independent nation, President Washington appointed Joshua as a United States consul, and the Johnson family returned to England.
Louisa, the second child in a large family, enjoyed a life of privilege as a young lady. By the standards of the day, she was well educated. In France, she attended a Catholic school, an elite boarding school, and her father provided private tutors to help her with her studies. Rare for a young society lady of the day, she developed a love of literature and had an inquisitive and independent spirit. She also had a passion for fine art, music, and theater. Her love of music stayed with her for the rest of her life, as she played the harp and piano well into her later years.
John Quincy Adams at age 28.
Marriage to John Quincy Adams
Serving as the U.S. minister to the Netherlands, John Quincy Adams was already a world traveler and seasoned diplomat at age twenty-seven. As the son of the vice president of the United States and ambassador to the Netherlands, Adams was considered quite a catch for any young lady. In 1794, Adams was in London and delivered some documents to the residence of Thomas Johnson. Johnson invited him to stay for dinner and there Adams made the acquaintance of the nineteen-year-old Louisa.
Adams was no stranger to affairs of the heart, having fallen in love with a young girl named Mary Frazer just to have the romance ended by his overly protective mother, Abigail. John and Louisa began a formal courtship that was anything but a storybook romance. Even though John’s mother was an ocean away, she disapproved, believing a European wife would lead her son to ruin. Louisa wasn’t head over heels in love either; as she once put it, she had to be “coaxed into an affection.”
After a long, stormy courtship, Louisa and John were married on July 26, 1797, in London. John Adams senior and his wife Abigail were not able to attend the wedding as Mr. Adams was now the second president of the United States and up to his neck in political chaos back in America. Though Abigail didn’t approve of Louisa, fearing she was too frail and would drain her son’s bank account to support the extravagant lifestyle she had grown accustomed to, President Adams felt that his son had made a wise choice.
They say opposites attract and sometimes this is true; however, in the case of John Quincy and Louisa, these differences would cause conflict much of their lives. She was a shy and gentle woman while he was stubborn and aloof. Unlike his father, John Quincy found Louisa’s intelligence and outspoken broadminded attitudes disturbing; he preferred a more servile wife that tended to her domestic duties. And about the time of their marriage, Louisa’s father went bankrupt, which added more financial stress to the young couple. Financial difficulties would always be a source of problems for the couple. John Quincy remained in public life till his dying day (literally), and though he was of great service to his country, the pay was low and his assignments often required lavish entertaining that was seldom covered by his expense account.
Not long after their marriage, President Adams posted John Quincy as the U.S. minister to Prussia. It was there that the couple’s troubled attempts at raising a family began. Her first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, which would be an on-going problem. Louisa eventually gave birth to four children between 1801 and 1811. She found her roles as the wife of a diplomat and mother both mentally and physically exhausting. Her husband was of little help, as he was absorbed in his career and was away from the family for long periods.
With the end of President Adams’ only term as president, his political foe Thomas Jefferson became president. Jefferson recalled diplomat Adams back to America thus, in 1801, Louisa arrived in America for the first time.
Unlike his father, John Quincy found Louisa’s intelligence and outspoken broadminded attitudes disturbing; he preferred a more servile wife that tended to her domestic duties.
America at Last
John Quincy resumed his law practice, which he didn’t enjoy, and was soon elected to the Massachusetts State Senate. Seeking higher office, he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and lost, but was elected into the U.S. Senate in 1803. Louisa was with him part of the time while he served in Boston and then in Washington, D.C. She found it difficult to conform to the ways of Boston and rural Massachusetts but found Washington more to her liking.
When her father died, bankrupt, Louisa was very upset with his death. This was about the time of the birth of John Quincy II, and the baby helped distract her from the passing of her father. While in Washington, Louisa lived with her widowed mother and sister Nancy, which was a welcomed change from life in Massachusetts. John Quincy’s Senate career went poorly, however, and he left to teach at Harvard. Since Louisa was pregnant at the time, she stayed behind in Washington, where she suffered another miscarriage.
Minister to Russia
James Madison became president in 1809 and appointed John Quincy as minister to Russia. Without consulting her, he accepted the position in St. Petersburg, Russia. Also without talking to Louisa, he made provisions for their two oldest sons, George and John II, to remain behind in the United States with relatives.
Louisa was upset when she heard that she would be moving to Russia without her two sons. Being torn from her children was an “agony of agonies”; even worse, she felt she had sinned in acquiescing to her husband’s will and deserting her sons at a time they most needed their mother. The Adams family began the six-thousand-mile journey to their new home in Russia with their two-year-old son Charles, sister-in-law Catherine “Kitty” Johnson, and nephew and secretary William Steuben Smith in early August.
The family arrived in St. Petersburg after a difficult journey of over two months. She found the city cold, with little affordable housing and fresh water. “I do not like the place or the people,” she wrote her mother-in-law, Abigail. She begged to be sent home in 1810, but her husband refused due to the expense. Once settled in, Louisa began the task of being an ambassador’s wife. It was here that her refinement, polish, and fluency in French made her popular at the royal court.
The ruler of Russia, Czar Alexander, took a liking to Louisa and often requested her as a dancing partner at official gatherings. John’s wages were poor, which forced the family to live a rather meager lifestyle, perpetually short on money. Then a daughter was born in 1811 after two additional miscarriages. Adding more distress to John and Louisa’s already troubled marriage was the death of their daughter at less than a year of age.
While the Adamses were in Russia, the United States was at war with Great Britain in what became known as the War of 1812. John Quincy was called away from his post in Russia to Paris to negotiate the treaty with Great Britain. After being away for nearly a year, he sent word to Louisa to join him in Paris. He had a new assignment in London as minister to Great Britain and would not be returning to St. Petersburg.
