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The Trouble with Older Fathers
By Anita Slomski // Spring 2013
As science has attempted to accommodate women’s desire to prolong their childbearing years, men have tended to worry much less about the ticking of their biological clocks. But new research from Iceland suggests older men don’t get a free pass. In the largest study to date, whole genome sequencing was performed on 78 nuclear families—father, mother and child—to find genetic mutations that appear only in the child. Spontaneous mutations that occur at the time of conception—known as de novo mutations—are important in natural selection, helping delete the function of genes that may be disadvantageous to the species. But about 10% of de novo mutations are considered harmful, giving offspring a higher risk of autism, schizophrenia and other disorders and diseases.
Fathers pass on nearly four times as many de novo mutations as do mothers, and the older the father is, the more mutations the child receives. Because men make approximately 200 million sperm a day, the precursor stem cells that turn into sperm are continually dividing—and creating opportunities for mutations to arise. According to the Icelandic study, the mutation rate doubles with every 16.5 years of age and increases eightfold in 50 years.
“One out of 30 people is born with a de novo mutation that results in the loss of the function of a gene,” which is bound to have some impact on that person’s traits, says neurologist Kari Stefansson, chief executive of deCODE Genetics in Reykjavik and an author of the study. Given that half of all human genes affect the brain, coding errors in DNA are particularly likely to contribute to neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. Stefansson notes that people with those largely inherited disorders tend to have few children, so logically the diseases should become less and less common. “Yet autism is on the rise today, and the prevalence of schizophrenia has remained the same for the past 100 years,” he says. “There must be a very significant contribution by de novo mutations.”
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Caribana, the Greatest Celebration:
The Greatest Celebration
by Cecil Foster, Chris Schwarz,
People Who Make a Difference
by Brent Ashabranner, Paul Conklin,
After Geometry:
The Abstract Art of Claude Tousignant
by James D. Campbell,
by Terry James,
Yukon:
Spellbound under Northern Skies
by Theo Allofs,
Brief Reviews - Gift Books - Diversity of Gifts
by Diana Brebner
A few years ago, at my eldest daughter's elementary school book sale, I found a small, simple, perfect book called From Ben Loman to the Sea, published by Nimbus Publishing. It consists of a long folk poem by Lance Woolaver, with, on every other page, facing the verses, a bright, "primitive" painting by Maud Lewis, Nova Scotia's "Grandma Moses". This was my chance introduction to the folk art of Nova Scotia.
Nimbus has recently reprinted the very popular and useful exhibition catalogue Nova Scotia Folk Art (Nimbus, 49 pages, $12.95 paper), edited by Bernard Riordon, the curator of a Canada House exhibit that circulated in the UK in 1989 and 1990, showing everything from portraits to weathervanes, quilts, gunracks, embroidery samplers, wooden sculptures, and even a crocheted armchair. It was a great success and the catalogue had become a collector's item. This new printing is welcome and a copy would be a great gift for anyone with an interest in folk art.
Two other new books from Nimbus are less esoteric and fall perhaps into the category of "tourist book". Yukon: Spellbound under Northern Skies (Nimbus, 129 pages, $29.95 cloth) is the kind of coffee-table book from which my European relatives develop their peculiar ideas about Canada. The photographer Theo Allofs, originally from Germany, comes to the Yukon with the same European fascination with wilderness, frontiers, and open space. He is, technically, an excellent photographer with a romantic sensibility, a somewhat conservative sense of composition, and an open-eyed use of colour that reflects the vitality of the Yukon and Yukoners. In the midst of magnificent landscape photographs there are also lively and whimsical shots: a man with three llamas in Kluane National Park, calf-roping at the Whitehorse rodeo, some fetching grizzly photos, a patient sled dog having his felt booties adjusted, and my favourite, "Curious Eyes", which depicts a sled dog peering out in resignation from his transport box.
Somewhat less successful is Terry James's Nova Scotia (Nimbus, 96 pages, $19.95 cloth), which errs too often on the side of caution, even for a gift book. While the photographs are pleasant enough I never had the sense of passionate interest that was evident in Allofs's book. Only one photograph, a winter scene of a Hereford oxen race, jumped out at me as being fresh and interesting, so I wasn't surprised to read that James is also the author of In Praise of Oxen. There are few photographs with people in them and I couldn't help but notice that almost all the active people in his photographs are white and male. Although brief mention is made of the African-Canadian, Acadian, and Micmac communities in the brief introduction, there are no photographs of these people, while women and girls fare not much better-they appear in historical dress at Louisbourg or performing traditional Highland dance. Now, a Nova Scotia from George Elliott Clarke or Rita Joe, that would be interesting!
The African-Canadian community is definitely evident in Caribana (Ballantine Books, 96 pages, $16.95 paper), which is less a gift book than a souvenir album. Cecil Foster and Chris Schwarz have collaborated to produce a big, splashy, colourful book that explores the origins and events of the Caribana festival that is held every August in Toronto. In early years the festival occurred in an atmosphere of radicalism but also in one of hope for change in attitudes. This was a time of visits to Toronto by Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Martin Luther King, and a young Derek Walcott, whose play "Dream On Monkey Mountain" was produced as part of the first Caribana festival.
The authors capture the excitement and energy of the parade/street dance/celebration, and also go behind the scenes to capture the invisible hands and faces of those who make the elaborate costumes and provide support to the performers. This book is sure to bring smiles of recognition to Caribana "regulars" and to pique the interest of those of us who've never been there, done it, got the T-shirt.
Now, a very different kind of gift, and book is People Who Make A Difference (Viking/Penguin, 218 pages, $50.00 cloth). What can I say about a book whose sub-title is Photographers and Friends Against AIDS without sounding like a heartless scrooge? First of all, I come from the left-hand-not-knowing-what-the-right-hand-is-doing school of giving so I would be embarrassed to have a big, do-gooder coffee-table book lying about where people could see it. That aside, I still have problems with People Who Make A Difference. This is not a book of photographs of people with AIDS who have made a difference (which might have been more interesting) but of "famous people" like Roberta Bondar, Jean Chr�tien, and Douglas Cardinal. Artists, writers, designers, and dancers mix with bank presidents, George Cohon (McDonald's head honcho in Canada), and Mr. Dressup. One wonders, too, whether some of the subjects are included because of the size of their pocketbooks. Margaret Atwood in her introduction says, "This book, too, is sort of sublime irrelevance." How true. I'll just write a cheque, thanks, and do without this expensive, tree-chomping, picture book.
A big book for a big show is Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 500 pages, $125.00 cloth), which features works from an exhibition this year at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. I have always associated the name "symbolism" with what I thought was primarily a literary movement, in particular with French poets of the nineteenth century such as Mallarm� and Baudelaire.
This superbly produced and sumptuously illustrated book shows us links between writers, painters, sculptors, and designers from almost every European country. These works are what I was educated to call, somewhat derisively, "decadent art". The organizers and essayists respond to this point. Was symbolism a decadent movement or a modern one? Was it renovatio or innovatio? Its most obvious heirs are Art Deco, German expressionism, and surrealism, which all recombine many of the themes, symbols, and forms of representation found in symbolist work, and which continue to reflect the despair, disconnectedness, and disruption of fin-du-si�cle and early twentieth-century art and life.
Myth, symbol, narrative, and the figure all have a large role in symbolist work. Many pieces in the exhibit are "bad art", according to contemporary criteria, and symbolist art is, I think it fair to say, an acquired taste. What is fascinating in this book is to see, amid the works of rather obscure artists, interesting ones by Redon, Burne-Jones, Rodin, Klee, Klimt, Gauguin, and Munch. Also arresting is the surreal lyricism of photographers such as Frederick Holland Day and Anne Brigman. The writers of the essays have gone to great lengths to show us how all these works are connected to the symbolist movement, with varying degrees of success but always with a laudable sense of exploration and re -evaluation.
Always one to eat my red Smarties last, I've saved and savoured After Geometry: The Abstract Art of Claude Tousignant by James D. Campbell (ECW Press, 179 pages, $65.00 cloth, $500.00 limited edition with signed monochrome). Where Lost Paradise is sumptuous verging on voluptuous, After Geometry is cleanly beautiful. Carefully and intelligently written, with colour plates selected from rarely seen paintings in the artist's own as well as private collections, this book is an art lover's delight.
Campbell is a distinguished writer on art and a frequent contributor to such magazines as Espace and Parachute. In 1996, ECW will publish his Abstract Art in Canada: A Concise History.
He traces Tousignant's career from his early years. The recent work includes his well-known "monochromes" and the very interesting charcoal and graphite series "Suite Wittgenstein", which is reproduced here. The book's crowning glories are the last two chapters. In "Some Implications of an Abstract Art", Campbell tries to answer his opening questions:
"How can one meaningfully come to terms with a corpus so cohesive, implicit in which is such an implacable logic and such a genetic process of making? How can one fathom so svelte an evolutionary arc? What would be the implications of treating Tousignant's abstract practice as a radicalized form of writing and reading? Does it make sense to suggest that a monochrome painting can be interpreted as a semantic space?"
He concludes eloquently, intimately, and somewhat playfully, with "The Anatomy of a Painter's Doubt", using such examples as "Le voyage au bout du bleu" and the white and white monochrome "Blanc et blanc" (what else would it be called?) to explore Tousignant's constant evolution as an artist.
Tousignant has always worked towards creating art devoid of reference and allusion. No narrative, literary, or representational elements here, only the search for pure chroma, a continually reinventive approach to abstraction.
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Survivalists get ready for meltdown
Survivalists believe in preparing to cope after the total collapse of society
They move to remote areas and stockpile food, water and guns and ammunition
Disaster scenarios include global hyperinflation and climate change
Survivalism has been linked with far-right political views -- which advocates deny
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By Paul Willis for CNN
LONDON , England (CNN) -- Derek is compiling a survival guide on how to cope after the total collapse of society. It is, as you can imagine, a big job.
Survivalists believe in preparing against the worst: stockpiling food and guns.
Already he has 58.8 gigabytes of material stored on his computer, he tells me impressively.
Derek (this is not his real name -- he says he doesn't want me to use his real name "for obvious reasons" that he never gets round to explaining) considers himself a survivalist.
The survivalist movement grew up in America in the 1960s. Encouraged by Cold War-era government's calls to build nuclear fallout shelters, and concerns over currency devaluation, individuals and groups began to take steps to prepare themselves against the worst.
Many survivalists in the U.S. relocate to the northwestern state of Idaho, stockpiling food, and quite often guns and ammunition, and learning how to be self-sufficient in order to survive or "disappear."
To those who have heard of it at all, survivalism is sometimes associated with extremist views. In the U.S., the movement has occasionally been hijacked by far-right groups attracted by its rejection of much of government and its fierce defense of the right to bear arms.
For example, Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh was obsessed with survivalism as a teenager, setting up a generator and a store of canned food and potable water in his basement.
Gaia straits: Planetary doctor says condition terminal
'Two dead' inside doomsday cult cave
Jim Rawles' Survival blog
Apocalyptic daze
For defenders of the movement, like Jim Rawles who runs a survivalist blog and lives "in a very lightly populated region west of the Rockies" this perversion by a "lunatic fringe" distorts the true message of survivalism, which is, in many ways, just about personal freedom.
Derek, 60, who moved from London to the countryside in the southeast of England four years ago, puts it another way.
"There's going to be absolute pandemonium when it does happen, so I just want to be prepared so that I'm not a burden on anyone," he says.
What this disaster might be is anyone's guess, says Derek, but he's got his hunches.
Climate change is high up on the list. Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.
Even so, Derek suspects he may not live to see the meltdown he predicts is on its way.
This is perhaps why his own preparations are rather spartan. Aside from the survival manual, he has a backpack filled with a few essentials - what survivalists term a "bug-out." He keeps the rucksack in the trunk of his car; it contains a stove, dried food, blankets, boots, clothes and "a spare set of me and the wife's pills."
Jim Rawles is taking no such chances. A former U.S. army intelligence officer, he lives on a ranch in an undisclosed location with his wife (who he refers to in his blog affectionately as "the Memsahib") and their children.
Their life is almost entirely self-sufficient: They keep livestock, hunt elk and the children are schooled at home. Stored away in the ranch somewhere is a three-year supply of food.
For a city dweller it sounds almost idyllic, though Rawles -- a gently spoken and affable man -- insists it's a lot of hard work.
"The majority of survivalists live in suburban areas and they see a life away from that as an ideal," he says. "Unfortunately, from a practical standpoint it's not possible so I think for some of these people we're living out their fantasies."
When he's not looking after the ranch or re-ordering the food supply, he devotes much of his time to the blog, which he says now receives up to 70,000 visits a week.
A life-long devotee of survivalism -- he had his first "bug-out" packed when he was just 14 -- the 48-year-old has become an unofficial spokesman for the movement.
He has penned a number of books on preparedness, including a novel called "Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse." Set in the near future, it imagines a period of hyperinflation and socio-economic collapse, providing guidance on how to cope.
Although a work of fiction, Rawles believes the reality is not far off.
"I've come to the conclusion that the biggest lynchpin is the power grid. If it were to go down, either through economic collapse or a terrorist atrocity, then the cities are going to become unglued."
Of course, none of this kind of talk is that new. The nature of the threat may have changed but groups of various descriptions have been predicting a breakdown of society since biblical times -- and very occasionally they've been right.
What does seem to have changed, according to Rawles, is the type of people willing to take that threat seriously.
Not only does he believe that the movement is experiencing its largest growth since the late 1970s, but he counts among the new converts an increasing number of greens and left-wingers.
"They're worried by peak oil; the climate shift; the fragility of the economy. They share a lot of the same concerns as our conservative readers," he says.
But with so many possible doomsday scenarios to choose from, isn't it difficult to know what preparations to make?
Rawles says you need to be versatile. For example, a home shelter, he says, should be able to serve as a storm shelter against hurricanes, a pantry, a secure room for storing weapons, and as a fallout bunker in the event of nuclear attack.
It all sounds vaguely terrifying -- but Rawles insists he's not being paranoid.
"I really don't consider it alarmist, and knowing what I know about the fragility of society I wouldn't sleep soundly if I hadn't taken the preparations that I have." E-mail to a friend
From psychiatrist to 'Butcher of Bosnia' Why trial could take years
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Memphis Made Brewery to tap into Cooper-Young area in summer 2013
by Christopher Whitten | MicroMemphis Reporter
If beer and Memphis go together, according to Drew Barton, then so do Cooper-Young and Memphis Made.
Barton has purchased the 6,000 square foot space at 768 Cooper, which he plans to transform into a brewery that will be brewing about 1,000 barrels a week once it opens this summer.
The brewery will offer an India Pale Ale and a Kolsh to start, but that’s a little bit further down the road, Barton said. For initial tastes, beer enthusiasts will have to resort to finding the local brew in Memphis-are bars and restaurants, the list, Barton said, he is keeping to himself for now.
Barton is a founding member of the Cooper-Young Regional Beerfest committee and part-time bartender at the Flying Saucer. He spent five years working his way from delivery driver to head brewer at French Broad Brewery in Ashville, N. C. He has been brewing from home for about ten.
“I started home when I was in college," Barton said. "As soon as I made that first batch, I knew that that’s what I wanted to do with the rest of my life."
A graduate of White Station High School, Barton and his wife recently moved back to Memphis.
“[North Carolina] was great,” Barton said. “But what I really wanted was to come back home and open a brewery in my hometown.”
So he’s doing just that.
“It’s going slow, but I don’t know what timeline is right,” Barton said. “Some time this summer, we should be up and running. ”
He is still in the buildout phase of his dream right now, but he said the state and Federal licensing should go smoothly.
“I started home when I was in college. As soon as I made that first batch, I knew that that’s what I wanted to do with the rest of my life." Drew Barton, Memphis Made Brewery owner
He and his wife had both lived in Cooper-Young previously, so that’s where they started looking. But the search didn’t produce many prospects early on and Barton had started looking in other parts of town when the commercial space was finally listed for lease.
Barton’s brew will be competing with another brand set to tap into the market this year, High Cotton, opening in the Edge district near Downtown Memphis.
Memphis Made and High Cotton join the likes of Boscos and Ghost River, all ready being produced and sought out by many.