Louisa's Long Journey to London Through War-Torn Europe
After wrapping up the family’s affairs in St. Petersburg, she began the long journey to be with her husband. Along with her eight-year-old son, she had the assistance of an elderly nurse and two servants she had just hired. If traveling in the dead of winter in an unheated carriage wasn’t bad enough, the long trek was made even more dangerous by the unfortunate timing of the escape of Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison in Elba. The two servants she had hired, fearing conscription, deserted her and she had to hire a fourteen-year-old Prussian boy to guide them.
With Napoleon free, Europe teetered on war. The travel was harrowing, with the constant threat of robbery, mobs of angry Napoleonic loyalists hostile to travelers in a Russian carriage, being stuck in mud and snow, and being lost on occasion. After forty long days, the party finally arrived in Paris on March 23, 1815.
Her husband’s new position in London was welcome news as she could return to her childhood home; there she felt comfortable in familiar surroundings. The trip did prove to John and her mother-in-law that Louisa was much stronger than expected, having successfully navigated the demanding ordeal of traveling across a hostile continent. After six long years apart, John and Louisa were reunited with their two sons in London. This became one of the happiest times of her life with her family all together and living in a place that felt like home.
Write without fear and put down on your paper what you think, without thinking of what you must say.
— Louisa Catherine Adams
The stay in England was cut short as John was called back to America to be the secretary of state under President James Monroe in 1817. John and Louisa both realized that the position of secretary of state was a steppingstone on the road to becoming president. Louisa would become her husband’s political advisor, helping attain the goal of becoming the president of the United States.
Adams's view of his wife was also changing; he was more willing to accept her for who she was. Louisa’s grace in social situations was a counterpoint to John’s rigidness and frequent rudeness to people. Though she was naturally shy, she was able to smooth out John’s rough edges and help him overcome his personal failings.
Louisa gained valuable experience as a White House hostess when she substituted in this role for President Madison’s wife, Elizabeth. Mrs. Monroe was often ill and was not able to fulfill her role as hostess.
In January 1824, the Adamses hosted one of the grandest balls in the history of Washington. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of General Andrew Jackson’s victory at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson was one of Adams’ contenders for the presidency. Nearly one thousand guests were invited, and the ball turned out to be an important occasion to reintroduce John and Louisa to the Washington social elite. In addition to advancing John’s political career, this and other social occasions would give Louisa valuable experience in hosting large parties and navigating the political waters of Washington.
1824 Ball for Andrew Jackson (center). John Quincy and Louisa are on the far right.
First Lady of the United States
The presidential election of 1824 was very close, with Adams and Jackson winning the top two positions in the number of electoral votes. Since neither candidate possessed enough votes to win the election outright, it was thrown to the House of Representatives to decide.
Through some dubious negotiations, which became known as the “corrupt bargain,” Adams emerged as the president and the third-place candidate, Henry Clay, became the secretary of state. The victory would turn out to be a hollow one, as the Jackson political machine went into motion quickly to cripple the presidency of John Quincy.
The pressures of the presidency on John had spilled over into their personal lives and the couple’s relationship began to decline. By 1826 the two were barely speaking to each other and taking separate vacations. John’s already obstinate personality had deteriorated as the constant haranguing from the press took its toll. She advised him to “put a little wool in your ears…and don’t read the papers.” John had many good ideas to move the country forward, such as road and canal projects, expanded federal agriculture and education opportunities, and many more. Unfortunately, his political opponents were very strong, and he was nearly a lame-duck president when he entered the office.
The time as first lady was a disagreeable time for Louisa. She had grown weary of the constant demands placed upon the president’s wife and came to hate the White House. “There is something in the great unsocial house,” she wrote, “which depresses my spirit beyond expression and makes it impossible for me to feel at home or to fancy that I have a home anywhere.” She retreated into her own personal world as much as she could, reading prolifically, writing plays and poetry, and working with her hobby of raising silkworms.
A tragedy struck the family toward the end of their time in the White House when their son George died under shadowy circumstances. Louisa placed part of the blame for their son’s death on John. His harsh treatment of the troubled young man may have been a contributing factor to his possible suicide.
Louisa Adams as First Lady.
Lasting one term as president, as his father had done, John Quincy and Louisa left Washington for retirement in Massachusetts. Retirement for John Quincy was short as he was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. During this time their relationship improved as the position of congressman didn’t come with the pressures that a president faced. Louisa called her husband “the president” while he called her “Mrs. Louisa C. Adams.”
The couple celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1847 at their home in Quincy, Massachusetts. John, at eighty, was still a congressman and collapsed on the floor of the House of Representatives, dying two days later with Louisa by his side.
Louisa would live on another four years, dying on May 15, 1852, at age seventy-five. To honor her passing, Congress adjourned for the day to show respect and attend her funeral—the first time this was done for a woman.
Adams home in Quincy, Massachusetts, known as "Peacefield"
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This content reflects the personal opinions of the author. It is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge and should not be substituted for impartial fact or advice in legal, political, or personal matters.
© 2019 Doug West
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GOVT COMMITTED TO STATE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM.
GOVT COMMITTED TO STATE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM
Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare used the occasion of the Second Appointed Day of Western Province to reaffirm government’s commitment to ensure that the much sought after state government system will be implemented.
The Prime Minister reminded the people of Western Province that self- autonomy was not new and that it was brought up during the time country gained independence in 1978.
“Self- Autonomy is a theme that the people of Western District as it was then known, which includes Western and Choiseul Islands are familiar with. We do not celebrate when our country attained political independence from Great Britain in July 1978 when the other islands did,” PM Sogavare stated.
“Why? Because leading to and right from the word go, we asked the right questions. Will the system of Government, we adopt at independence work for us? Will it fairly acknowledge the contribution of our different island groups which eventually became Provinces in the distribution of the national wealth of the new independent nation? Will it provide the incentive for people to work hard?” the Prime Minister continued.
PM Sogavare pointed out that these are the questions that have continued to haunt us as a country.
He added that the simple answer to these questions is that the system of government we have adopted at the independence cannot accommodate those questions.
The Prime Minister pointed out that he understands the feeling and argument of the people that the current provincial government system does not reward provincial productivity.
“Did the Provincial Government system as a form of government give us the autonomy that is conducive to hard work and entrepreneurship? Our people think otherwise and rightly so…because there is a perception that there is no guarantee under the centralized budgetary system to reward provincial productivity. I can also understand the frustrations of our people in that regard too,” Sogavare stated.
The Prime Minister also highlighted that the answer to peoples’ frustrations is the State Government System, further adding government will not consider any other forms of self-autonomy but it will stand on the recommendation by Eminent Persons Group for the Federal System.
PM Sogavare pointed out that the draft Federal Constitution takes more than 10 years and over $100 million of budgetary provisions to develop.
The Prime Minister made a strong assurance that government is committed to introducing the Federal System of Government as recommended by the Imminent Persons Group.
PM Sogavare also used the occasion to dispel the rumour that government is being influenced to brush aside the issue of State Government System.
“Contrary to any thinking that the Government may have succumbed to the dictates of some foreign influences to shelve the State Government system, I want to assure you…that the DCGA is fully committed to introducing the Federal System of Government recommended by the Imminent Persons Group,” the Prime Minister stressed.
Western Province’s Second Appointed Day celebration was delayed by a week, and the Prime Minister was invited as the chief guest.
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Publicerad den februari 6, 2020 av sipcatsdirector
Lectures on Turkish literature and beyond Uppsala University, 7 February 2020 The Turkic Languages group is pleased to invite you to the following public lectures on Turkish literature and beyond. The lectures will take place in Room 22-1009 (English Park) … Läs mer →
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Publicerad den april 3, 2019 av sipcatsdirector
The 7th Whabiz Merchant Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 4 April, 2019, at 7 p.m.
Nordic Centre in India (NCI), Director’s residence, B-2, GF, Nizamuddin East, Delhi 110 013 Convener: Professor Hoshang Merchant, in cooperation with NCI and INLANSO (Varanasi)
Grassroots Philology for a Top Diplomat: The Career of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring (1907-2002)
Professor Birgit Schlyter, Stockholm University
As a university student in the 1920s and 1930s Gunnar Jarring prepared himself for an academic career in philology. After training in Sanskrit and Slavic languages he transferred to Turkic languages for graduate studies. His linguistic skills made him attractive to the Swedish intelligence and security services, where it was soon discovered that this young man would as well make an excellent diplomat. He served as Swedish envoy in New Delhi, 1948-1951, before the first Swedish ambassador to the new Indian state was appointed. As full ambassador he played a prominent role in the United Nations for decades and became an international celebrity as mediator in some of the world’s most serious and difficult interstate conflicts, such as the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan in 1957 and the Middle East crisis after the Six-Day War in 1967.
All through his career as a top diplomat, Ambassador Jarring remained a prolific scholar and published numerous works in his field of speciality, Uyghur studies. Scientifically, he was a conservative philologist, faithful to what he had learnt and developed as a graduate student in the 1930s. On the other hand, in his attitude and approach to language and, more generally speaking, to research in the humanities, he was in many respects ahead of his time. The overwhelming partof Jarring’s philological research is devoted to oral narratives elicited by himself in Srinagar in the summer of 1935. Gunnar Jarring was a compiler in at least two senses of the word: Not only was he an industrious and scrupulous lexicographer, but he was also an ardent book collector. Thanks to this, Sweden now has one of the largest collections of Eastern Turki, i.e. early modern and modern, non-standardized Uyghur language material as well as a comprehensive collection of late 19th and early 20th-century publications from and about Inner and Central Asia. As to the latter collection, a digitization project has been started for a “Gunnar Jarring Digital Library”online, accessible through the internet link http://www.jarringlibrary.se
Despite his at times challenging and perhaps also exhausting diplomatic missions for the UN and the Swedish Foreign Ministry, Jarring never left his research material but went on extracting a corpus of lexemes from his narratives for an Eastern Turki – English Dialect Dictionary, which is not only a linguistic treasure for the study of Uyghur language development. To Gunnar Jarring, the study of language meant a study of people and culture.
From the SIPCATS Director’s Whabis Merchant Memorial Lecture
Publicerad den augusti 9, 2018 av sipcatsdirector
A long editing process is about to end.
To appear
An Eastern Turki–English Dialect Dictionary, 2nd edition
Compiled by Gunnar Jarring and edited by Birgit N. Schlyter
In 1964, at the height of his diplomatic career, the Swedish Ambassador Gunnar Jarring (1907-2002), who was as much known to Turkologists for his works in Uyghur Studies, published his by now classical Eastern Turki–English Dialect Dictionary. His corpus was almost exclusively elicited from his own recordings of oral Eastern Turki (i.e. non-standardized modern Uyghur) folk literature, published in his Materials to the Knowledge of Eastern Turki. Tales, Poetry, Proverbs, Riddles, Ethnological and Historical Texts from the Southern Parts of Eastern Turkestan with Translation and Notes, Parts I – IV, Lund 1946-1951.
In fact, Ambassador Jarring never left this project. For the rest of his life, he continued to work for a revised and substantially enlarged version of his dictionary drawing from not only his own published and unpublished materials but also an enormous number of, if not all, other sources that could possibly contain Eastern Turki words and phrases – besides treatises in Turkic philology, travel accounts and, not least, printed matters and notebooks from Swedish missionaries living and working in Eastern Turkestan from the last decade of the 1800s till 1938. Some of these sources have been digitized and are accessible online from the Gunnar Jarring Digital Library, www.jarringcollection.se.