Barton said Memphis has plenty of people to support the multiple brands, and doesn’t worry about the competition.
“There’ll be a lot of different beers in the market which will be good,” Barton said.
John Anderson, frequently meets with his friends at a local pub and said he always orders local beers when they are on the menu.
"I love Bosco's and I brew at home," Anderson said. "Memphis Made sounds like they are on the right track to get my order. I can't wait to try it."
Barton said he plans to man to his brewery alone at first and hire as needed. While he plans to put out his maximum capacity this year at about 2,000 kegs, he will extend his production as soon as he can. Barton said he hopes eventually to offer a tasting room, tours and on-premises keg and growler sales.
Until the brand makes its way out of planning and onto local restaurants’ menus, visit www.memphismadebrewing.com for more information.
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FFBC Blog Tour & Giveaway: The Girl I Used To Be (April Henry)
The Girl I Used to Be
by April Henry
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Release Date: May 3rd 2016
Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller, Contemporary, Suspense
When Olivia's mother was killed, everyone suspected her father of murder. But his whereabouts remained a mystery. Fast forward fourteen years. New evidence now proves Olivia's father was actually murdered on the same fateful day her mother died. That means there's a killer still at large. It's up to Olivia to uncover who that may be. But can she do that before the killer tracks her down first?
Follow the The Girl I Used To Be by April Henry Blog Tour and don't miss anything! Click on the banner to see the tour schedule.
I write mysteries and thrillers. I live in Portland, Oregon with my family.
If you've read one of my books, I would love to hear from you. Hearing from readers makes me eager to keep writing.
When I was 12, I sent a short story about a six-foot tall frog who loved peanut butter to Roald Dahl, the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He liked it so much he arranged to have it published in an international children's magazine.
My dream of writing went dormant until I was in my 30s, working at a corporate job, and started writing books on the side. Those first few years are now thankfully a blur. Now I'm very lucky to make a living doing what I love. I have written 13 novels for adults and teens, with more on the way. My books have gotten starred reviews, been picked for Booksense, translated into six languages, been named to state reading lists, and short-listed for the Oregon Book Award.
I also review YA literature and mysteries and thrillers for the Oregonian, and have written articles for both The Writer and Writers Digest.
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16 December 2013 Mariusz Szczygieł as the Journalist of the Year according to Press
Mariusz Szczygieł – a journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza and a guest of the first edition of the Conrad Festival – was selected the 2013 Journalist of the Year. It is an award for professionalism, promoting global standards of work in the media, and following the ethical principles of the profession. Nominations are submitted by editorial meetings of Polish newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and online portals. Congratulations!
Mariusz Szczygieł is a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Warsaw. He began working for the Na przełaj weekly right after his matriculation examination. He has worked for Gazeta Wyborcza since 1990, and he has been the editor of the Duży Format supplement since 2004. In the years 1995-2001, he hosted the Na każdy temat talk show on Polsat. He published two books: Niedziela, która zdarzyła się w środę (1996) and Gottland (2006) – translated into 8 languages. Awards he received for it include the Readers’ Award in the 2007 Nike competition, two Warsaw Literary Premiere Awards – the Book of the Month and the Book of the Year, the Beata Pawlak Award, and Prix Amphi in France. Awarded the Gratias Agit Prize by the government of the Czech Republic (2009). He received the 2004 Melchior Prize from the Polish Radio for his reportorial work on Czech-related issues. He conducted original workshop seminars on reportage at the University of Warsaw. Together with Bożena Dudko, he was the originator of the concept of the Ryszard Kapuściński Collection and its editor (published by Agora, 2008). He established the Institute of Reportage (2009) along with Paweł Goźliński and Wojciech Tochman. He lives in Warsaw, but his spirit – as he says – remains in Prague.
Festival meetings with emerging writers, winners of the Krakow, the UNESCO City of Literature Award 15 October 2021
Film band at the Conrad Festival 8 October 2021
About the book market for professionals but not only – Book Congress during the Conrad Festival 6 October 2021
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Less Carbon taken by trees in warmer climate, save Earth!
Save forests for this Beautiful Earth!
Contrary to conventional belief, as the climate warms and growing seasons lengthen subalpine forests are likely to soak up less carbon dioxide, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.
As a result, more of the greenhouse gas will be left to concentrate in the atmosphere.
“Our findings contradict studies of other ecosystems that conclude longer growing seasons actually increase plant carbon uptake,” said Jia Hu, who conducted the research as a graduate student in CU-Boulder’s ecology and evolutionary biology department in conjunction with the university’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.
The study will be published in the February edition of the journal Global Change Biology.
Working with ecology and evolutionary biology professor and CIRES Fellow Russell Monson, Hu found that while smaller spring snowpack tended to advance the onset of spring and extend the growing season, it also reduced the amount of water available to forests later in the summer and fall. The water-stressed trees were then less effective in converting CO2 into biomass. Summer rains were unable to make up the difference, Hu said.
“Snow is much more effective than rain in delivering water to these forests,” said Monson. “If a warmer climate brings more rain, this won’t offset the carbon uptake potential being lost due to declining snowpacks.”
Drier trees also are more susceptible to beetle infestations and wildfires, Monson said.
The researchers found that even as late in the season as September and October, 60 percent of the water in stems and needles collected from subalpine trees along Colorado’s Front Range could be traced back to spring snowmelt. They were able to distinguish between spring snow and summer rain in plant matter by analyzing slight variations in hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the water molecules.
The results suggest subalpine trees like lodgepole pine, subalpine fir and Englemann spruce depend largely on snowmelt, not just at the beginning of the summer, but throughout the growing season, according to the researchers.
“As snowmelt in these high-elevation forests is predicted to decline, the rate of carbon uptake will likely follow suit,” said Hu.
Subalpine forests currently make up an estimated 70 percent of the western United States’ carbon sink, or storage area. Their geographic range includes much of the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada and high-elevation areas of the Pacific Northwest.
Study co-authors included David Moore of King’s College London and Sean Burns of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and CU-Boulder.
As a result, more of the greenhouse gas will be left to concentrate in the atmosphere.”Our findings contradict studies of other ecosystems that conclude longer growing seasons actually increase plant carbon uptake,” said Jia Hu, who conducted the research as a graduate student in CU-Boulder’s ecology and evolutionary biology department in conjunction with the university’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.The study will be published in the February edition of the journal Global Change Biology.Working with ecology and evolutionary biology professor and CIRES Fellow Russell Monson, Hu found that while smaller spring snowpack tended to advance the onset of spring and extend the growing season, it also reduced the amount of water available to forests later in the summer and fall. The water-stressed trees were then less effective in converting CO2 into biomass. Summer rains were unable to make up the difference, Hu said.”Snow is much more effective than rain in delivering water to these forests,” said Monson. “If a warmer climate brings more rain, this won’t offset the carbon uptake potential being lost due to declining snowpacks.”Drier trees also are more susceptible to beetle infestations and wildfires, Monson said.The researchers found that even as late in the season as September and October, 60 percent of the water in stems and needles collected from subalpine trees along Colorado’s Front Range could be traced back to spring snowmelt. They were able to distinguish between spring snow and summer rain in plant matter by analyzing slight variations in hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the water molecules.The results suggest subalpine trees like lodgepole pine, subalpine fir and Englemann spruce depend largely on snowmelt, not just at the beginning of the summer, but throughout the growing season, according to the researchers.”As snowmelt in these high-elevation forests is predicted to decline, the rate of carbon uptake will likely follow suit,” said Hu.Subalpine forests currently make up an estimated 70 percent of the western United States’ carbon sink, or storage area. Their geographic range includes much of the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada and high-elevation areas of the Pacific Northwest.Study co-authors included David Moore of King’s College London and Sean Burns of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and CU-Boulder.
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Super Gran Facebook
All grandparents are awesome, that is an undeniable fact of life. But some are more awesome than others, and Lillian Lowe ranks highly in my opinion.
How old is the oldest person you are friends with on Facebook? I’m guessing none will be as old as Lillian Lowe from Tenby in Wales. Because at 103-years-old, she is believed to be the oldest person in the world to use Facebook. Even more amazing is the fact she accesses the social networking site via her Grandson’s iPad.
Already known to her grandchildren as Super Gran, they have now re-nicknamed her Superhighway Gran after she joined Facebook despite being several generations older than the average Facebook user. At the moment Lowe has around 30 friends, mostly family, but with the story of her presence on the site spreading around the Web that is sure to rise. That is, at least, if she decides to accept the mountain of friend requests heading her way.
Lowe told Tenby Today:
It’s a wonderful way of finding out about things, but I must say it’s a dreadful time waster!
Her grandson Steve Lowe, who helped set her up on the site and who lends her his Apple iPad to check it regularly, commented:
What’s great about Gran is that she’s not afraid to take things on and is always willing to learn – she’s a great inspiration to us all.
Lowe is thought to be the oldest Facebook user in the world as the former holder of that title, Ivy Bean, sadly passed away earlier this year at the ripe old age of 104. Bean was also considered to be the oldest Twitter user as well, but though Lowe knows what Twitter is, she isn’t yet using the site. Give it time.
This may be a fun little story on the surface but actually it’s one that demonstrates age is no barrier to using technology and the Internet. The iPad, and tablets in general, could help older people take the plunge and begin to explore computers and the Web. And that is something I’d love to see happen more and more.
10-year girl becomes mother in Spain : Father 13 Year Old
10 year old Mother in Spain- Courtesy 9 News
MADRID: 10 year old girl has given birth in southern Spain and authorities are evaluating whether to let her and her family retain custody of the baby, an official said on Tuesday.
The baby was born last week in the city of Jerez de la Frontera, said Micaela Navarro, who is the Andalusia region’s minister of social affairs.
Navarro told reporters the father of the baby is also a minor, and both the mother and the baby were in good health. Her department declined to give further details , such as the sex of baby.
The father of the 2.9-kilo (6.4-pound) baby was 13 years old and had remained in Romania, she said, describing him as her daughter’s former boyfriend.
The young mother “is very well, very well, like the daughter who is very well and very pretty,” Olimpia was quoted as saying.
The 10-year-old, discharged after three days at a hospital in nearby Jerez where she gave birth, “is very happy with her daughter. This is a great joy. It is not a drama,” she reportedly said.
National daily said the number of births to girls aged under 15 in Spain had climbed to 178 births in 2008 from 80 in 1997.
Telenor Ad’s Disgracing and giving Disrespect to Women
BY : Mrs. Mehvish Imran
Telenor - Applying Western Culture
Telenor’s new TV commercial ‘internet more” is based on disgraceful words used against women who form more than 51% of the population of Pakistan. Labeling a college girl as “Taza Hawa Ka Jhonka”, it shows the degradation of society as a whole. It is a source of resentment and an assault on sanctity of women for many believing in social values.
The misuse of technology i.e. mobile internet service has been promoted unethically targeting immature minds of college and school going students. Setting aside the responsibility as a corporate entity, telenor preferred immoral language to promote its services among present and prospective users across the country.
“Jisay Moqa Patay hi Talha Nain Kar Dya TAG” is an offensive street language used in Telenor’s advertisement against women. It’s an insult to one’s intelligence and need to be condemned widely.
Multinationals are expected to follow values that show respect to individuals. Whenever they derail from this, they not only offend their customers but also the larger community they operate in. They are least expected to pick the regressive parts of popular culture and give them a lease of life.
Media’s power to influence public opinion is on the rise in Pakistan. The spread of a message has been increased drastically with the coming in of private TV Channels. At this point of time commercial entities promoting goods and service must work with the highest sense of responsibility. Can Telenor avoid letting down those who are struggling for better gender sensitive society in Pakistan?
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PayPal’s CEO says his father is the leader he most admires, teaching him the value of humility and listening
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman can boast at least one great business mentor, having spent eight years being personally mentored by Virgin founder Richard Branson.
But he credits his father with teaching him one of his most valuable leadership lessons.
Schulman spoke to the Financial Times about his journey transitioning online payments giant PayPal into a broader payments platform and his views on cryptocurrencies.
He was also asked to share some leadership advice and asked to name his leadership hero. He chose his father, Mel Schulman, described as a World War Two veteran and chemical engineer.
"He always said: ‘You aren’t what you say you are, you are what you do — be as authentic as you can," Schulman told the newspaper. "Things change on the ground: whatever we talk about today, tomorrow will be different. But you and I are the same person."
He went on to explain that his father taught him his first leadership lesson — one that has continued to serve him throughout his career.
"My Dad said something to me early on in my life: ‘Real respect, real leadership comes from softer things like humility, listening to people, respect — that’s what inspires people,’" Schulman said.
There has been growing awareness over the last couple of decades as to the effectiveness of leaders who display traits like emotional intelligence, empathy, and kindness over those who are tough leaders or excel at driving profits.
Soft skills have become even more important since the beginning of the pandemic, as employees have struggled with the burnout, uncertainty, and loneliness of remote work.
Schulman has previously been CEO of Virgin Mobile between 2001 and 2009, an executive at American Express and Verizon, and joined PayPal in 2014 just after it had split from parent Ebay.
His time at the helm has coincided with PayPal’s transformation from a company that he describes as one a lot of people thought "had seen its best days" to a business with a market capitalization of more than $320 billion.
He has a reputation for his empathetic leadership.
Insider previously reported Schulman raised wages after learning that PayPal employees were struggling to cover their basic living expenses. In 2014, he spent 24 hours living on the streets in New York to experience what it felt like.
Schulman credits Branson with teaching him that successful businesses put their employees first and has previously said that the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga had impacted his approach to business and leadership because it had taught him how to pick his battles.
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Wittgenstein's Drachenflugexperiment
Thanks to my grandfather and a number of his contemporaries, I do not speak German. As you might have gathered, however, I am a huge fan of the late W.G. Sebald: a German author, who, despite speaking excellent English and living most of his adult life in Norwich, wrote almost exclusively in his native tongue. English monolinguals like me have Sebald's excellent translators, Michael Hulse and Anthea Bell, ably assisted by Sebald himself, to thank for the English translations of his masterpieces The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, The Emigrants, and Austerlitz. We also, incidentally, have the same Anthea Bell to thank for the magnificent English translations of many of the Asterix books. But I digress, as usual.
In order to try to get my head around Sebald's writing, I am currently working my way through a rather academic book entitled W.G. Sebald—a Handbook (review to follow). I am enjoying the book very much—particularly those sections which I can understand. This is not mock-modesty on my behalf, as it turns out that a couple of the sections of the book are written in German, without any English translation.
As I was flicking uncomprehendingly through these German sections yesterday, a short Sebaldian paragraph leapt out of the page at me:
Auf den Pennines. 1910. W. und der Freund Eccles. Das Drachenflugexperiment. W. schaut dem Drachen nach, der immer mehr an Höhe gewinnt.
It was, of course, the word Pennines—the hills in which I now live—that caught my attention. I knew that Sebald had lived in Manchester for a number of years, and he mentions the Pennines once or twice in his writing, but I was intrigued to understand what the above paragraph meant.
Thanks to Google Translate, I have an answer. The above paragraph apparently translates as follows:
On the Pennines. 1910. W. and his friend Eccles. The kite-flying experiment. W. looks at the dragon that is gaining in height.
Ah, yes, but who is ‘W’? The obvious, although incorrect, answer is that it is W.G. Sebald himself. We know this is incorrect for three reasons:
W.G. Sebald was not alive in 1910. It could be argued that 1910 refers to 7:10pm, but it clearly does not;
W.G. Sebald's full name was Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald. For personal reasons, he tended not to use the names Winfried Georg—one reason being that his first name sounded like a girl's name to his English friends. He much preferred to be called Max. Therefore, if Sebald were writing about himself in the third person, using only an initial, he would probably have put either ‘M’ or ‘S’;
an English footnote to the German chapter makes it perfectly clear that the ‘W’ in question is none other than the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
What's that you say? Ludwig Wittgenstein flying a kite in the Pennines?!