Ambassador Jarring finished his compilation and had his handwritten manuscript typed before he died. He also took an active part in the preparations for the transfer of the files and printouts to my research team in Central Asian Studies at Stockholm University for the final editing and publishing of the manuscript. More than half of the new sources not present in the first 1964 edition of the dictionary were not fully specified in Jarring’s manuscript, at times just notified by an abridged title, an acronym or the like. For the editing of the manuscript, it was part of my job to identify and search for these sources, most of which have been found in The Gunnar Jarring Central Eurasia Collection at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul and in the Jarring Collection at Lund University.
The new edition of An Eastern Turki–English Dialect Dictionary is not only a linguistic treasure. It is also a treasure of cultural history providing us with information from an abundance of sources not always very easily accessible. For example, let us look up the word burka, for a female outfit heard of at the present day first in connection with women in Afghanistan and eventually also in diverse Muslim circles elsewhere. Did the burka ever appear among the Uyghurs and, if so, when and under what circumstances did it appear? In his manuscript for the new extended edition of the Eastern Turki dictionary, Jarring quotes an article published in 1871 in the British Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 41 (pp. 132-193), “Report of ‘The Mirzas’ Exploration from Caubul to Kashgar” by Major T.G. Montgomerie:
burkha …, which covers them (the women) from head to foot, a piece of muslin, with eyeholes, being used as a cover for the face. This is a new custom in Kashgar, introduced by the order of Atalik, which the women particularly dislike
The author presents a report of a journey from Kabul to Kashgar. The traveler was not Montgomerie himself but a Turkic-Persian immigrant to India. The “Mirza”, as this local silversmith was called, had been employed previously by the British and trained as an “explorer”. By the end of 1867 he was sent out on this new mission to Kashgar. The “atalik” mentioned in this quotation was Yaqub Beg – the ruler of Eastern Turkestan from 1866 to 1877. Yaqub Beg was a strict and demanding leader, who put Islamic law into force and who did not allow women to be unveiled outdoors.
Before we arrive at burka in this dictionary, we find the word burgut, ‘the golden eagle’ (Aquila chryseatus) with reference to a frequently quoted source, A Sketch of the Turki Language as spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Kashghar and Yarkand), Part 2, The Vocabulary, published in 1880 by Robert Barkley Shaw, presented as “Political Agent, late on special duty at Kashghar, Gold Medallist, Royal Geographical Society”. The political agent Shaw apparently took a special interest in birds and plants, listing them in a special section of his vocabulary.
Further down in the text belonging to the entry of burgut, we find the same Shaw, however, this time written out as Shaw, since the book referred to in this case is not the aforementioned vocabulary of Turki but Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand, and Kashghar (Formerly Chinese Tartary) and Return Journey over the Karakoram Pass (1871), where one finds the following passage about a burgut or “birkoot”, as it is spelled there (p. 157f.):
At one of these places I was shown a newly-caught black eagle of the sort called ‘Birkoot,’ which are trained to catch antelope and deer as falcons do birds. The unfortunate creature was hooded, and wrapped up, wings, talons and all, in a sheep-skin and this bundle was suspended (head downwards) from the man’s saddle during the march. They consider this treatment has a tendency to tame the bird!
The passage ends with a note about Marco Polo (13th c.) having observed similar eagles at the court of the Chinese Emperor.
Still today, the “burgut” is used for hunting in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia:
An eagle trained for hunting in present-day Kyrgyzstan. The photo is from an article by Serkan Ocak in the Turkish daily Hürriyet, 7 April, 2018, “Tanrı Dağı’nın son efendileri… Tarihimizin başladığı yer” [The last masters of God’s Mountain … The place where our history begins].
In contemporary Ukrainian (via Russian), Turkic bürküt ~ burgut ~ birgut, etc. has become “berkut”, which appeared in the international news media a few years ago as the name of a special police force in action and finally dissolved during the 2014 crises between Russia and Ukraine.
You will find more about Gunnar Jarring’s lifelong study of Uyghur language and culture in the following two publications of mine:
Schlyter, Birgit N., ”From the Private Library of Gunnar Jarring and His New Eastern Turki Dictionary”, in Bellér-Hann, Ildiko, Birgit N. Schlyter, and Jun Sugawara (eds), Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring, Leiden/Boston 2017, pp. 13-33.
Schlyter, Birgit, Utsiktsplats Istanbul: Berättelser från turkfolkens värld [Viewpoint Istanbul: Accounts from the Turkic world], Stockholm 2015, pp. 183-198 and 300-313.
Publicerad den december 22, 2017 av sipcatsdirector
The volume In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change?, with contributors from a multidisciplinary array of anthropologists, political scientists and historians, was launched at a seminar on 8 December, 2017, at the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University. The book was introduced by the former director of the Swedish Research Institute at Istanbul, Professor Birgit Schlyter, under whose auspices a workshop had been organized on this topic in May, 2015.
In the midst of a cadre of academics, activists and students, Dipak Malik, professor emeritus of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India and currently affiliated with the Stockholm-Istanbul Program for Central Asian and Turkic Studies, made the initial comments on the volume. He discerned four perspectives that the articles deal with: (1) Gezi and its historical trappings, (2) the city as a site of political and civic manifestation, (3) the overbearing state and its interventions, and (4) the role of social media and cyber connectivity. The first portion discusses the historical antecedents – Gezi as a product of basic contradictions between environmentalists, modernists and minorities versus state intervention. It dwells on the lingering Kurdish question, white versus black Turk polarization, the moment as a goal-oriented activity or transformative agency of consciousness. The editors Oscar Hemer and Hans-Åke Persson as well as Asu Aksoy and Ayhan Kaya contribute to the discourse.
The city as a site of political and civic manifestation along with the right to city space is dealt with by Spyros Sofos and a few others discussing issues such as encroachment by the private sector permitted under the neo-liberal economic initiatives of the municipal park and other public spaces and commons, environmental concerns, demolition of settlements of minority and queer communities, and direct intervention of the state without wide public consultations. The state comes under heavy scrutiny of almost all the papers except for two contributions (Hikmet Kırık and Anita Sengupta), where the authors instead explain the evolution of the AKP concurring that the new polity should be seen differently than the cacophony of voices in Gezi.
The instrumentality of the movement was a novelty in the form of social media-led connectivity. Surprisingly, it was spontaneous, leaderless and egalitarian. Gezi was a movement by tweets, whereas televised versions and the print media had a subdued role.
In addition to the book launch, Professor Asım Karaömerlioğlu, Director of the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, gave a talk calling Gezi a new moment of the millennial generation of Turkey with echos on the global scale. He argued that Gezi had been essentially a feminist upsurge comparing it to the 1968 student revolts in Europe and USA, which had been patriarchal in nature.
The seminar concluded in a lively discussion and insightful comments from the audience.
Miriya Malik
Dr Miriya Malik, Academic Director of Centre for the Study of Indian Languages and Society (INLANSO), Varanasi; Part-time fixed term lecturer of Hindi at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Current project at SIPCATS/Istanbul: Early Turkic influences on South Asian languages and calligraphy
Dipak Malik
Dr Dipak Malik, Professor emeritus of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, as well as Director emeritus of Gandhian Institute of Studies, Varanasi; currently associated with Centre for the Study of Indian Languages and Society (INLANSO), Varanasi.
Current project at SIPCATS/Istanbul: Secularism and religion in nation-building in the 20th and 21st centuries in Turkey and India: Atatürk/Nehru – Erdoğan/Modi
Public Space Mobilization and its Consequencies from the point of view of the Gezi events
Publicerad den december 4, 2017 av sipcatsdirector
Welcome to a joint seminar organized by SIPCATS/SRII and the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University.
Public Space Mobilization and its Consequences
Book Launch and Seminar
The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University
Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Friday, 8 December, 2017
Boğaziçi University, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History
(South Campus, next to Aşiyan Müzesi)
Presentation of the book
In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change?
Birgit Schlyter, Professor, Stockholm, University
Dipak Malik, Professor, Centre for the Study of Indian Languages and Society
The Peculiarities of New Social Movements in the Age of “Internet Revolution”:
Theses from the Turkish Experiment
Asım Karaömerlioğlu, Professor, Director of the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History
RSVP: Kadriye.tamtekin@boun.edu.tr
Registration is mandatory for persons who are not students or faculty members at
Boğaziçi University
New contributions to Silk Road History from a Japanese perspective
Welcome to a SIPCATS book launch with the editor, Professor Selçuk Esenbel, Boğaziçi University.
Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia edited by Professor Selçuk Esenbel, Boğaziçi University, Brill
This book provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan’s current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed the Silk Road, involving Japan in the Great Game and exploring ancient civilizations. The book exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianism with Pan-Islamism, Turkic nationalism and Mongolian independence as a global history of imperialism. Japanese connections to Ottoman Turkey, India, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, and China at the same time reveal a discrete global narrative of cosmopolitanism and transnationality.
Introductions by
Johan Mårtelius, Professor, Director of SRII
Birgit Schlyter, Professor, Stockholm University
Selçuk Esenbel, Professor, Boğaziçi University
Tuesday, 5 December, 2017, 17:30
Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Istiklal caddesi 247, Tünel – Beyoğlu
RSVP: event@sri.org.tr (Registration is mandatory)
Studies on the Gezi Events: Political Rhetoric, Communication Strategies, and Mass Mobilization
Publicerad den november 17, 2017 av sipcatsdirector
Politics is founded on language as a tool of narration, persuasion, and mobilization. In the present-day world, new techniques enable great differentiation of communication strategies and channels of mediation, one effect of which is greater rapidity and autonomy in the distribution of messages making it more difficult for authorities to control and monopolize the flow of information. Mass mobilization has become easier with the introduction of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media.
Given this new order of things, there are a number of questions to be considered, such as: How is this rapid flow of information received and assessed by the individual? How is journalism affected by the development of new communication strategies? What are the merits of this new order besides its capacity of mass mobilization? What is the depth and rhetoric force of rapidly communicated messages?
In May 2015, a workshop focusing on these questions was organized by the Stockholm-Istanbul Program for Central Asian and Turkic Studies, SIPCATS, in cooperation with Nordic partner institutions: Ørecomm – Centre for Communication and Glocal Change, Roskilde University, and Malmö University.
More specifically, our aim was to analyze the 2013 Gezi events in Turkey from the point of view of communication and media’s part in social mobilization. The papers presented at the workshop were later updated and edited for an anthology titled “In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change”, now published by Palgrave.
THE ANNUAL GUNNAR JARRING LECTURE AT SRII, SWEDISH RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN ISTANBUL
Publicerad den oktober 23, 2017 av sipcatsdirector
The Swedish annual Gunnar Jarring Lecture was inaugurated in 1997 on the occasion of Ambassador Jarring’s 90th anniversary in honor of his contributions to Turkology and the establishment of a Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). For the first 15 years, Stockholm was the site of this recurring event. In 2012, Jarring’s importance for the SRII research environment was accentuated, as a huge book collection originating from the Ambassador’s private library – at present partly accessible worldwide through The Digital Gunnar Jarring Library (www.jarringcollection.se) – was donated to the Institute by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. As a natural consequence of this development it was decided at an SRII board meeting in 2013 that henceforth the annual Jarring Lectures were to alternate between Sweden and Istanbul.