Anyone who has read Sebald will suspect that there is probably more than an ounce of truth to this story. And so it turns out. A bit more Googling soon revealed the following in John Dobson's online ‘Scrapbook’:
Wittgenstein Flies a Kite
It is not generally known that the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 — 1951) was an early researcher into the aerodynamics of flight. His first research post was at the University of Manchester (then known as Owens College) in the summer of 1908, when he moved to a kite-flying station at Glossop (near Manchester). In return for “constructing, sending up, and recovering the instrument-bearing kites” used for meteorological observation, he would get to use the equipment there for his own kite research. Apparently he was inexperienced, for he wrote home from Glossop that he first observed and then learned how to make a kite.
The work at the station was arduous and continuous. Sometimes there would be eight or ten ascents a day until as late as nine or ten at night. The kites would be sent up as high as 5,000 feet (naturally this demanded a train of kites). Sometimes the kites would escape or come down and then a correspondingly long distance would have to be traversed over rough pathless heather moors to recover them. The winch system used for that instrument-carrying kite system may well have been Cody's man-carrying kite system, and Cody likewise became interested in solving the problem of heavier-than-air flight through such inventions.
The photograph show[s] Wittgenstein (on the right) with his close friend and mentor William Eccles and the instrument-bearing kite on the moors above Glossop in the summer of 1908.
The story of this period of Wittgenstein's life is well researched and well told in Wittgenstein Flies a Kite by Susan Sterrett (Pi Press, New York: 2006), though the book is mainly concerned with his more successful and ground-breaking research into the philosophy of language.
Furthermore, there is even a website entitled In the Footsteps of Wittgenstein, which recently celebrated Wittgenstein's pioneering aviation work with a mass kite-flying over the Glossop hills.
We only get a few measly decades on this planet. How am I ever going to cram all this fascinating information in?
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: germans, philosophy, sebald
Nite Owl says:
Wittgenstein was a beery swine.......
He was just as sloshed as Schlegel, by some accounts.
From the fact that he had a friend called Eccles, do we deduce that Wittgenstein was in fact a character in the Goon show?
Apparently, the character of Bluebottle was based on Wittgenstein.
I am still working my way through Spike Milligan's war memoirs & am up to 'Where have all the bullets gone?'
I always thought that Goons was a reference to the name P.O.Ws gave to the German guards. Apparently, they were faceless baddies in 1930s cartoons.
Incidentally did you know that Nitzsche wrote the song 'Hard workin' man' which Capt. Beefheart recorded for the movie Blue Collar?....and Marcel Proust had an haddock!!!
Peter McGrath says:
13-Jun-2012 at 03:16
I went to secondary school in Glossop and lived there for a rainy, dismal year. I will look on it in a different light now I know that Wittengenstein flew kites there. That's on a par with discovering that J S Bach went lamping in Basingstoke.
Citizen for a day
Life imitates Gruts
Carter is an entertaining and well-read author. His work is filled with poetry, literature, history, and wider theoretical discussions and the humour is never forced upon the reader […] Bookshops are filled these days with books about nature. Few of them understand that nature is an interaction between human society and the wider world. Richard Carter’s walks and rumination remind us of the connectivity between all things, and they might lead you up a path, onto a moor and a walk to touch a trig point.
—Resolute Reader blog
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Some of our accomplishments over the years
By David HaaseApril 19, 2014Community, News, Uncategorized
The Health Association of African Canadians (HAAC) has identified diabetes as a priority issue as a chronic disease affecting many within our community. We have and continue to dedicate time and resources to raise awareness of the seriousness of the disease, particularly amongst youth.
Regional Outstanding Partnership Award (2010)
HAAC received the regional outstanding partnership award from the Canadian Diabetes Association in July 2010
Certificate accompanying the regional Outstanding Partnership Award.
National Outstanding Partnership Award (2010)
HAAC received the National Outstanding Partnership award from the Canadian Diabetes Association later in the same year.
The National Outstanding Partnership Award (alternate view)
In 2008, HAAC successfully secured funding from Public Health Agency of Canada for an African Nova Scotian Youth Diabetes Prevention Project. It is in part of the work done in partnership with the Canadian Diabetes Association for this project that HAAC received both the regional and national outsanding partnership awards. For more information visit Canadian Diabetes Association – Volunteer Awards (2010)
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The Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (ACEWH) recognized women’s leadership in health through the Leadership Award for Women’s Health in Atlantic Canada. HAAC was a recipient of this award which recognized leadership on the part of individuals and organizations working in our communities, universities (students included), healthcare facilities, and a wide range of private and public sector services.
Leadership Award for Women’s Health in Atlantic Canada (2002)
Leadership Award presented to former HAAC Board chair, Phyllis Marsh- Jarvis in 2002
Award recipients made significant contributions to the improvement of women’s health throughout Atlantic Canada.For more information visit: ACEWH – Women’s Leadership in Health Award
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Review essay
How oppressed are Muslims in India?
Nida Kirmani
Updated 02 Aug, 2016 08:38am
Muslims offer Eid prayers at the Jama Masjid, Delhi | Reuters
Muslims in India form the largest religious minority in the country. According to the 2011 Census, they comprise 14.4 per cent of India’s total population — roughly 174 million people. To use the word ‘minority’ for them, therefore, is misleading: they are the third-largest Muslim population anywhere in the world, after Indonesia and Pakistan. Minority status, however, refers to a group’s relative power vis-à-vis other groups rather than to its numbers alone (note the case of women everywhere or blacks in South Africa during the apartheid). In that sense, then, Indian Muslims certainly are a minority, particularly when one considers the growing influence of Hindu right-wing forces since the 1980s.
But just how oppressed are Muslims in India? For Pakistanis – and particularly for those whose families migrated from India – this question is a source of endless curiosity, not the least because the answer either justifies or undermines the very notion of the Pakistani nation-state. If Indian Muslims, in fact, are oppressed then – regardless of Pakistan’s myriad internal troubles – the people of Pakistan can still breathe a sigh of relief that they live in a land of their own. On the flip side, if Indian Muslims are not oppressed, then what exactly was the Partition trauma about? As academic literature produced on Indian Muslims in recent years tells us, there are no simple answers to these questions.
This sense of marginalisation has been steadily increasing since the rise to prominence of Hindu right-wing ideologies
Scholarly interest in Indian Muslims is not recent and can be traced to the colonial period. Orientalist scholars during the British era presented the subcontinent as a patchwork of different religious groups — an understanding that informed the policies of the colonial state and made its task of ruling its Indian subjects manageable. This understanding was echoed by the indigenous Hindu and Muslim elites who used religious identity as a means of shoring up their own power (a practice that continues even today on both sides of the religious divide and, indeed, on both sides of the India-Pakistan border). On the whole, this approach hindered the fluidity of beliefs and religious practices across communal boundaries which has always existed in the subcontinent, and which persists despite hindrances even today.
Saba Naqvi has documented the subcontinent’s syncretic traditions in her book In Good Faith: A Journey in Search of an Unknown India. She highlights many instances of boundary crossing that regularly take place across religious divides despite the best efforts of right-wing forces. For the most part, however, scholarship on religious communities in India has continued to repeat the notion that the most significant divide in that country – and the one that creates conflict most frequently – is the one between Hindus and Muslims. While this simplifies a much more complex reality, it subtly reinforces the logic of the two-nation theory.
Most of the scholarship on Indian Muslims produced in the last 50 years mimics the Orientalist approach in two important ways: it views one of the largest Muslim populations in the world as a homogenous and unified group; and, for the most part, it views that population through the lens of the north Indian urban elite. Books such as Hasan Suroor’s India’s Muslim Spring: Why is Nobody Talking about It? deny the vast diversity that exists among Indian Muslims in terms of region, class, sect, gender, and caste.
Hindu extremists demolish Babri mosque in Ayodhya, triggering widespread Hindu-Muslim violence in 1992 | AFP
His work, instead, focuses largely on middle-class, urban, north Indian Muslims as he argues that there has been an “awakening” among India’s Muslims which is driving them away from their supposed historical insularity and conservatism. In order to underscore his argument, he implies that there are two categories dividing the Muslim population of India: “good Muslims”, who are liberal and moderate in their political and religious leanings, and “bad Muslims”, who are conservative and fundamentalist in their outlook. Such a division is not just without any scholarly basis, it is also troubling as it drastically reduces the myriad political and religious views prevalent among Muslims living in different parts of India.
Similarly, Salman Khurshid, a prominent Congress politician since the 1980s, has recently made his own attempt to diagnose the problems of Indian Muslims. His book At Home in India: A Restatement of Indian Muslims is more a memoir than an academic study, but it suffers from a similar malaise as some other books, in that it attempts to represent all Indian Muslims through the experience of a few members of the urban elite. Much of the book is dedicated to revisiting debates over Muslim personal law – which preoccupied many writers throughout the 1980s and the 1990s – along with recounting of the history of Aligarh Muslim University, the quintessential bastion of the north Indian Muslim elite.
Though both Suroor and Khurshid raise the issue of a growing sense of marginalisation among Indian Muslims, neither is able to deal with this question in a meaningful way because their work is not sufficiently grounded in field research. Both are also, sadly, apologetic in tone, taking great pains to prove that Muslims are loyal subjects of the Indian state — a strategy used by minority elites to secure their position within the power structure since the colonial period.
Fortunately, such simplistic approaches to the study of Indian Muslims are waning. A new generation of scholars is emerging from different disciplines whose work is grounded in empirical research. Two recent books, for instance, shed light on the complexity and diversity among Muslims in India through the lens of political history.
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The first, Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation by Hilal Ahmed takes an innovative approach to understanding the evolution of Muslim politics in north India. The author focusses, in particular, on the discourse related to Indo-Islamic historic buildings such as the Jama Masjid in Delhi and the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya as a means for understanding the construction of Muslims as a political group by a variety of actors. In the process of unpacking how Muslim unity is asserted through these key sites, Ahmed cleverly demonstrates the constructed, contested and evolving nature of Indian Muslim identity itself.
His approach is important in that it does not take the category of Muslims as a given; rather, it traces the construction of this political category as a process that is both contested and continuously evolving. The book also moves away from simplistic binaries such as communal/secular that have plagued many other discussions of Indian Muslims.
One of the most notable recent contributions to the understanding of Muslim histories in India is Mohammad Sajjad’s Muslim Politics in Bihar: Changing Contours. It moves away from the former centres of Mughal power which have generally been the focus of studies on Indian Muslims. Sajjad’s carefully researched work outlines the rich history of political mobilisation among Muslims in Bihar, the third-most populous state in India and one with a significant Muslim population, from the colonial period to the present. The author highlights the resistance amongst Bihari Muslims to the two-nation theory. This has largely been overlooked in studies of the pre-independence period which generally focus on Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Bengal.
Sajjad, however, points out that Muslim political groups in Bihar were both anti-colonial and anti-separatist in orientation and regularly allied with Hindu groups in their political struggles. In the postcolonial period, he describes the movement for the promotion of Urdu – which began in the 1950s and continued through the 1980s – as a mass-based campaign, not carried out in religious and communal terms, but instead, on the basis of the rights guaranteed to linguistic minorities in the Indian constitution.
Sajjad points to another subject hitherto untouched by other scholars: the question of caste among Muslims. Though Muslim elites in India would have us believe that there is no caste system among Indian Muslims, the 1990s witnessed the emergence of two significant movements: the All-India Backward Muslim Morcha and the All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz. These two movements campaigned for the rights of lower-caste Muslims in Bihar.
Sajjad’s contribution is important in two ways. First, it focusses on a part of India that is under-researched when it comes to the study of Indian Muslims. Second, it not only highlights the issue of caste amongst Muslims but also focusses on mobilisation among – and also led by – non-elite groups. For this reason, his is a welcome addition to the existing literature on Indian Muslims.
Prayers being offered on the last day of the holy month of Ramzan at Jama Masjid, Dehli | Reuters
Though many Muslims in India occupy various important positions in the state and the society – which mostly depends on where they come from and what are their class, caste, and gender – a growing sense of marginalisation among Muslims across India is hard to deny. This sense of marginalisation has been steadily increasing since the rise to prominence of Hindu right-wing ideologies and organisations during the 1980s, when the Babri Masjid/Ram Janmabhoomi issue was used to sharpen religious divides across India. While the occurrence of communal violence has declined since the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, the alienation felt by religious minorities – including Muslims and Christians – has continued to increase, particularly after the victory of Narendra Modi as prime minister in the 2014 election.
The marginalisation of Muslims in India is, indeed, well documented. In the mid-2000s, the Indian government commissioned two studies — the Sachar Committee Report of 2006 and the Misra Commission Report of 2007. These highlighted a higher prevalence of discrimination towards Muslims and socio-economic deprivation among them as compared to other religious groups. Little concrete action, however, has been taken to address these issues at the policy level. If anything, the situation has only worsened.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its partner organisations in the Hindu right have started a concerted campaign against all religious minorities, including Muslims. The main features of this campaign include protests against the so-called ‘love jihad’ – Muslim men allegedly converting Hindu women to Islam by trapping them in love affairs – and ‘ghar wapsi’ (homecoming) initiatives which convert Muslims and Christians ‘back’ to Hinduism. Moves towards Hinduisation have also been taking place across India.
While Hindu nationalist groups are waging a concerted campaign against all religious minorities in their efforts to Hinduise India, Islamist forces are doing the same and even worse to religious minorities on this side of the border.
For example, the government in the state of Maharashtra – where the Shiv Sena has successfully drummed up anti-Muslim sentiments for years – recently imposed a ban on beef trading. This will disproportionately harm poor Muslims working in meat and leather industries. All of these are signs of growing intolerance and a gradual yet steady process of de-secularisation, which do not bode well for religious minorities in India.
As a result of these shifts in the Indian polity, academics have also begun to investigate the issue of marginalisation more seriously. One issue that has received attention in recent years is that of the spatial segregation of Muslims, particularly in urban areas. Two recent books discuss this issue in depth. The first one, Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation, is edited by two French scholars, Christophe Jaffrelot and Laurent Gayer. It is a collection of studies on Muslim mohallas – exclusively Muslim neighbourhoods or ghettos – in cities across India. Each chapter is dedicated to a different city and includes portraits of major cities such as Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Lucknow.
The book also includes research on cities which are rarely the focus of studies on Indian Muslims. These include Cuttack in Orissa, Kozhikode in Kerala and Bangalore in Karnataka.
By providing detailed studies of such diverse geographical sites, Muslims in Indian Cities draws attention to the vast diversity of experiences that exists among Indian Muslims. It provides a nuanced understanding of the issue of marginalisation, highlighting the fact that the reasons for spatial segregation of Muslims vary in different cities depending on the context. In cities such as Ahmedabad and Mumbai – where large-scale communal violence has taken place in the past – the level of spatial segregation and insecurity among Muslims is predictably high. In cities in southern and eastern parts of India, where Hindu nationalist groups have historically had less of a presence, Muslims are generally in a relatively secure position vis-à-vis other religious groups. This may be changing, however, as the Hindu right wing rapidly makes inroads into those parts of India as well.
An Indian Muslim man walks into a mosque in New Delhi. A portrait of Mahatma Gandhi hangs on the wall of the Delhi Police Headquarters in the background | AP
My own book Questioning ‘the Muslim Woman’: Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality focusses on the issue of marginalisation and insecurity among women living in Delhi. The book deliberately focusses on the experiences of Muslim women, who had previously only been viewed in a simplistic manner through the lens of the veil and personal law. Based on research conducted over the course of a year in Zakir Nagar, a neighbourhood situated in Delhi’s ‘Muslim belt’, my book highlights multiple and shifting factors that determine one’s experience of insecurity even within the same locality. If a range of experiences can exist within such a small geographical area as Zakir Nagar, one can only imagine the diversity of experiences that may exist within a huge country.
At the same time, Questioning ‘the Muslim Woman’ demonstrates a growing sense of marginalisation among all Muslims which is tied to the historical memory of various incidents of violence, beginning with the Partition. I conducted my research almost a decade ago and Muslim localities – including Zakir Nagar – have continuously grown since then. This points to the fact that marginalisation amongst Muslims is not decreasing, and may actually be growing as the forces of Hindutva become stronger across India.
Also read: Who feels safe in Pakistan
The state, too, has contributed to this sense of marginalisation. Since the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, Muslim men have increasingly become the targets of the state’s security forces. They face human rights abuses during siege and search operations carried out under the pretext of anti-terrorism operations, both within and outside the confines of the law. Two young men were killed in 2008 in the infamous Batla House encounter, which occurred in the same area where I had conducted my research; many others have been arrested without charge from that same area and countless more from across India.
Manisha Sethi’s book, Kafkaland: Prejudice, Law and Counterterrorism in India, carefully documents the dark underbelly of counterterrorism in which fake encounters and illegal detentions are regularly used as a means of asserting state power against unwanted citizens. Such state excesses have only increased the sense of alienation among Muslims — particularly those living in urban areas. Consequently, along with Dalits and Adivasis, Muslims make up a disproportionately high percentage of the prison population, mirroring the situation of African Americans in the United States.
One positive outcome of these negative developments is that there seemingly is a steady decline in generalist studies of Indian Muslims. Most of the recent literature, instead, suggests a growing maturity among scholars marked by an awareness of the diversity that exists within this vast population. There is also a shift towards empirically grounded studies. There are, however, still several areas that require further exploration, which is good news for budding scholars. These include the issue of caste among Muslims (a subject that also requires attention in Pakistan), which has remained a taboo for too long.
There is also a gaping hole in academic literature when it comes to studies of Muslims living in the southern and eastern parts of India – particularly in Assam – which houses the highest percentage of Muslims in the population of any state in India.
In order to correct the elite bias that has existed for long within academic literature on Indian Muslims and to properly understand the issue of socio-economic marginalisation among the community, more research needs to be conducted on poor and middle-class Muslims who comprise the vast majority of the Muslim population in India. Finally, more attention must be paid to the gendered experiences of being Muslim, moving beyond the simplistic notion of Muslim women ‘behind the veil’ and taking into account the growing insecurity among Muslim men.
Finally, to return to the fraught question with which I began this essay: just how oppressed are Indian Muslims? Though the formulation of this question is problematic for multiple reasons – not least of which is the assumption of uniformity amongst this group – I will hazard an answer: while Indian Muslims are undoubtedly facing increasing insecurity and marginalisation – particularly as Hindu right-wing forces become more powerful – they are still in a more secure position than religious minorities in Pakistan.
While Hindu nationalist groups are waging a concerted campaign against all religious minorities in their efforts to Hinduise India, Islamist forces are doing the same and even worse to religious minorities on this side of the border. The marginalisation of Muslims in India, therefore, must be viewed within the wider context of growing religious majoritarianism in South Asia as a whole — a process that began picking up steam in both India and Pakistan during the 1980s.
Also read: Heart of Darkness: Shia resistance and revival in Pakistan
Additionally, India is still officially a secular state where the rights of religious minorities are enshrined in the constitution, despite Modi government’s best efforts to the contrary. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Pakistan where the Objectives Resolution solidified a second-class constitutional status for non-Muslim Pakistanis and where the definition of ‘Muslim’ itself is continuously shrinking. Rightly or wrongly, for many secular-minded Indians who are concerned about the deteriorating situation of religious minorities in their country, Pakistan stands as a warning of what might be in store for them in the not-too-distant future if they fail to quickly correct their path.
This was originally published in the Herald's April 2015 issue under the headline 'The Muslim question'. To read more subscribe to the Herald in print.
The writer teaches sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Satire: Diary of Asif Ali Zardari
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Divided Memories
LPAC Studio X
Elio Catania (Laboratorio Lapsus)
‘Chilean refugees in Italy. Interpreting difficult heritage through collaborative practices’
Sopra il vostro settembre is a collaborative web-documentary and online archive. It aims to bring to the forefront a host of stories representing the collective memory of those who went through the repression, the resistance, the exile and the return of around one million political refugees in the 17 years of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Drawing on the interviews to Chilean political refugees in Italy, the project examines the complex, divisive and difficult heritage of the 1973 coup, the participation in the resistance and the cultural shock of the exile. It also attempts to outline a new account and to bring to the forefront suppressed voices, especially those dissonant with the received narrative imposed by the Chilean regime during the transition to democracy (1988-91). Sopra il Vostro Settembre is a crowdfunded, public-oriented historical project composed by an 11 episode documentary which was released in various episodes from September 2018 to January 2019; a digital archive with interviews and documents from the personal collections of the interviewees, and a website to connect the refugee community with a wider public. The presentation also explores the role of co-creation and digital technologies in addressing the difficult memorialisation of the infamous “pacto del olvido” (oblivion pact): the post-dictatorial normalisation and ‘taming’ of collective memory, in order to prevent free expression of dissent and avoid public figures being trialled. The strong collaborative approach, focused on the participation of the interviewees in the construction of the narration, is key in enabling a meaningful investigation on the construction of a public memory in the South American country after the military dictatorship, and also in exploring uncharted territories, such as the resistance to the military juntas.
Elio Catania
Researcher/Education Manager
Laboratorio Lapsus
Elio Catania has a bachelor degree in contemporary history from the Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, and is a co-founder of Laboratorio Lapsus, a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of researching contemporary history and promoting a better understanding of it. Started working on Chilean memory refugees in 2017 and published “Sopra il vostro settembre” in 2019.
Dan Ellin (University of Lincoln)
‘Which dot was a firestorm? Visualising data to challenge perceptions of the bombing war 1939-1945 at the International Bomber Command Centre’
The history of Bomber Command is considered difficult heritage, and is frequently reduced to binary narratives of the heroes who destroyed the Eder and Möhne dams, or the villains who destroyed Dresden by firestorm. Rather than being judgmental however, the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) aims to promote recognition, remembrance and reconciliation. Taking an inclusive approach to the heritage of the bombing war, its exhibition is based on material held in its digital archive, and incorporates multiple perspectives and shared experiences – on the ground and in the air, military and civilian, and on both sides of the conflict. The exhibition was designed following the belief that ‘The most effective interpretation is provocative rather than instructional, encouraging audiences to ask questions about what they have learned’ (Locker, 2011. p. 54*). To encourage its visitors to question their understanding of Bomber Command’s campaigns during the Second World War, the RAF’s bombing operations were placed in the context of other strategic bombing campaigns in Europe via a visualisation of data taken from multiple sources. A seven meter screen shows a ten minute projection of the strategic bombing campaigns in Europe 1939 – 1945, and the resulting animated map replaces the more traditional museum timeline in the exhibition. It shows the escalation of the bombing and portrays how widespread it became. The interpretation effectively challenges the popular narrative of blame and retaliation by hiding the attacks on the Dams and Dresden in the visual ‘noise’. This paper discusses how such an interpretation of data can illustrate and/or question abstract concepts of difficult heritage and convey the bigger picture to exhibition visitors, and how visualisations of data can supersede traditional graphic panels of text or still images in museums and exhibitions.
*Locker, P. 2011. Exhibition Design. London: AVA Academia.
Dr Dan Ellin
Archivist, IBCC Digital Archive
Dan Ellin was responsible for the content of the International Bomber Command Centre’s exhibition. He continues to work building an open-access digital archive containing over 1,000 newly created oral history interviews with veterans and survivors of the bombing war, as well as collections of letters, diaries, logbooks and photographs.
Zeno Gaiaschi (Laboratorio Lapsus)
‘Italian internees in Germany. Using technology to explore Italy’s difficulty past’
The fact that Italians had responsibilities in the deportation and internment of tens of thousands of people during WWII still constitutes a problematic legacy. Public discourse struggles to come to terms with the country’s past, and celebrations are too often based on stereotypes and narratives self-insulating from refutation. Education providers hardly tackle this topic, in doing so reinforcing the long-standing myth of “good-natured Italian versus blood-thirsty German”. Even less attention is given to the consequences for today’s society, namely the rise of negationist and revisionist stances. In 2018, Laboratorio Lapsus and ANED (National Association of former Deportees in Nazi camps) have designed and delivered an online training course on deportations and their difficult post-war memorialisation. This partnership has allowed the development of a user friendly, usable tool specifically aimed at under-20s. It combines history lectures in video format, testimonies of survivors, and digitised documents. Within its 38 thematic units, the course examines the complex system of concentration and extermination camps, the planning of mass deportations, the creation of categories of “undesirables” among the population, opportunism and collaboration, as well as the exploitation of the internees subjected to slave labour. The presentation will explore the challenges at the intersection between cultural heritage digitisation, difficult heritage, and compulsory schooling, also highlighting how the course can be a way to engage meaningfully with part of the nation’s heritage that would otherwise be neglected and lost. It will also outline the challenges of the opportunities of a partnership between ANED (with its 70-year-long effort to keep alive the memory of the deportations) and the digital-based, public-oriented approach of Lapsus. Lesson learned can be relevant to other comparable initiatives. The course, to be released in the in the first half of 2019, will be presented for the first time outside Italy.
Zeno Gaiaschi
Project Manager/Researcher
Zeno Gaiaschi, bachelor degree in contemporary history, is a co-founder of Laboatorio Lapsus, a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of researching contemporary history and promote a better understanding of it. Since 2018 Zeno is the project manager about the online training course on nazifasci deportation in Europe.
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Author of Rajesh Khanna’s Biography Gives Special Perspective on Superstar’s Rise and Fall
The rise of Jatin Khanna, better known as Rajesh Khanna, Bollywood’s first superstar who commanded a colossal female fan following, reflected the socio-political changes simmering in India of his time, according to his biographer, Gautam Chintamani, whose book is the starting point for Nikhil Dwivedi’s just-announced biopic.
The 1962 Sino-Indian War, said the author of ‘Dark Star: The Loneliness Of Being Rajesh Khanna’, led to the questioning of the Nehruvian worldview and his version of socialism, and for the first time since Independence, the vote share of the Indian National Congress dipped in the third general election. The rise of the actor mirrored the growing sentiment against the status quo.
In a conversation, Chintamani shared anecdotes from the actor’s life, demystified the enigma that Rajesh Khanna was and spoke about the subsequent dethroning of the actor by Amitabh Bachchan, who continues to be very much a part of India’s showbiz story.
Explaining why he chose Rajesh Khanna as the subject of his book, Chintamani said: “If you think of filmstars or cultural icons such as Rajesh Khanna, then there are very few people whose life warrants to be told like a story. For me, he’s someone who captured the zeitgeist, redefined it and left such a big impression that for generations, film actors have followed that template. That’s what got me interested in Rajesh Khanna.”
Despite his success, the superstar never meddled with the scripts or the director’s vision. “He never forced filmmakers to change their scripts for the purpose of accommodating his stardom,” Chintamani said. “He was a very confident actor.”
Talking about the skills of the superstar, Chintamani underlined two of them. One was the actor’s way around with silences and the other was how he blended seamlessly with the staging, blocking and overall arrangement of a scene.
“An actor’s prowess also comes across in his silences,” Chintamani said, adding: “And if you see some of the best Rajesh Khanna films, he is a part of the whole mise en scene, where he may not have dialogues at times, but his presence is so powerful that you get an idea of what a confident actor he is.”
For all his superstardom, Khanna couldn’t escape a dramatic reversal of fortunes. Khanna had a falling out with the screenwriter duo Salim-Javed, who, just like Khanna, changed the rules of the game (in terms of writing) and played a huge part in the creation of Amitabh Bachchan as a subsequent superstar.
Chintamani explained: “The writing on the wall became clear with the arrival of Amitabh Bachchan as the angry young man in 1973 and the falling out Mr Khanna had with screenwriters Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar combined somewhere. It was very clear that Rajesh Khanna’s romantic films would no longer be the mainstay of the industry. The emergence of Amitabh Bachchan, along with the popularity of Rishi Kapoor as a young hero, all happened at the same time.”
Chintama added: “Between 1973 and 1975 there were films such as ‘Aap Ki Kasam’ and ‘Roti’, which were very big hits, but post 1975, with the success of ‘Deewar’ and ‘Sholay’, the entire scenario changed.”
It is not that Rajesh Khanna did not keep in touch with the changing times. What changed was how the audience perceived him. And it coincided with the rise of a new and brighter star. Bollywood’s first superstar soon found himself being sucked into a black hole.
“He did try to shift gears and keep up with the times, but he was so good in what he did as a romantic hero or a dramatic star that it was difficult for people in the industry to imagine him doing action films. If you see the transition between 1975 and 1980, it was a very difficult phase for Rajesh Khanna,” Chintamani pointed out.
The author concluded by talking about the man behind the superstar. “He was very close to his daughters and he counted that as one of his greatest achievements,” Chintamani recalled. “Although my book doesn’t look at Rajesh Khanna as the family man because it doesn’t focus a lot on that, he was very fond of his grandchildren and children.”
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Donates 25 Houses to Destitute Veterans
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger has donated 25 houses to homeless veterans in Los Angeles, after teaming up with the Village for Vets programme.
Schwarzenegger paid $250,000 to purchase the structures, located in West Los Angeles, according to Fox11, and donated them to those who previously fought in the US armed forces but are now facing homelessness, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The 74-year-old actor tweeted about it.
He wrote: “Today, I celebrated Christmas early. The 25 homes I donated for homeless veterans were installed here in LA. It was fantastic to spend some time with our heroes and welcome them into their new homes.
“I want to thank @villageforvets for arranging the homes and being a fantastic partner, @secvetaffairs, @amvetshq and everyone who worked with us and made this possible. We proved that when we all work together, we can solve any problem.”
One veteran named Bruce Henry Cooper told Fox11 the project had been a “life-saver” for him and other homeless veterans this Christmas.
He added of the ‘Kindergarten Cop’ actor: “He has not forgotten us.”
The Village for Vets project has been working with retired service members who have resorted to living on the streets since 2016, by setting them up with tiny houses that are fully equipped with water, heating, electricity and air conditioning.
Schwarzenegger also told Fox11 in an interview that he considered the joy he felt after his charitable deed to be “the greatest Christmas gift” he could have received.
He said: “It makes me feel good that I can give something back to this country that has given everything to me. I had this great success, only because of America a Whatever I tackled, I achieved because of America, so to me it’s always great to give something back.”
Uttar Pradesh School Kids’ Pledge for ‘Hindu Rashtra’ Rakes Up Controversy
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London’s reputation as one of the world’s major tech hubs is in jeopardy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
At the start of the last decade, a cluster of start-ups began to form around East London’s Old Street roundabout (technically a gyratory system), leading the area to be nicknamed “Silicon Roundabout.”
Then-British Prime Minister David Cameron latched onto their success and branded the area in and around the hipster Shoreditch neighbourhood “Tech City.”
Since then, London’s tech ecosystem has expanded to other corners of the capital including King’s Cross and the West End. Today, tech companies and their employees span the entire city.
Homegrown start-ups like DeepMind, Shazam, Revolut, and TransferWise have become well-known names in their respective industries, while U.S. tech giants including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple have also set up huge new offices for thousands of staff.
But the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to change the landscape.
Given the very nature of their work, tech firms can often embrace remote working far more easily than companies in other industries.
A sprawling mansion in the heart of London which was presented as a marital home to Maharaja Duleep Singh’s son
Glen Coutinho Real Estate
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Review: Silent Hill: Homecoming (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Mark B. | October 17, 2008 | Archive, Video Game Reviews, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Genre: Survival Horror
Developer: Double Helix Games
Publisher: Konami
I used to be a big fan of Silent Hill. I mean, the games play like crap across the board, let’s not kid ourselves, but they’ve often been absolutely fantastic at basically giving players the ability to play through an exceptionally horrific and surreal story and world, almost as if someone jumped into my head and found out that what I REALLY wanted was to spend my time playing a game based off of Jacob’s Ladder (memo to any game developers out there looking for the next big horror property: PLEASE DON’T MAKE THIS, IT WOULD BE BAD). So, we get games that generally play badly, but are often so easy to make it through that it doesn’t matter, because often, all we REALLY want is to pick our way through the storyline, and the gameplay is secondary to that desire.