The very first Jarring Lecture at SRII/Istanbul was delivered on 14 October, 2014, by Dr Susan Whitfield, the founder and the then head of the International Dunhuang Project (IDP), an impressive enterprise for the digitization of finds from early 20th-century archaeological explorations in Chinese Central Asia. In her speech, Dr Whitfield showed how international collaboration under the auspices of the IDP (http://idp.bl.uk) has enabled dispersed collections to be reunited online and placed within their original archaeological context.
This year, on 12 October – late Gunnar Jarring’s 110th birthday – scholars and students at SRII/Istanbul had the privilege to listen to the 2017 Gunnar Jarring Lecture delivered by Professor Mehmet Ölmez, Yıldız University, Istanbul. The Professor gave an account of his most recent excursion, just a couple of months ago, to Old Turkic and Uyghur inscriptions in Mongolia from the 7th – 9th centuries. Together with his research companion and a local driver he had travelled about 2000 kilometers across the steppe landscape of central and southeastern Mongolia searching for less accessible and thus less known monuments. Two of these were Küli Čor and Moyun Čor to the south of Ulaanbaatar, in the basin of the Orkhon and Tuul rivers. Sharing with us some of the photos taken during their journey, Professor Ölmez made us realize the significance of external data, among them the nature and history of the site, for the identification and interpretation of these inscriptions.
Küli Čor (Ikh-Khüshöt; first quarter of the 8th cent.) Photo: Mehmet Ölmez.
Moyun Čor (Šine-Usu; mid-9th cent.) Photo: Mehmet Ölmez.
The 2017 Gunnar Jarring Lecture
Publicerad den september 28, 2017 av sipcatsdirector
This year’s Gunnar Jarring Lecture, arranged by the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, will be held on 12 October, at 7 p.m. Welcome all to an exciting account of an expedition to the oldest inscriptions in a Turkic language known to mankind.
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Types of Limestone: Everything You Need to Know
Are you looking to install limestone tile on floors in your kitchen or bathroom? Do you know that there are several different types of limestone and that some types are more hardwearing than others? In this article, you’ll find essential information to get a better idea of what limestone is and its types. This info can be useful when choosing limestone slabs and tiles for your home renovation.
Limestone Rock Type: What Is Limestone?
Limestone is a sedimentary rock. It is mostly made of calcite, calcium carbonate, magnesium dolomite, and the shells and exoskeletons of marine life organisms, such as corals and mollusks, and other fossilized debris. Usually, it forms in clear, calm, warm, and shallow marine waters.
The word “sedimentary” means that the particles, which make up limestone, originated from other places but were transported and deposited mainly by water and by the wind. Some limestones are chemical sedimentary rocks. They are less abundant and form by direct precipitation of calcium carbonate from marine or freshwater.
It takes millions of years for limestone to form from sand, shell, and mud deposits left by lakes and oceans. Due to the presence of marine organisms and other fossil inclusions visible on close examination of the stone surface, limestone looks very attractive when it is polished or honed. There are numerous limestone rock types that differ in shades, colors, and forms because of the different conditions that produce the rock. Here are some examples.
Chalk limestone forms from calcareous shell remains of microscopic marine organisms such as foraminifera and small marine algae. It’s usually white or light gray and has a very fine texture, so it’s easily crushed or crumbled.
Animal shell limestone is made from animal shells of an ancient form of marine life called sea lilies because they resemble flowers.
Coral reef limestone is made from skeletons from coral animals that have no backbones. Coral limestone is generally free from mechanical impurities.
Travertine variety of limestone is usually light in color and can be extremely porous or cellular. It forms along streams, near waterfalls, and around hot or cold springs.
Black limestone rock features this color because it has the organic materials fused within it.
Limestone texture may vary as well. You may find a coarse crystalline structure and structures with multiple small and fine grains. It’s easy to see large crystals embedded in the limestone, but you’ll need a magnifying glass or a microscope to spot crystals in small-grained pieces of limestone.
Types of Limestone: Classification by Color
Limestone also includes little amounts of quartz, pyrite, feldspar, siderite, and a few other minerals. And because of the presence of a variety of minerals, it comes in numerous colors. The colors range from grey to buff, light beige to dark browns, reds, greens, greys, blues, blacks, yellow to pink, or orange pastel shades.
Jura Grey Limestone
Jura Beige Limestone
Jerusalem Gold Limestone
Black Stallion Limestone
Pure limestone is almost white. It is highly valued for its luminosity and the homogeneity of its light tones. Light beige and cream shades are also common. For example, fine-grained Jura Beige Limestone is highly prized for its rich beige color palette with lots of tiny fossil fragments. It’s remarkably durable and is suitable for both indoor and outdoor applications. Jerusalem Gold Limestone is an elegant choice because it features warm and inviting golden honey tones and a natural stone mottled pattern. It works well with whites, creams, and greys.
The darker stones result from grains of clay or sand grains, irons, and organic remains. Iron oxide impurities in limestone cause brown and yellow shading, and organic remains give dark-grey to black colors. Gray limestone features a wide range of neutral colors and spectacular fossil patterns and offers a classic appeal. For example, Jura Grey Limestone is a sophisticated and elegant option that is renowned for its understated beauty.
When choosing limestone, color is the key consideration from an aesthetic and a maintenance point of view, no matter the application. As a general rule of thumb, paler limestone tends to be less hardwearing and stain-resistant than darker stones. So if you choose limestone flooring for a high-traffic area, for example, a hallway, it makes sense to consider darker shades if you want to keep maintenance to a minimum. Darker colors will disguise boot marks and paw prints.
Limestone is a popular building material that is used in different parts of residential and commercial properties. It is available in a variety of colors and shades. Light colors and neutral shades, such as Ivory, light beige, cream, and light gray, can easily blend with the exterior and interior decors. You can use them as flooring in kitchens and bathrooms, and for outdoor landscaping. Still, there are limestone tiles and pavers of darker shades, and you can use them for your home improvement.