And then, somewhere in there, we got Silent Hill Origins, a game that didn’t particularly play well, wasn’t a lot of fun, and generally didn’t do a lot of the things the prior games had done. Now, players can point at the third game and note that it wasn’t as impressive as the second, or they can point at the fourth game and note that for a game called Silent Hill, it really didn’t have as much to do with the titular town as one might expect, but make no mistake: Silent Hill Origins was basically the point where the franchise basically put off a lot of players. Whether or not the story was good wasn’t the issue; rather, the issue was that many gamers who had no difficulty progressing in the prior four games simply COULD NOT fight their way through the game, which was somehow worse than the four preceding it on a gameplay front. But, hey, fine, it’s only one game, right? Konami just made a mistake handing off the game to Climax, right? Well, by all indications, Konami simply has no interest in developing the franchise anymore (which, in the case of Konami, wouldn’t be the first time; see also the PS1 Contra games for another big example of this practice at work), as they handed off the newest game, originally titled Silent Hill 5, to what was formerly known as The Collective but has since become Double Helix Games, so said because the company is a merger of The Collective (who are best known for the first Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mark Ecko’s Getting Up) and Shiny (who is best known for Earthworm Jim and a bunch of games that either nobody played or nobody liked). Surprisingly, it’s a better game than Silent Hill Origins. Unsurprisingly, it’s still not what Silent Hill fans were really expecting.
The story of Silent Hill: Homecoming follows one Alex Shepherd, a young man who has just returned home from the Army to the sleepy little town of Shepherd’s Glen. It seems that his hometown has been having significant problems in his absence, and that he’s apparently been having some terrible nightmares on top of it. Upon returning home, Alex finds out that his brother, Josh, has gone missing, and since Alex’s bad dreams concern his brother, he sets out to look for Josh, both to save his brother and to hopefully understand what’s going on with his town, which just happens to border Toluca Lake, which Silent Hill fans will realize pretty fast is the same lake that borders the town of Silent Hill. So, as you might expect, it’s not long before Alex ends up poking around in both his own town and the town of Silent Hill, looking for answers that won’t come easy to questions he probably shouldn’t be asking. In general, the story comes off okay, and a lot of the plot developments and concepts presented in the story work well enough that the player can understand them and fit them into the mythology of the series easily enough. I mean, hey, it makes sense that an evil town wouldn’t be content to just remain evil to its own townspeople, so why wouldn’t it expand its influence to other towns in the surrounding area, right?
That said, there are two significant plot hiccups, and both of them can be attributed to adaptation decay. The first significant problem is that the town of Silent Hill, being a malicious entity as it is, was never a RANDOM malicious entity, and the fact that it seems to be acting as such in this game is bizarre. In the first and third games, and in Origins, the town largely restricted its activities to terrorizing those who had some sort of influence on the birth of Samael, while the second game focused on the town tormenting people who seemed to deserve it and the fourth game was based around the town empowering a malicious entity to do bad things. Again, all of these specific acts had some sort of purpose to them, a method to their madness if you will, but this is the first game where the town simply seemed to want to torment EVERYONE, and the fact that something like half of the town has gone missing indicates that Silent Hill has apparently decided to say “The hell with it” and menace anyone it can get around to menacing. Now, the game DOES try to make sense of it to a point, what with making sacrifices to demons and whatnot, and that’s… fine, but it isn’t really Silent Hill as players know it, and while the franchise certainly has a malleable plot, there’s a difference between shaping a concept and completely re-writing it to suit your needs, and the latter is on display here. The other problem is with Alex himself, in that the writer was trying really hard to basically model Alex after James Sunderland (which is arguably an accusation one can lay at the feet of Travis Grady as well). Now, again, many people consider Silent Hill 2 to be the best game in the series, so it makes sense that if one were given the reigns to the franchise, one would want to make a tortured protagonist like Sunderland, since that’s part of the appeal of the game in the first place, but Alex Shepherd fails in one basic respect: much like Travis Grady, and completely unlike James Sunderland, Alex’s plot twist in the game revolves around what is wrong with him, not what he has done wrong. James’ plot revelation made him a complex character, and was (at the time) shocking, because it was something we could empathize with because he tortured himself over it (hence finding his way to Silent Hill in the first place); Alex’s plot revelation simply makes him look like a sad, pathetic man, and doesn’t make us empathize with him so much as pity him, which isn’t even remotely close to the same thing. It isn’t so much that Alex is even a bad character as it is that he’s not a terribly compelling one, and in a franchise that lives and dies, in large part, by its writing, this is not a good start.
Visually, Homecoming looks quite good; the character models are generally interesting, both for humans and monsters, and are well animated across the board. The monsters are appropriately disgusting and horrific, as we’ve come to expect from the franchise, though the human characters, while nice looking, don’t look entirely right (partly because they don’t look as, well, sickly as characters in past games, and partly because their faces look odd at certain times). The towns of Shepherds Glen and Silent Hill both look appropriately disheveled and hard luck, and the mirror versions look as rotted and bleak as ever, though the game has an odd tendency to repeat random decorative items for no apparent reason (why is there laundry in the hidden room in Alex’s house, for instance). Aurally, the game is spot-on: the voice acting is pretty much strong across the board and the various sound effects and environmental audio snippets are as good as one could possibly imagine them to be, which once again brings the experience to life. Best of all, however, is that Akira Yamaoka has once again contributed the score for Homecoming, as he has for the prior franchise titles, and once again, it is EASILY the very best thing about the entire game.
The Silent Hill franchise has certainly never been known for its gameplay, so it might be a little astonishing to know that the gameplay in Homecoming is surprisingly good. Movement and looking around are assigned to the left and right sticks, respectively, and Alex can search his environment, look through his weapon and item inventories and check his map at the press of a button. Holding the left trigger enters into combat mode, and its here that the game goes into completely new territory. For one thing, Alex has two melee attacks, one light and one heavy, which you can use in succession to create combos. You can also hold the heavy attack down to charge up an attack, which will deal significant damage to an enemy if it lands. For another thing, Alex can now dodge, dive, and weave into and out of battles at the press of a button, meaning he can dodge and counter enemy attacks, dive out of the way or assaults, and dip into and out of an enemy’s attack range, making combat more involved and more controllable than in prior games. For a third, while gun combat is still set up as normal control-wise, you can now aim at the enemies, which allows you to target specific parts of their anatomy, giving you further control over your ranged battles than ever before in the Silent Hill franchise. In short: combat is no longer a sloppy mess, and fighting monsters is now a streamlined, easy-to-control affair. This is good, because monsters are now more resilient to damage and are more complex to fight than ever before. Even early in the game, some monsters can take several hits to kill, making combat a fairly more involved part of your experience that can also involve the expected Active Time Events we’ve come to expect from games today. Boss monsters are also significantly more involved than they were in prior games; in earlier titles most bosses could simply be killed by hitting them a lot, but in Homecoming you’ll see more than a few situations where pattern recognition and careful attacking/dodging will be more vital than any amount of damage you can do. The combat and control mechanics feel more like something from Resident Evil 4 than prior franchise titles, which is by no means a bad thing (as RE4 played fine), but it will take some adjusting for fans of the prior games to get used to.
Aside from the combat, most of the rest of the game will feel like old hat to veterans of the series. Puzzle solving is back and as interesting as ever, with most puzzles either involving fetch quests, actual puzzle solving, or a combination of the two, so fans should be able to acclimate to this easily enough. You still have your flashlight and radio, as always, with the former lighting up darkened hallways (but also making you a visible target to monsters) and the latter making noise to indicate when monsters are in your vicinity; using both to your advantage will be crucial, as always, and fans and newcomers alike will find this to be a tricky proposition, as always. In another interesting twist, however, environmental navigation has changed in two ways. For one, you will now frequently come across obstacles that cannot be passed by conventional means, and will often require you to bypass them by using one of your weapons, IE cutting open a sheet with your knife, hacking open wooden barriers with an axe, and so on. These not only serve as puzzling deterrents, but also serve to show you areas you cannot yet access, giving you reason to return to locations later, when you have the needed items to open the locations you’ve missed. Further, while in prior games you would often load from one section to the next by opening doors (which would mean escaping monsters by loading into a new area), in Homecoming most areas are massive and feature no loading… meaning going into a room may not save you if the monster you’re running from follows you in, which makes running a more risky proposition than it ever was. Again, these are simple changes, but they help to make the experience more tense and harrowing than ever.
Other little things make the game interesting and/or worth playing through, perhaps more than once, for fans of survival horror and Silent Hill alike. Little details, like Alex turning his head to look at interesting things, Alex keeping a journal that contains all sorts of useful and interesting data, and branching conversation paths with NPC’s make the game more interesting than it might seem at first glance. Your first playthrough will take about eight to ten hours, give or take, and will provide you with all sorts of interesting secrets to unlock and use (including upgraded weapons and such) which can also influence you to undertake a second playthrough, especially if you missed something cool the first time around. There are also a whopping FIVE endings, a bunch of unlockable costumes, and a couple neat weapons (including an old favorite) to unlock, and a bunch of Achievements to, uh, achieve, if you’re down for that sort of thing. You’ll have plenty of reason to replay Homecoming if you enjoyed the first go-round, and it’s good to see that this staple of the franchise has carried over to this most recent game.
However, even with the retained bonuses and upgraded combat mechanics, Homecoming still isn’t quite all it wants to be. The biggest problem is that the combat system, while fabulous in theory, isn’t so great in practice. Silent Hill has never been a game that focuses on combat primarily, and making a new game in the franchise where the combat is involved and relatively detailed was probably not the ideal direction to head in, but every franchise can certainly change to meet demands. The combat in Homecoming, however, is often frustrating and unenjoyable; even if you can appropriately master the mechanics and work with them effectively, fighting monsters is often a tedious process, because many monsters early in the game can take as many as ten or fifteen good, solid whacks to go down, or can block your attacks entirely. Aside from the tedious nature of spending several minutes fighting one monster, this sort of significant change to the combat is going to put off gamers who enjoyed the relative ease of the prior titles; it’s nice that a complex play mechanic has been installed, but many Silent Hill fans were casual gamers with limited skills who enjoyed the story and were fine with the game being easy to play, and with the change to a complex control mechanic, a lot of people are going to be left out in the cold. Further, running from battle is now a significant hassle, both because of the frequency of enemy appearances and the fact that most of the game takes place in cramped locations. As such, there will be many instances where you will HAVE to fight an enemy in front of you because you can’t squeeze past them, and again, this makes things more annoying than anything else. This is doubly depressing when one notes that there is no adjustable difficulty for the puzzles, something many Silent Hill games offered; as such, if you were the sort of person who enjoyed easy combat and brain-busting puzzles, you’re out of luck here.
Beyond that, however, there are other little annoyances to the game that pop up here and there. It’s interesting that the game has added in the “you need this weapon to move through this obstacle” mechanic from Condemned, but it seems stupid that you can’t simply interface with the obstacle and instead have to go to your inventory, equip the needed weapon, interface with the obstacle, then go back to your inventory and change to your original weapon in order to proceed. Also, it seems silly to have a tarp block the way through a location. It’s a TARP, kick it or something and it’ll give way eventually. Further, there are oddities here and there that disrupt the flow of the experience; aside from the Active Time Events (which, of all the franchises in the world that needed these, Silent Hill was ABSOLUTELY not one of them) and their disruptive and annoying nature, there are also occasional scenarios where tiny enemies come after you that can be killed in one hit, but are incredibly annoying to deal with, and these scenarios are all too frequent and all too annoying.
The bottom line is that Silent Hill: Homecoming is a perfectly fine game, though it’s not really a perfectly fine Silent Hill game, and people expecting the latter might well be put off by the fact that this isn’t what they were expecting at all. The game is presented well, plays perfectly fine, offers plenty of replay value, and is more or less a solid survival horror experience that fans of the genre will want to check out. Silent Hill fans, however, may be put off by the free and easy re-imagining of the franchise storyline, the heavy focus on combat over puzzle solving and storytelling, the difficulty of the combat, and the odd mechanical issues and Active Time Events. It’s not that the game is bad at all; it isn’t, and if you’re looking for a fun, solid horror game, Homecoming isn’t bad… but it really isn’t Silent Hill, and for fans, that’s probably going to be something of a significant problem.
The Scores:
Story: MEDIOCRE
Graphics: GOOD
Sound: UNPARALLELED
Control/Gameplay: GOOD
Balance: ABOVE AVERAGE
Originality: ABOVE AVERAGE
Addictiveness: ABOVE AVERAGE
Appeal: MEDIOCRE
Miscellaneous: ABOVE AVERAGE
Final Score: ENJOYABLE GAME.
Short Attention Span Summary:
Silent Hill: Homecoming is a solid attempt at trying to replicate the appeal of the franchise by a new developer, but while it’s generally a solid game, it’s not a game Silent Hill fans are going to be entirely thrilled about. The visual and aural presentation is solid, the gameplay is significantly stronger than it’s ever been, and there’s plenty of atmosphere and extras in the game to keep players interested for at least one, if not multiple, play sessions. However, the storyline doesn’t really work as well as it could in comparison to other games in the franchise, and the focus on (and increase of difficulty of) combat, smattering of Active Time Events, and downplaying of puzzle elements make the game feel less like Silent Hill and more like Resident Evil 4, which really doesn’t work properly with the atmosphere the games have cultivated. As a game it’s perfectly fine, but as an experience it’s not what fans have come to expect, and may well be something to rent before purchasing outright.
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Mark B. is the Senior Editor at Diehard GameFAN, mostly because he’s been on staff for a decade. He has previously written for 411Games, InsidePulse Games, Not a True Ending, Retrograding and Beyond the Threshold, and he maintains multiple infrequent columns, as well as a Hitbox stream on Saturdays. You can check out his archives and non-game related work over at markbwriting.com, and follow him on Twitter at MarkBWriting or Facebook at MarkBWriting. (Special thanks to J. Rose for the artwork.)
J. October 17, 2008 Reply
Pretty fair-handed review. You seemed to have reached the same conclusion that I did, one that is hard to put into words exactly what is wrong with it. “Fine” fits the game as a whole, but it just feels lacking. I’d still suggest it to Silent Hill and survival horror fans, but just don’t get your hopes up for another SH2.
Mark B. October 17, 2008 Reply
Thanks. I didn’t really get the Silent Hill vibe from it, personally, as it felt more like RE4 than Silent Hill, but, yeah, different things to different folks.
Yeah, agreed, and that’s in no way to dispariage RE4. It just wasn’t a Resident Evil game. I can understand wanting to move away from the old tank controls, but trying to cash-in on RE4’s success rather than trying something new is a bit lazy and insulting to fans.
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Villa 5 on Lake Como
This charming Villa is a complex of buildings and gardens, rich in history, built between 1400 and 1800. It was the property of the different noble families till the year 1980 when it was purchased by public organization of Varenna for public use. Mainly the villa is owned by the Municipality of Varenna.
The Villa is situated in a charming spot on the shores of the lake of Como.
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The Villa, an ex- princely mansion, was built in the XVI century as a summer residence for Cardinal Tolommeo Gaul in the town of Cernobbio. The Villa is one of the most beautiful architectural works of the XVI century and the model of garden art. Surrounded by a private park of 10 hectares, the villa buried in the wonderful flavors and colors at all times of the year. Uncountable variety of plants transformed park at the Botanical Garden: magnolias, wisteria, laurels, jasmine, camellias, hydrangeas, and among them - stone oaks, chestnuts, palm trees, cypresses.
The Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni is one of the oldest and most elegant hotels in the Lake Como area and the only 5 star de-luxe hotel in Bellagio. It is immersed in one of the most beautiful panoramas in the world.
Set in the splendid surroundings of Lake Como, where the blue waters meet the green mountains which soar above the lake, the Villa Serbelloni enjoys a breathtaking position on the promontory which juts halfway out into the lake, separating the two branches.
In the town of Tremezzo, in a corner of rare beauty, the Villa Carlotta is placed.
The building of the villa was made in 1600 for the Marquis Giorgio Clerici. The building was surrounded by magnificent gardens in the romantic Italian style, stretching up to 70 thousand square meters, with stairs going down right to the water.
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The Advantages of Being “Out at Work”
In 1995, at a time when there were very little to no legal protections whatsoever for LGBT employees, studies were being conducted clearly demonstrating the benefits of coming out in the workplace far outweighed the benefits of staying the closet. For example, people who come out in the workplace tend to rank higher in social well-being and psychological adjustment.
More recently, the Harvard Business Review reported that 85% of Fortune 500 companies have protective policies that address sexual orientation—up from 51% in 2000. In addition, most states have enacted legislation to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their employment discrimination laws. However, there is currently no federal law that protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination. As a result, many companies have taken measures into their own hands by enacting workplace non-discrimination policies aimed at protecting the rights of their LGBT workers. Yet despite such measures, about half of the college-educated gay and lesbian workforce remains “closeted” at work, according to the recent findings of the Center for Work-Life Policy. With an abundance of anti-discrimination workplace policies in place, why does the current LGBT workforce remain reluctant to “come out” at work?
Fear is one possible explanation. “Coming out” is never easy, but the workplace can provide added stress, especially when it is impossible to determine how co-workers or managers will react to such news. The isolation of closeted LGBT employees has the potential to hinder workplace performance by disallowing LGBT workers to fully immerse themselves into their jobs. As a result, LGBT employees often report being dissatisfied with their place of employment. The aforementioned study by the Center for Work-Life Policy revealed that 73% of closeted employees are likely to change jobs in the next three years. Although isolation and job dissatisfaction are the potential downsides of remaining closeted at work, the decision of LGBT workers to come out is not as straightforward as it may seem.
Another possible explanation for the reluctance of LGBT employees to come out at work is the lack of enforcement of workplace policies. Although many companies have non-discrimination policies on the books, many critics believe some corporations are simply interested in the appearance of equality, but do nothing to actually integrate these policies into the workplace. What more can companies do? Brian McNaught, author of a CNN article titled “Why gays should come out at work”, suggests corporations have to get their “music” in sync with their “words.” Until the actions and attitudes of managers and co-workers line up with the company’s stated policies, LGBT employees will continue stay in the closet at work.
With all that said, for decades studies have shown that “coming out” at work may be a positive career move for LGBT employees. Not only does being open at work have the ability to improve job performance, it also has the ability to increase overall job satisfaction. How? LGBT employees who choose to completely separate their home life from their work life are more likely to feel isolated at work. The Harvard Business Review reported some 42% of closeted employees said they felt isolated, versus only 24% of openly LGBT employees. The difference – open LGBT workers engage in collegial banter with colleagues, oftentimes discussing personal relationships and weekend plans, an act which helps to develop and foster workplace relationships.
Coming out at work is a heavy decision and the choice may not be for everyone. LGBT workers, however, should be aware of the benefit associated with being open at work. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) website provides information for deciding whether or not to come out at work, which includes researching the company’s non-discrimination policy and assessing the workplace atmosphere, and provides practical tips for moving forward such as identifying and talking to a fellow LGBT or LGBT-supportive colleague or simply placing a picture of your partner on your desk. Furthermore, Lambda Legal provides a helpful tool kit for workplace equality which acts to inform LGBT employees about their workplace rights so that they may feel more comfortable and secure in their jobs.
**Angela D. Giampolo, Principal of Giampolo Law Group maintains offices in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey and specializes in LGBT Law, Business Law, Real Estate Law and Civil Rights. Her website is HYPERLINK “http://www.giampololaw.com” www.giampololaw.com and she maintains two blogs: HYPERLINK “http://www.phillygaylawer.com” www.phillygaylawer.com and HYPERLINK “http://www.lifeinhouse.com” www.lifeinhouse.com. Please feel free to send Angela your legal questions at HYPERLINK “mailto:angela@giampololaw.com” angela@giampololaw.com.
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David Washington Pipes
Washington Battery, Field Artillery, Louisiana
David Washington Pipes was born in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana on February 20, 1845. He was the son of David Pipes of Beech Grove Plantation and the grandson of Windsor Pipes who first settled in Louisiana in 1781. David attended Oakland College in Mississippi, was primarily a cotton planter and was also active in banking and business in his parish. He was active in politics and served in both the State House of Representatives and the State Senate from his district. He enlisted in the 4th Company, Washington Battery from Clinton, Louisiana on February 23, 1863 at the age of 18. His unit was at Gettysburg and I have recently obtained a copy of a letter that David W. wrote in November of 1928. This letter was written to a Mr. Reily and the first three paragraphs speak of business items, but the rest of the letter describes some of his involvement at Gettysburg. I have included that portion of the letter here, just as it was written. David passed away in 1939 and was said to be the last surviving soldier of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was twice married and fathered eight children, one of whom, Henry Alexander, was a graduate of West Point. David Washington Pipes is the brother of William Henry Pipes who served as an officer in the 15th Tennessee infantry. David Washington Pipes
Excerpt from a letter written by David Washington Pipes in 1928:
"A few things did happen in the Civil War, which I cannot forget, one especially was Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, this charge was made through our Battalion, the Battalion of Washington Artillery of five companies, one in the army of Tennessee and four in Lee's army. We had sixteen pieces, each piece had twelve horses and one caison or ammunition wagon. We were all on the battle field on the 3rd of July 1863 and the third company fired the cannon that opened the fight at three PM in the evening. There were 500 pieces of artillery making music at the same time and carrying death and destruction with it, and the noise made could be heard for 80 miles. My caison was blown up and my piece was disabled, a piece of shell striking it in the muzzle, and nine of our twelve horses were killed or wounded. We were ordered to form a new line of defense when Pickett's troups were replused and we did so carrying our piece with three horses with us. This new line was formed about five-thirty. We recruited another piece of artillery and impressed 1/2 dozen Pennsylvania Connestogas, horses, untrained and as bigas half grown elephants. We were then ordered to Williamsport to protect Lee's ammunition train. All night long through the mud and rain for it rained all night, all of next day and night, and reached Williamsport at day light, the men all dead on their feet. At sun up, before we had any time to cook a bite, we were ordered into action and fought until 8:30 P.M. when we drove Kilpatrick with 5,000 calvary from the field; we had only 3,000 and a good many were wounded, but fighting. The Potomac River had to be crossed. We waded across it going to Pennsylvania, but now it was swollen and a pontoon bridge, made of small boats and weather boarding from the houses for flooring, was what we had to cross the river on. Eleven of us boys had removed our shoes (so called) and climbed on the Pier. Captain Buck Miller was director. The horses had to go some forty feet into the water before we reached the abutment of the bridge. By bad handling the horses had gone to the side of the bridge instead of to the end. I knew they could not pull us and the pier on the bridge on the side, and I said to Captain Miller: "Captain, I think if you will have the horses turned and approach the bridge from the end of the bridge, we will have no difficulty in going over." The Captain looked at me very savagely and said, "You think - dam you what right have you to think - get off of that pier every one of you and by hand to front", which being interpreted, means get hold of the pier and put it on the bridge, and this we finally did. The water was waist deep, and we were all wet again. That night I was put on guard at nine o'clock, two hours on, four off, cannon was loaded and I was ordered to fire if any noise was heard in my front, death penalty for sleeping on post. I heard no noise, slept in rain for two hours. Officer woke me up and said, "You were asleep on your post sir," and I said, "Yes Sir, asleep on my post." That was the end of it."
A newspaper article written to commemorate his 94th birthday quotes him as saying about the battle of Gettysburg: " All through the war he remained under Captain Albert Norcomb of the Fourth company. He was in the Battle of Gettysburg, served at the Peach Orchard of that field. He tells how he worked at his gun 'swabbing and loading' over and over again in the bloody hell of that conflict" [This refers to the third day when the Washington Artillery was involved in the hours long cannonade that preceded Picket's charge. Some accounts indicate that his company opened the shelling with the first shot.]
[ There are other written memoirs by David about his Civil War experiences and they are on the front page where they can be requested. Many thanks go to Bertha Dooling for sending me a copy of this insightful letter and to Glenny Warzewski for the copies of the newspaper articles]
Some interesting photos:
A picture of a small group of Washington Artillery men.
A picture of B. F. Eshelman who commanded the Washinton Artillery
A Picture of William Miller Owen. He was an officer in the 4th Company and wrote a book of their adventures.
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Suzanne Farrell
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Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an eminent 20th century ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
She was born as Roberta Sue Ficker in Cincinnati, and received her early training at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. In 1961, she was selected to study at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet with a Ford Foundation scholarship; she started there in 1960, and joined the New York City Ballet (NYCB) in 1961.
Early career at NYCB
Initially part of the corps de ballet at NYCB, Farrell soon moved on to dancing featured roles. The first roles created especially for her came in 1963, and in 1965 she was promoted to principal dancer. George Balanchine quickly fell in love with his "alabaster princess", and created many roles for her. Farrell described learning choreography from Balanchine as a collaborative process, saying, "When Mr. B was working on a ballet, something would just spill out of his body; he could rarely duplicate it, so I tried to see precisely what he wanted the first time." Fragos, Emily. , BOMB Magazine, Fall 2003. Retrieved 20 July 2011. In 1965 he created Don Quixote, thought to be a valentine to his newest "muse." In 1968 he cast her as the lead in the "Diamonds" section of his three-act plotless ballet "Jewels".
Balanchine was married to the polio-stricken former ballerina Tanaquil LeClerq,...
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NEWMAN & COMPANY
It can be lonely at the top. Many CEOs/Presidents, especially in small- and medium-sized companies, struggle to find a trusted advisor who has the broad business knowledge, experience and perspectives that their senior management teams need:
- A confidential advisor they can bounce ideas off of and use for sanity checks;
- A skilled communicator and negotiator who can participate effectively at critical meetings with staff, vendors, customers or potential partners;
- An experienced resource to consult with when new opportunities surface that their management team has little or no background evaluating;
- A strong analyst who understands how to assess potential risks and returns and present clear options for moving forward.
That’s the Management Advisory portion of Newman & Company’s practice. The goal isn’t a one-size-fits-all, standardized approach – it’s informed counsel based on proven business and strategy principles and a deep understanding of the client organization’s specific underlying strengths, weaknesses and capabilities.
Across Newman & Company’s advisory relationships, the common thread is rapid growth in an industrial or technology market and client leadership that values an experienced, outside perspective. The range of issues typically addressed with clients is broad, often including:
- product-line, marketing and pricing strategies
- manufacturing and control improvements
- organizational planning and senior-level candidate evaluation
- financial/cash management questions
- acquisition analyses
- longer-term planning evaluations
REPRESENTATIVE NEWMAN & COMPANY RELATIONSHIPS
- Extraordinary Growth in Specialty Pharmaceutical Packaging. As an advisor to the President, evaluated potential acquisition candidates resulting in the purchase of a $3 million seafood-packaging company. Helped define the new organization and hire the management team. Over the next several years, participated in the assessment of numerous marketing, product-line and distribution opportunities which resulted in a new strategic direction and market focus on the pharmaceutical packaging industry and the introduction of innovative product lines. Rapid growth created the need for additional facilities. Assisted in the analysis and selection of a new plant locally, two additional domestic plants to expand manufacturing and distribution throughout the U.S., a European licensing arrangement to establish manufacturing overseas, and distribution agreements in other international markets. Sales at this 20-year client continue to grow rapidly and are approaching $100 million.
- Private Equity Operational Due Diligence. Have conducted 15 operational due diligence assessments of potential portfolio acquisitions for a major, middle-market private equity firm. These evaluations include an overview of current operating capabilities and potential benefits from the implementation of an aggressive continuous-improvement program. Typical findings include potential expense savings, asset reductions, production bottlenecks and anticipated capital requirements, gaps in manufacturing support systems and organizational issues.
- Launch of an Innovative Composite Pilings Company. Advised the President during the launch of a new division focused on composite pilings for marine and construction applications. Subsequently worked with the management team on marketing initiatives and priorities, distribution channel options, competitive pricing models, etc. Developed the valuation methodology and assisted in negotiations that resulted in the President subsequently purchasing the business. Assisted in the selection and layout of a new facility. This 15-year relationship with the President continues with ongoing work on marketing and growth opportunities.
- Project Prioritization at a Carbon-Fiber Engineering and Manufacturing Shop. The founder of an innovative carbon-fiber design and fabrication shop needed help prioritizing marketing opportunities and managing growth. Over the past 10 years, worked with the management team to define the most attractive longer-term business opportunities, restructure the bidding/estimating process, develop an organizational plan, and improve shop-floor management practices and controls. Assisted the President in evaluating and purchasing a new manufacturing facility. Company is now achieving extraordinary growth in its targeted markets.
- Organic Growth at a Fiberglass Specialty Products Manufacturer. Advised the management team on a broad range of strategic, investment and operational improvement issues. These included evaluation and implementation of major equipment additions and upgrades, an aggressive program to eliminate late shipments, a significant reduction in WIP and finished goods inventories, and appropriate tracking metrics. Helped on the evaluation and due diligence of an acquisition candidate and the justification for and layout of a second fabrication facility to handle new product lines. Participated in the identification, interviewing and selection of key members of senior management team. Joined the Board of Directors in 2013.
- Manufacturing Rationalization of Oilfield Valves. As this private-equity portfolio company was assembled through the acquisition of 6 separate companies, numerous overlaps in product lines were identified. The management of the $100 million valve division required assistance in structuring and evaluating manufacturing rationalization options. The analysis resulted in the closure of one of four facilities and shifting of numerous product lines to better focus the remaining plants. The expense and asset reductions were significant.
- Growth and Merger of an Injection Molding and Rapid Prototyping Client. The President of a stagnant $3 million tooling business needed to generate growth. Assisted in the evaluation and decision to start up an innovative rapid prototyping facility which became the largest service center in New England. Participated in numerous conversations with potential acquirees, acquirors and other prospective partners. After the business had grown to $25 million, served as a member of the team conducting prolonged, successful merger negotiations with a similarly-sized, Midwest molding company. Continued advising the combined $50+ million company as both a consultant and member of the Board of Directors until the company was sold.
- Rapid Expansion of a Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal. The President of a $200 million LNG terminal needed help upgrading the facility’s operating capabilities to handle a planned expansion to $500 million in revenues over two years. Key improvement metrics in operations, logistics, utilities and support inventories were identified. Served as the facilitator for a series of cross-functional teams that achieved dramatic improvements, enabling the Company to meet its objective of tripling the number of annual cargoes received at the terminal.
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Simone Ferretti: Becoming a change-maker in the creative and digital industries
Simone Ferretti, becomes a professional photographer, social media expert
As a youngster, he has shown his brilliance as a professional video/photographer, social media expert, and coach.
A few years ago, when experts hinted at the massive growth of the digital world, only a few individuals took it seriously. However, it has today become our reality, and more and more people, brands, and businesses have capitalized on the digital wave to survive and thrive in their respective industries. “This was the need of the hour,” says one such extremely passionate talent named Simone Ferretti, a young man who has excelled beyond boundaries with his creative thinking abilities and his technical knowledge in videography, photography, and social media.
Simone Ferretti is an Italian content creator and a creative soul when it comes to capturing the right moments and expressing emotions through the lenses as a video/photographer. His effortless transition into becoming a coach today proves the resilience and sheer talent of the 25-year-old. Simone Ferretti started focusing on his creativity at 19 years of age when others were still deciding about their careers. He began his journey as a model and came second in the nationally famous “Mister Italy” beauty competition. However, Simone knew he was meant for more in life, hence he kept pursuing his dreams. In 2017, he moved to Hong Kong to keep working as a model and as a personal trainer in a fitness centre.
While In Hong Kong, he fell in love with videography and photography and decided to share his talents on various social media, which have constantly grown since then. Gradually, he began to create video commercials to promote products and services of external businesses, which further increased his stocks in the industry. Today, this man is more than what meets the eye. He has also turned into a social media expert and content creator: he helps brands reaching exponential visibility, presence, and reach on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. So far, he has worked with top-notch brands like Xiaomi, Mercedes-Benz, and many others.
Given his deep passion for photography, Simone Ferretti also teaches online classes where he shares all the tips and tricks behind the photography and social media world. In 2019, he moved to London to study business and, since then, worked towards scaling his social media presence through his photography and social media tutorials on TikTok and Instagram.
The kind of recognition and name he has earned for himself can be proved by the massive fan following he enjoys across his social media handles. Do follow him on Instagram @sferro21 to know more.