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Coming of age through the lens of Wingla Wong
by Kaitlin Chan
Wingla’s images capture the paradox of people at the beginning of their lives confronting the possible end.
In Fruit Chan’s seminal 1997 film Made in Hong Kong 香港製造, three teenage friends frolic in a hilltop cemetery. Under the gaze of long-deceased elders, they shout into the void, weaving between endless rows of marble headstones. Their voices echo in the eerie silence of a place where the dead outnumber the living, the frantic movements of their bodies exaggerated amidst the graves. What we know is that one of the characters is dying faster than the others. Yet, this moment of reveling in the space of death is nothing but levity.
This scene is what first comes to mind when I encounter Wingla Wong’s photographs of young women in cemeteries. They all stare directly at the viewer, posing with confidence and power, as if to remind us that the young are not impervious to death. If anything, to be young in this day and age is to be acutely aware of the precariousness of living.
Courtesy of Wingla Wong.
Wingla is twenty-one and she’s been shooting portraits for almost a decade. Her work is characterised by much more than her youth: raw yet considered eroticism, a fascination with bodies and how they bend and break, and most of all, a sense of filmic narrative, where each photograph hints at a lifetime of longing.
Be that as it may, her youth is an inextricable part of her artistic strength. Photography as a medium actively produces the cultural currency of youth, in all of its naked glory. Most photos we see of young people utilise nostalgia as a vehicle to sell us things we don’t actually want. Wingla’s photos of schoolgirls are exceptional in that she depicts pubescent girls through the lens of her shared experiences with them. Experiences of being a young woman in this world that, to paraphrase Jenny Zhang, reviles and fetishises the nubile female form.
As a fellow young woman herself, Wingla’s images ache with empathy. She makes pictures that deal in an uncanny sense of the “now”: this is not youth as an ideal or as a fetish. Rather than depicting young people from a vantage point, Wingla photographs as part of her own coming of age. These are people, mainly women, as they exist in real time, with all that they’ve lived through and all that is yet to come, condensed into single frames.
It all began with a crush. Wingla was thirteen when she became infatuated with a boy who loved photography. After convincing her mother that she needed money for textbooks, she bought her first camera. By the age of fifteen, she was organising shoots of her friends. She shot on film because, she says, “film cameras were the cheapest. It wasn’t like I had such an inclination towards film, so much as having access.”
At seventeen, she created her first photograph of a nude model. The nude female body remains her most enduring motif to this day. Nevertheless, she adamantly refuses to categorise her work as “feminist” or gender-oriented. “It’s just a decision,” she says softly. “I like photographing women in the same way I like the colour pink,” she adds.
She insists that nudity is “not really a big deal to [her].” The word that comes up most often in our conversation is 靚, which loosely translates to “pretty.” “If something is pretty in person, it is pretty when you photograph it too,” she explains. “If someone’s body is pretty, I’ll photograph their body. I don’t really get it when people are shy or ashamed of their body parts.”
Her candid demeanour is mirrored in the confrontational women of her photographs. When she’s scouting for models, she admits that her notion of beauty is informed by her desire to photograph herself. Wingla boldly proclaims, “I like the way I look. I like my own body.”
It occurs to me that I have never heard a young woman say these words out loud before. Her strong sense of self is manifested through insistently photographing the world through her own eyes, and not apologising for the kinds of subjects she returns to.
Indeed, most of her models are waifish and skinny. She mentions how her work is often critiqued for its centering of conventionally attractive bodies. In response to this criticism, she states that “chubbier and curvier bodies are beautiful too, but [skinny] is just my preference.” I am ambivalent about this, being a staunch supporter of the need to depict bodies of all sizes. When I ask further, it becomes clear that Wingla ultimately shoots for herself. “Each photo becomes a promise to myself, and I start to forget about what people think of my work, and place less emphasis on their opinions,” she muses. “The most important thing is [that] it’s me wielding the camera, right?”
She reminisces on the youthful naivety of her earlier work, as reflected in the surreal colours she used. These days, she is drawn to the honesty of “real colours,” she says. However, she doesn’t disregard the photos she took as a teenager, gesturing towards the process of growth in the life of an artist. “It’s not a matter of good and bad so much as what feels right to me,” she notes.
Wingla is extra sensitive to her younger self, as exemplified in the tenderness that underlies all of her work. In one image, a woman with long hair wearing a white floral dress is perched on a headstone. Viewed from below, she directs her gaze to the camera, her lips parted. Her rosy skin sharply contrasts with the cool stone marker of death she sits on. Like the screams Fruit Chan’s protagonists release into the cemetery, Wingla’s images capture the paradox of people at the beginning of their lives confronting the possible end.
She is determined to forge her own path amidst an increasingly homogenised visual landscape. “Amongst a whole world of rubbish, I want to stand out, to help people open their eyes. I want them to see what I see, and to see how my work is different from other people’s. I want them to be amazed and feel moved.”
Originally published in the Still / Loud magazine in February 2019. Republished online in March 2020. Kylie Lee contributed reporting. Wilfred Chan contributed editing.
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Where was Carnegie buried?
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States
Why was Carnegie a bad guy?
“He used business practices of questionable legality and morality to build up his steel business and become obscenely rich. He regularly cut wages,and the working conditions of his employees were very poor – all so he could increase his already VERY large profits.
How did Andrew Carnegie help the poor?
That’s exactly what Andrew Carnegie did. Carnegie had made some charitable donations before 1901, but after that time, giving his money away became his new occupation. In 1902 he founded the Carnegie Institution to fund scientific research and established a pension fund for teachers with a $10 million donation.
Who is the biggest steel company in the world?