Contact Person: Simone Ferretti
Website: https://www.simoneferretti.net/
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Genre: History (x)
Time period: British Colonial History (x)
Places of publication: Charleston, SC (x)
South Carolina -- History (1)
South Carolina--Description and travel. (1)
William Gilmore Simms (2)
Southern Teachers (1)
The Youth of South Carolina (1)
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The Geography of South Carolina
British Colonial History | History | Babcock & Co. | 1843
The Geography of South Carolina, written as a companion piece for the 1842 edition of The History of South Carolina, was published by Babcock & Co. in 1843. Simms conceived of The History and The Geography as parts of a single project and initially desired the two books to be published together in one volume.[1] Sean R. Busick notes that such a publication was cost-prohibitive; thus, The History and The Geography were published separately.[2] In the preface to The Geography, Simms suggests another reason for their separate publication: by breaking up his subject ...
The History of South Carolina, From Its First European Discovery to Its Erection into a Republic
British Colonial History | History | S. Babcock & Co. | 1840
Believing it “necessary to the public man, as to the pupil,” Simms undertook The History of South Carolina explicitly for the education of the state’s young people, so as to tell them the vibrant history of the state and the distinguished accomplishments of her leaders.[1] There is evidence to suggest that Simms was particularly motivated to write such a history in order to provide an historical account of South Carolina and notable South Carolinians, to his eldest child Augusta, who was attending boarding school in Massachusetts in the late 1830s.[2] Simms seemingly ...
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bohemian rhapsody oscar nominations
In light of the nominations, it stands to earn even more as 20th Century Fox, New Regency and GK Films roll out a special sing-along version of the Queen film in locations across the U.S. and Canada. Credit: Bohemian Rhapsody continues to ride high on box office success and awards season glory. The 91st Annual Academy Awards will air live on Sunday, February 24 on ABC. Rami Malek has had quite the awards season run with his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” But now, with the film landing five Oscar nominations including one … The 37-year-old actor was living his dream as he accepted the award for his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody but now it’s back to work for the star. Interview: How 'Bohemian Rhapsody' sound team put moviegoers inside the … The film depicting the life of Freddie Mercury and the creation of legendary band Queen picked up best sound mixing, sound editing, and film editing, while Rami Malek … Olivia Colman has been given a nod within the Greatest Actress class for her function in The Favorite whereas her […] It won four out of five of those awards. Alex Bailey/Fox. Still, Singer thanked the Globes after the movie took home best drama motion picture on Sunday night. Malek won Best Actor at the 2016 Emmys and Critics’ Choice Awards, in addition to receiving back-to-back nominations at the Golden Globes (2016-17).”Bohemian Rhapsody… Queen biopic BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY was a champion last night, taking home four Oscars, the most wins at the 91st Academy Awards. Features. Bohemian RhapsodyDirected by: Bryan SingerTotal nominations: 5Starring: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Producer Graham King knew the only way he could make a Queen biopic was to get the blessing of the band itself (specifically, members Brian May and Roger Taylor). 20th Century Fox “ Bohemian Rhapsody ” will earn four Oscar nominations on Tuesday (Jan. 22). Best Picture. Reblog. "Bohemian Rhapsody" won four awards at this year's Oscars hosted at LA's Dolby Theatre on Sunday. The winners will be revealed at this year’s ceremony on Sunday, 24 February, starting at 8PM ET. Bohemian Rhapsody earned five Oscar nominations Monday, but can the Queen biopic shock the Academy Awards like it did at the Golden Globes? 'Black Panther,' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' score multiple Oscar nominations Danai Gurira, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, and Florence Kasumba in 'Black Panther.' Introducing ... PEOPLE's Products Worth the Hype. Get the latest updates, photos and videos for the 91st Academy Awards. Queen biopic BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY was a champion last night, taking home four Oscars, the most wins at the 91st Academy Awards. The movie had to overcome quite a bit of controversy during production. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Oscar Nominations 2019: Bohemian Rhapsody Up for Best Picture, Rami Malek for Best Actor Also nominated: Bradley Cooper, Willem Defoe, Viggo Mortensen, Christian Bale By Noah Yo o The Favourite and Roma both have 10 nominations each. “Bohemian Rhapsody” has been removed as a best original film nominee at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards, following new accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against director Bryan Singer. This morning the Oscar nominations revealed the movie was up for Best Picture and Best Actor for Rami Malek. On Feb. 24, winners will be crowned at the 91st Academy Awards. Posted on 2019-01-22. Both movies are nominated … How ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’s’ nominations explain the people-pleasing Oscars This biographical film about the British rock band Queen focuses on … RELATED: How Rami Malek Transformed Into Freddie Mercury for Bohemian Rhapsody. Bohemian Rhapsody is nominated for Best Picture for Oscars 2019. Please review our Terms of Use which changed in the United States and Canada on 04/14/20. American actor Rami Malek has received 14 awards from 46 nominations. News ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘A Star Is Born’ Among The Nominees For The 2019 Oscars. Share. Here are all 70 puppies competing in Puppy Bowl XVII, The best books to keep you warm this January, How Rami Malek became Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic. Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. “It was a challenging task to take someone’s life and form that into a two-hour and 15-minute film,” says the veteran producer. Bohemian Rhapsody is officially an Academy Awards contender. You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. And then there is a human being who can be reclusive and lonely behind closed doors.”, RELATED VIDEO: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Star Aidan Gillen Says Film ‘Deserves’ Award Attention. The film, which has become the highest-grossing music biopic of all time, tells the story of Queen lead singer Mercury, played by Malek, and the band’s rise to fame. Oscars: Will Bohemian Rhapsody lose its Best Picture nomination following Bryan Singer allegations? Bohemian Rhapsody received 16 major nominations in 2019, winning 9 awards. California. "Bohemian Rhapsody" earned five Oscar nominations last month, including best picture. In light of the nominations, it … These five Oscar nominations come after Bohemian Rhapsody took home the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama for Malek. Keep checking back at EW.com this week for spotlights on contenders in all the major categories. Christian Bale, Vice Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody Viggo Mortensen, Green Book. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Bohemian Rhapsody continues to ride high on box office success and awards season glory. Ivor Novello Award to Mercury for "Bohemian Rhapsody" 1977 Brit Award: Best British Single … 2019 Oscars: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘A Star Is Born’, and All the Nominees… The winners will be announced at the 91st edition of the awards on February 24th He has won one Academy Award, one British Academy Film Award, and one Screen Actors Guild Award from four nominations. Actor in a Leading Role. That’s more than A Star Is Born … Find out what your cat is trying to tell you with a new cat app, Princess Diana died when Harry was just 12 years old, Engineer Creates App To Translate Your Cat, The Sweetest Photos of Princes Harry with Diana, Sean Connery's Cause of Death Revealed Weeks After He Dies at Age 90. Bohemian Rhapsody is a 2018 biographical film about Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the … Singer, 53, was let go for allegedly being “unexpectedly unavailable” for several days on set. Bohemian Rhapsody scores 5 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody won big at the Oscars Sunday night. Robot star, 37, studied Mercury’s life and mannerisms very closely, he previously told Entertainment Weekly. It won the award for best motion picture, drama, and Malek also took home best actor in a drama at the Golden Globes. Find out the full list of nominations below or skip the end to watch the live stream video of the nomination … Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, received five Oscar nominations this morning as the list of 91st Academy Award nominations were announced in a presentation by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. ... Oscar nominations predictions: From A Star is Born to Roma. BLACK PANTHER is right behind with three wins. Share. Robot (2015–2019), Malek has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy … Bohemian Rhapsody surpassed expectations in its opening weekend, bowing to a whopping $50 million total. Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and many stars are responding after being recognized by the Academy.. Rami Malek scored a nod for best actor in a leading role for "Bohemian Rhapsody" with his portrayal of Freddie Mercury.. Malek told "Good Morning America" he was in Paris when he heard the news. "Bohemian Rhapsody" won four Academy Awards at Sunday's Oscars, while “The Godfather,” nominated for 11 awards in 1973, won only three that year. “Bohemian Rhapsody” won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture — Drama as well as Best Actor for Malek, who played Mercury. The Academy unveiled its 2019 Oscar nominations early Tuesday morning, with The Favourite and Roma leading all films with 10 nods apiece. BLACK PANTHER is right behind with three wins. We’re predicting that this biopic of Freddie Mercury, lead singer of … Rami Malek has won the Oscar for best actor at the 91st Academy Awards for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.. Malek defeated a strong field, … Where it lands when the Oscar nominations are announced on Jan. 13 remains to be seen. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY heads into the Oscars with Queen legend Brian May praising fans, dismissing critics and blasting the BBC: 'It's amazing how little they matter.' Additionally, Singer has had multiple accusations of sexual misconduct levied against him — which he has vehemently denied. Its first director, Bryan Singer, was fired and replaced by Dexter Fletcher. But before the red carpet is rolled out and envelopes are opened, Entertainment Weekly has inside intel on the 2019 nominees. EW Staff. LOS ANGELES -- Rami Malek had difficult moments making "Bohemian Rhapsody," but he has an Oscar to show for it. Coyote Ugly Turns 20: Where Is the Cast Now? The film was nominated for five awards including Best Picture. In a statement reacting to the nominations, King gave a “heartfelt thank you to the Academy for recognizing a film that has been a true collaboration from a team with a specific vision and determination to honor Freddie Mercury and Queen.” He also added that he was “extraordinarily proud of all of the nominations and the entire Bohemian Rhapsody team. “We hit it off extremely well, and I think they respected the film side,” King tells EW, about informing the rockers of the project — before asking them for permission to use their music. January 22, 2019. The Academy has a history of revoking nods, but only based on technicalities The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has scored a massive 5 Oscar nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody netted five nominations days after it crossed an astounding $800 million at the worldwide box office. Malek has also received one Golden Globe Award from four nominations and one Primetime Emmy Award.. For his work on Mr. Monday 25 February 2019 07:00. https://ew.com/oscars/2019/01/22/bohemian-rhapsody-oscar-nominations Image: matt kennedy/disney/marvel ... the “Bohemian Rhapsody” soundtrack has been certified gold and “Rocketman” isn’t there yet. The performance will be a little unusual since Bohemian Rhapsody is nominated for Best Picture but not Best Song. By Bohemian Rhapsody Oscar nominations include Best Picture, Best Actor. On Feb. 24, winners will be crowned at the 91st Academy Awards. Black Panther BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Green Book Roma A Star is Born Vice. The 2019 Oscar nominations in full. 'Black Panther,' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' score multiple Oscar nominations'Black Panther,' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' score Best Picture Oscar nominations Mashable, could you have possibly meant “clinch”? Bohemian Rhapsody wins multiple Oscars and people are furious 'Every time Bohemian Rhapsody wins an Oscar, God kills a bunny' Jack Shepherd @JackJShepherd. Bohemian Rhapsody might have won the most Oscars at the 2019 Academy Awards with four wins, but Green Book ended up scooping the big one of Best Picture. The Oscars headed towards redemption, but fell at the final hurdle. A Star Is Born racked up 8 nominations and Bohemian Rhapsody picked up five. Christian Bale (Vice) Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born) Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate) *Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) Viggo Mortensen (Green Book) Actress in a supporting role Usually, the nominees in that category are … Box office hit Bohemian Rhapsody has earned five Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor. Interview: How 'Bohemian Rhapsody' sound team put moviegoers inside the Queen Live Aid concert Review: Rami Malek makes a fab Freddie Mercury, but 'Bohemian Rhapsody' will not rock you Bohemian Rhapsody has earned five Oscar nominations including in the categories of Best Picture and Best Actor for Rami Malek’s portrayal of Freddie Mercury.. In total, Bohemian Rhapsody netted five nominations days after it crossed an astounding $800 million at the worldwide box office. RELATED: Rami Malek Confirms Relationship with Bohemian Rhapsody Costar Lucy Boynton: ‘You Are My Love’. How ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’s’ nominations explain the people-pleasing Oscars This biographical film about the British rock band Queen focuses on lead singer Freddie Mercury's (Rami Malek) life. Entertainment Weekly. It has taken nearly a decade to bring this project to the screen, so to see the world celebrate this film is incredibly thrilling.”, As King noted, Rhapsody has faced multiple delays and production issues since it was first rumored more than a decade ago, including the alleged firing of director Bryan Singer more than halfway into production. In total, Bohemian Rhapsody netted five nominations days after it crossed an astounding $800 million at the worldwide box office. The controversies around 'Green Book' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' explained. Oscar nominations 2019: Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody get Best Picture nod, Bradley Cooper snubbed Oscar nominations 2019: The Academy has revealed … Oscar nominations 2019: Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody get Best Picture nod, Bradley Cooper snubbed Oscar nominations 2019: The Academy has revealed its list of nominees for 91st Academy … These five Oscar nominations come after Bohemian Rhapsody took home the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama for Malek. Bohemian Rhapsody won an Oscar and people are furious. “I think we’ve made the best version of a Queen story.”. Tweet. If you would like to opt out of browser push notifications, please refer to the following instructions specific to your device and browser: this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. The Queen biopic, which has set box office records despite mixed reviews, will go up against Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, Green Book, Roma, A Star Is Born and Vice in the category of Best Picture. Though Singer’s exit from the project was unforeseen, King chalks up the early pre-production snags due to his and screenwriters Peter Morgan and Anthony McCarten’s desire to depict the strongest story they could about a legendary group and its lead singer. Get push notifications with news, features and more. “It was a huge moment for me in my life to meet with them.”, That moment has now translated into five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (for Rami Malek’s take on frontman Freddie Mercury). Bohemian Rhapsody is nominated for Best Picture for Oscars 2019. The nominations for the 91st Academy Awards have been launched, with a number of Brits taking the lead in a number of the most prestigious classes – with The Favorite and Bohemian Rhapsody sweeping the board. In addition, the feature was recognized in two other technical segments: Sound Mixing, […] “I would consistently go back to his interviews and performances just to understand the [different] sides of him,” Malek said. “Obviously, there is a very brave, brash entertainer who hits the stage. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. To secure the title, the Mr. Fans of Queen‘s 1975 hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” are no doubt belting out the classic song after Tuesday’s announcement that the blockbuster Freddie Mercury biopic and its star, Rami Malek, scored best picture and actor Oscar nominations. The film Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen’s biopic, was nominated for 5 categories at the 2019 Academy Awards, or simply, the Oscar’s. Get the latest updates, photos and videos for the 91st Academy Awards. Oscars 2019 winners: Best picture, best director, best actor from Bohemian Rhapsody, Netflix to Green Book and more. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. Bohemian Rhapsody received 16 major nominations in 2019, winning 9 awards. Nominations were announced on Tuesday morning by Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross.The Academy Awards will air live Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. PT/8 … This morning the Oscar nominations revealed the … “Bohemian Rhapsody” won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture — Drama as well as Best Actor for Malek, who played Mercury. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. His firing also came amid reports that there was tension between him and Malek. 2019 Oscar nominations: 'Black Panther' & 'Bohemian Rhapsody' fight for best picture You don't lose your sexuality as you get older, says Glenn Close Vin Diesel 'crowdsources' casting call for 'xXx 4' Two movies are tied for the most nominations this year. At first glance, Bohemian Rhapsody would seem to have the odds stacked against it for any kind of Oscar contention. Business. The 91st Annual Academy Awards will air live on Sunday, February 24 on ABC. On the review aggregator site, Bohemian Rhapsody scored a bleak 62, while Vice came in at 64. There are two nominations for the strongest categories of the Oscars, Best Picture and Best Actor (Rami Malek interpretation of Freddie Mercury). Let go for allegedly being “ unexpectedly unavailable ” for several days on set Among the bohemian rhapsody oscar nominations for 2019! '' earned five Oscar nominations on Tuesday ( Jan. 22 ) Awards glory... 