Was Carnegie a hero or villain?
Andrew Carnegie, although not a heroic figure, is a legend to the business world due to his innovative pioneering, business techniques, and leadership expertise. Furthermore, Andrew Carnegie was gifted with unique ideas.
Why is US Steel stock falling?
US Steel Corp stock (NYSE: X) dropped 15% over the last 5 trading days (1 week). This has mainly been due to the volatility just before the company is due to report its Q4 and full year 2020 results on 28th January 2021.
Did Carnegie treat his workers good?
Andrew Carnegie treated his workers terribly. His employees worked in sweatshops, which are businesses where the workers work long hours with low pay in horrible working conditions. Carnegie did not pay his workers enough and when some of his workers decided to go on strike, he had them shot.
How much did Carnegie pay his workers?
Fitch called it “old age at forty.” For his trouble, the average worker in 1890 received about 10 dollars a week, just above the poverty line of 500 dollars a year. It took the wages of nearly 4,000 steelworkers to match the earnings of Andrew Carnegie.
Who has the best steel in the world?
Top 10 largest Steel Producing Countries in the World
China. China surpassed all goals and reached a staggering 808.4 million metric tons of crude steel in 2016.
The United States of America.
South Korea.
Did Carnegie exploit workers?
Many accounts of Andrew Carnegie state that he exploited his workers, subjecting them to long hours, a dangerous workplace, and low pay. Many workers in his steel mills worked for 12 hours per day, seven days a week, and were cast aside when they were no longer physically able to meet the demands of the workplace.
What is the highest quality steel?
Type 440—a higher grade of cutlery steel, with more carbon, allowing for much better edge retention when properly heat-treated. It can be hardened to approximately Rockwell 58 hardness, making it one of the hardest stainless steels.
How much money did Andrew Carnegie donate in today’s money?
Andrew Carnegie sold his steel company, Carnegie Steel, to J.P. Morgan for $480 million in 1901. According to the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie’s personal peak wealth was about $380 million, or around $309 billion by today’s standard.
How did Andrew Carnegie become so successful?
Steel Tycoon While working for the railroad, Carnegie began making investments. He made many wise choices and found that his investments, especially those in oil, brought in substantial returns. His business, which became known as the Carnegie Steel Company, revolutionized steel production in the United States.
Does US Steel pay a dividend?
United States Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share, with a dividend yield of 0.17%.
Who is the biggest steel producer in the United States?
Steel Company Summaries and Info. Luxembourg’s ArcelorMittal ranks as the top steel producer, with 95.45 million tonnes of output. The company serves major markets such as automotive, construction, household appliances and packaging.
Which country has the highest quality steel?
Where did Carnegie build the biggest steel plant in the world?
In the 1880s and 1890s, Andrew Carnegie had built the Carnegie Steel Company into one of the largest and most-profitable steel companies in the United States. The Homestead steel mill, located a few miles from Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River, was one of the largest of Carnegie’s mills.
Who built the largest steel manufacturer in the world?
The company formed in 1892 and was subsequently sold in 1901 in one of the largest ever business transactions of the early 20th century, to become the major component of the United States Steel Corporation. The subsequent sale made Carnegie one of the richest men in history….Carnegie Steel Company.
Services manufacturing
How did Carnegie help the economy?
In the early 1870s, Carnegie co-founded his first steel company, near Pittsburgh. Over the next few decades, he created a steel empire, maximizing profits and minimizing inefficiencies through ownership of factories, raw materials and transportation infrastructure involved in steel making.
Where is the best quality steel made?
The top steel producing countries are China, Japan, India, US, Russia, South Korea, Germany, Brazil, Turkey, and Ukraine.
Why Andrew Carnegie is a hero?
Andrew Carnegie is a hero because he helped the community a lot. Although he didn’t treat his workers as good as possible, he donated back to the community a lot and produced a lot of steel to better the world. In the year of 1889 Andrew Carnegie owned Carnegie Steel Corporation, the largest of its kind in the world.
Did Andrew Carnegie marry a maid?
On April 22, 1887, she married Carnegie at her family’s home in New York City in a private ceremony officiated by a pastor from the Church of the Divine Paternity, a Universalist church to which the Whitfields belonged. At the time of the marriage, Louise was 30; Carnegie was 51.
Is United States Steel a good stock?
Takeaway. U.S. Steel is one of my favorite macro stocks. Unfortunately, right now, the stock has entered what I like to call a ‘grey area’ when it comes to valuation. The stock is up significantly from its cycle lows, supported by higher steel prices and better economic expectations.
What did Carnegie do that was good?
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was one of the most successful businessmen and most recognized philanthropists in history. His entrepreneurial ventures in America’s steel industry earned him millions and he, in turn, made great contributions to social causes such as public libraries, education and international peace.
Who did Carnegie sell his business to in 1901?
What stock paid the highest dividend?
These 10 stocks could be great buys if the real estate and energy sectors recover next year.
Lumen (NYSE:LUMN) 9.84% 84%
Energy Transfer LP (NYSE:ET) 15.74% 230%
MPLX LP (NYSE:MPLX) 12.16% 265%
Phillips 66 Partners (NYSE:PSXP) 12.58% 90%
Did Andrew Carnegie have a monopoly?
Gradually, he created a vertical monopoly in the steel industry by obtaining control over every level involved in steel production, from raw materials, transportation and manufacturing to distribution and finance. By 1897, he controlled almost the entire steel industry in the United States.
Is the Carnegie family still wealthy?
Yet despite his efforts, Carnegie still died rich. In his will, Carnegie gave $30 million, the bulk of his remaining fortune, to the Carnegie Corporation, which he hoped would help establish international laws and foster world peace.
What is the largest steel mill in the United States?
Gary Works
Where is the largest steel mill in the world?
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