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[12], When the house of Katzenelnbogen became extinct in 1479, the city was passed to the Landgraviate of Hesse, and was seat of the ruling landgraves (1567–1806) and thereafter (to 1918) of the grand dukes of Hesse. The old city centre was largely destroyed in a British bombing raid on 11 September 1944. Hello, We are mid - made in darmstadt, a young collective of german designers full of energy and curiosity. Count Johann August of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim, 14. A large number of avant-garde composers have attended and given lectures there, including Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Milton Babbitt, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, John Cage, György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, and Helmut Lachenmann. Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport (Flugplatz Frankfurt-Egelsbach) is a busy general aviation airport located 5 km north of Darmstadt, near the town of Egelsbach. 21 Some efforts have been made ⦠The territory of this grand duchy is much smaller than its neighbors. Christiane Wöhlert-Made is on Facebook. Hotel Bockshaut was built in 1580 for a church presbytery. The similar 'Schloßgrabenfest', which is more live music-oriented, is held in the same location every year in May. Combined with the decoration, the detail shots will be simply gorgeous. [10] 'Dar-mund' in Middle Low German is translated as "Boggy Headlands", but it could be a misspelling in local dialect of another name. Charlotte was a daughter of Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt (1722-1782) from his marriage to Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg (1729-1818), daughter of Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim.. The couple lived in Hanover, where Charles served as Governor-General for his brother-in-law, King George. Princess was born on June 22 1911, in Tatoi Palace. In former times it was part of the Royal Gardens used exclusively by the dukes of Darmstadt. (Publisher's Version) Darmstadt, Technische Universität, DOI: 10.25534/tuprints-00011800, [Ph.D. Thesis] 2017 View Christine Darmstadt’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Margravine Johanna Elisabeth of Baden-Durlach, 24. In 1880 there were 39 Darmstadt families living in New York. Christiane a 3 postes sur son profil. Its origins are unknown. Peter Krauß's research while affiliated with Technische Universität Darmstadt and other ... Christiane Thielemann ... metal catalyst. View Christiane Kellner’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Besides them private schools exist, e.g. A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. The two main centres for Jugendstil art in Germany were Munich and Darmstadt. DARMSTADT - Am Sonntag endet nach gut anderthalb Jahren für Oliver und Christiane Made das Kapitel mit der Koppel. The TU Darmstadt is one of the important technical institutes in Germany and is well known for its research and teaching in the Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering disciplines. Caroline of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (Henriette Caroline Christiane Louise; 9 March 1721 â 30 March 1774) was Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt by marriage to Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.She was famed as one of the most learned women of her time and known as The Great Landgräfin. To create a firestorm, a number of explosive blast bombs are dropped around the city before the incendiary bombs are dropped, thus beginning a self-sustaining combustion process in which winds generated by the fire ensure it continues to burn until everything possible has been consumed. These were Bavaria and Württemberg. It was the residence of the counts of Hesse-Darmstadt, later as Grand Dukes of Hesse by the grace of Napoleon. Grand Duchy Hesse & by Rhine (1806 - 1918) capital: Darmstadt The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine is situated on the banks of the Rhine. She was an efficient administrator and made Darmstadt the cultural centre of the time. Together with other tertiary institutions, the TU is responsible for the large student population of the city, which stood at 33,547 in 2004. Darmstadt is furthermore connected to the Frankfurt S-Bahn system and being served by regional bus lines. Snowfall is most likely in January and February, but mild winters without considerable snowfall can occur. Count Georg Ludwig of Solms-Rödelheim, 29. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Darmstadt became home to many technology companies and research institutes, and has been promoting itself as a "city of science" since 1997. Darmstadt is a centre for the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, with Merck, Röhm and Schenck RoTec (part of The Dürr Group) having their main plants and centres here. Christine Darmstadt (1901 - 1941) How do we create a person’s profile? Foto & Film Hochzeiten & Familien We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person’s profile. Christiane Arnold is on Facebook. It was used by the Russian imperial family and court during regular visits to the Tsarina's brother and family in Darmstadt. Christiane (1679-1722) ∞ 1699 Duke Philipp Ernst von Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg ( 1673-1729 ) After the early death of his first wife he married in 1681 for the second time the Princess Marie Sophie of Hesse- Darmstadt ( 1661-1712 ), daughter of the Landgrave Louis VI. Darmstadt was the first city in Germany to force Jewish shops to close in early 1933, shortly after the Nazis took power in Germany. Countess Maria Elisabeth of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg, This page was last edited on 26 January 2021, at 19:51. These two festivals attract 700,000[28] and 400,000[29] visitors respectively. Furthermore, regional rail lines (R64, R65, R66) connect six secondary railway stations within the city. Darmstadt can be easily accessed from around the world via Frankfurt Airport (Flughafen Frankfurt am Main) which is located 20 km (12 mi) north of central Darmstadt and connected to it via Autobahn 5, S-Bahn, several bus lines and a direct express bus-link ("Airliner"). The Russian church, St. Mary Magdalene Chapel, is named in honor of the patron saint of Tsar Nicholas' mother and was built of Russian stone on Russian soil brought to Darmstadt by train. The airport ranks among the world's busiest airports by passenger traffic and is the second-busiest airport by cargo traffic in Europe. It included six principal installations in Darmstadt and nearby Babenhausen, Griesheim and Münster, plus several housing areas, an airfield and a large number of smaller facilities as far away as Bensheim and Aschaffenburg. As of 1993, the Darmstadt military community also assumed responsibility for the remaining U.S. Army facilities in the Frankfurt area. Christiane Paul, Steffen Groth, Martin Feifel and Peter Simonischek pictured during an on set photo call for the film 'Der kleine Diktator' on November 4, 2015 in Darmstadt, Germany. precipitation / Mean sunshine hours (1981–2010), DWD, City Center with Luisenplatz, the Castle and the Market Square, This page was last edited on 20 January 2021, at 02:06. Darmstadt is also the seat of the world's oldest pharmaceutical company, Merck, which is the city's largest employer. €15 million investment made over 2014-2016 in biotech facility located in Tres Cantos, Spain • 50% increase in production capacity and 20% staff increase • Extension of manufacturing plant will help meet worldwide demand for fertility and growth hormone disorder treatments . Countess Anna Elisabeth of Daun-Falkenstein, 28. While the column still stands, the square is today surrounded by mostly modern buildings. Countess Katharina Polyxena of Solms-Rödelheim, 15. Christiane Paul, Ernst Wilhelm Rodriguez, Steffen Groth, Martin Feifel and director Dani Levy pictured during an on set photo call for the film 'Der kleine Diktator' on November 4, 2015 in Darmstadt,... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Although, during the early 20th century, the word was applied to only two-dimensional examples of the graphic arts, especially the forms of organic typography and graphic design found in and influenced by German magazines like Jugend, Pan, and Simplicissimus, it is now applied to more general manifestations of Art Nouveau visual arts in Germany, the Netherlands, the Baltic states, and Nordic countries. [11] The city, then called Darmstait, became a secondary residence for the counts, with a small castle established at the site of the current, much larger edifice. In 1844 the Ludwigsäule (called Langer Lui, meaning Long Ludwig), a 33-metre (108 ft) column commemorating Ludwig I, first Grand Duke of Hesse, was placed in the middle of the square. The magazine was instrumental in promoting the style in Germany. Regional train at Darmstadt Lichtwiese station. They had 4 children: Ludwig Ernst Andreas von Hessen und bei Rhein and 3 other children . Their children were: Princess Katharine Amalie Christiane Luise (13 July 1776 - … These are:[21]. 275 likes. In 2000, its region also scored Rank 3 amongst 97 German regions in the WirtschaftsWoche test ranking Germany's high-tech regions.[11]. Charles resigned from his post in Hanover and moved to Charlotte's mother in Darmstadt, who then took care of his children (both Frederike's and Charlotte's). Darmstadt was first bombed on 30 July 1940, and 34 other air raids would follow before the war's end. Also during this period, in 1912 the chemist Anton Kollisch, working for the pharmaceutical company Merck, first synthesised the chemical MDMA (ecstasy) in Darmstadt. Christine has 8 jobs listed on their profile. Expand your Outlook. Classic McEliece – one of the NIST PQC Round 3 Finalists E. "Ruth" Darmstadt, age 92, of Painted Post, passed away on Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at Absolut of Three Rivers. Other important squares are the Marktplatz (see image) near the old city hall and the Sabaisplatz at the Mathildenhöhe. In her master thesis she focused on a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she analysed practices of transnational and state governmentality in the field of garbage collection in ⦠Darmstadt was the capital of an independent country (the Grand Duchy of Hesse) until 1871 and the capital of the German state of Hesse until 1945. The weather is often volatile with the summers being warm and humid with frequent thunderstorms, the winters mostly relatively mild with frequent periods of high fog. Georg married Princess Cecilie von Hessen Darmstadt (born of Greece & Denmark) on month day 1931, at age 24 at marriage place. This was about 46% of all the recorded Darmstadt's in the USA. The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) of the European Space Agency is located in Darmstadt. Darmstadt is served by several national and European bus links which connect Darmstadt with other German and European cities. Works by sculptors Manfred Emmenegger-Kanzler (* 1953), CW Loth (* 1954) and Christiane Messerschmidt (* 1963) made of steel, clay, wood, and stone will be shown on around 450 square meters in one of the former machine halls in the heart of the campus … It is well known as a high-tech centre in the vicinity of Frankfurt Airport, with important activities in spacecraft operations (the European Space Operations Centre, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), chemistry, pharmacy, information technology, biotechnology, telecommunications (substantial Deutsche Telekom presence) and mechatronics. Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof – Train hub for southern Hesse. The princess was first engaged with the hereditary prince Peter Frederick William of Oldenburg, but the engagement was dissolved again as a result of the onset of Peter's mental illness. Other important parks are the French style parks Prinz-Georgs-Garten and Orangerie, the modern style Bürgerpark ("People's Park") in northern Darmstadt and the mystical Park Rosenhöhe, ("Rose Heights") which also serves as the cemetery for the dukes, with two impressive mausoleum buildings in its remote parts. the catholic secondary school Edith-Stein-Schule, the Adventists' Schulzentrum Marienhöhe, an anthroposophic Waldorf School, a Comenius School and other faith based private schools. Bei der Produktion ist … ^2019 JKVGSS inaugurated in Darmstadt City, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region), European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, world's busiest airports by passenger traffic, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, The former private chapel of the last Tsar of Russia, List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany, "Wanted: Suitable name for unstable, heavyweight element", "Essential Facts (brochure from the official city website)", "Establishment of TU Darmstadt (in German)", Darmstädter Stadtgeschichte 20. Christiane Baumgart Lovestories. 39 reviews of Steven Darmstadt, DDS "I had been suffering excruciating pain because of my wisdom teeth. Zumindest, was die Bewirtschaftung der ⦠The most Darmstadt families were found in the USA in 1880. mid - made in darmstadt. The Jazz-Institut Darmstadt is Germany's largest publicly accessible jazz archive.[30]. The military newspaper European Stars and Stripes also had its headquarters there. Consultez le profil complet sur LinkedIn et découvrez les relations de Christiane, ainsi que des emplois dans des entreprises similaires. It is due to its past as a capital city that it has many architectural testimonies of this period. A Microsoft 365 subscription offers an ad-free interface, custom domains, enhanced security options, the full desktop version of Office, and 1 TB of cloud storage. Sections of this page. This airport can only be reached by car or bus. A separate small hall (Kammerspiele) with 120 seats is used for chamber plays. These buildings still exist and are used for various public and private purposes. In the beginning of the 20th century, Darmstadt was an important centre for the art movement of Jugendstil, the German variant of Art Nouveau. As part of the U.S. Army's ongoing transformation in Germany, the Darmstadt military community, by then designated U.S. Army Garrison Darmstadt, inactivated on 30 September 2008. Many of its major architectural landmarks were created by Georg Moller who was appointed the court master builder of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. [8] The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is an international accelerator facility under construction. Sehen Sie ⦠2009 MADE IN CHINA, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany, (c) Wild Card, Gallery UP art, Neustadt (Weinstr. View Christiane Heisse’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. The Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, harboring one of the world's largest collections of post-war sheet music,[31] also hosts the biennial Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, a summer school in contemporary classical music founded by Wolfgang Steinecke. Among the museums in Darmstadt the most important are the Hessisches Landesmuseum (Hessian State Museum), the Porcelain Museum (exhibition of the ducal porcelain), the Schlossmuseum (exhibition of the ducal residence and possessions), the Kunsthalle Darmstadt (exhibitions of modern art), the exhibition centre Mathildenhöhe and the Museum Künstlerkolonie (Art Nouveau museum). The website of the 66th Military Intelligence Brigade claims they moved out in 2008, but Google Maps and Bing satellite imagery still show a respectively full and quarter-full parking lot,[original research?] Darmstadt is connected to a number of major roads, including two Autobahnen (Bundesautobahn 5 and Bundesautobahn 67). [23] The grand-ducal palace of Darmstadt is located in the city centre. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are located in Darmstadt, as well as GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research, where several chemical elements such as bohrium (1981), meitnerium (1982), hassium (1984), darmstadtium (1994), roentgenium (1994), and copernicium (1996) were discovered. Christoph Grund 2020 "Christoph Grund is a musician, who knows perfectly well how to give well known music the aura of the new and how to make the audience feel the trace of his intellectual tradition when performing the unknown. Darmstadt has a rich cultural heritage. Life. We've developed a suite of premium Outlook features for people with advanced email and calendar needs. Henriette Karoline Christiane Louise was mother of 6 children and lived (1721-74). ... Beto Perez, Made in Heaven - Espenau, dm-drogerie markt Deutschland, MDF Dienstleistungen Fischer and more ... Others Named Christiane Laubach. Today it is a public park, heavily used in every season of the year. The Protestant Stadtkirche church,[26] built in 1369, is in the pedestrian zone of the downtown city center, next to the historic Hotel Bockshaut. SV Darmstadt 1898 e.V. Darmstadt is home to many research institutions such as the Fraunhofer Society (Fraunhofer IGD, Fraunhofer LBF, Fraunhofer SIT) and the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI, "Society for heavy ion Research"), which operates a particle accelerator in northern Darmstadt. Sehen Sie sich das Profil von Christiane Kellner auf LinkedIn an, dem weltweit größten beruflichen Netzwerk. Countess Charlotte Sibylle of Ahlefeldt, 31. Countess Eleonore Barbara Marie Cratz of Scharffenstein, 7. Alix of Hess-Darmstadt was born on June 8, 1872 in Darmstadt, Germany. This attack was an example of the firestorm technique, which was subsequently used against the historic city of Dresden in February 1945. Over the years, the U.S. military community Darmstadt – under a variety of designations – served as home for thousands of American soldiers and their families. He was previously married to Charlotte's older sister Friederike, who had died in childbirth. Join Facebook to connect with Christiane Wöhlert-Made and others you may know. [34] It draws its support from the nearby U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden. The "Small Hall" (Kleines Haus) is mostly used for plays and dance and has 482 seats. The Russian Chapel in Darmstadt is a Russian orthodox church which is still in use. Charlotte Wilhelmine Christiane Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt (5 November 1755, Darmstadt – 12 December 1785, Hanover), was by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The historically important local airfield August Euler Airfield [de] is closed to aviation at large, being reserved for the use of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. [citation needed] In fact, the stream received its current name much later, after the city, not vice versa. The name is taken from the artistic journal, Die Jugend, which was published in Munich and which espoused the new artistic movement. The present building has been in use since 1972 and has three halls which can be used independently. New York had the highest population of Darmstadt families in 1880. Darmstadt was selected as the secondary target for the raid, but was promoted to the primary target after clouds were observed over the primary which would have hindered any reconnaissance of the after-effects. Darmstadt (/ˈdɑːrmstæt/, also UK: /-ʃtæt/, US: /-stɑːt, -ʃtɑːt/,[3][4][5] German: [ˈdaʁmʃtat] (listen)) is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Vapiano: Vapiano- a good choice - See 364 traveler reviews, 60 candid photos, and great deals for Darmstadt, Germany, at Tripadvisor. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Around 40,000 employees work to further develop technologies that improve and enhance life – from biopharmaceutical therapies to treat cancer or multiple sclerosis, cutting-edge systems for scientific research and production, to liquid crystals for smartphones and LCD televisions. Friederike was born in Darmstadt the eldest daughter of Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, second son of Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Countess Maria Luise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg. She thus became stepmother for her sister's five surviving children - her nieces and nephews. Darmstadt was formerly the capital of a sovereign country, the Grand Duchy of Hesse and its successor, the People's State of Hesse, a federal state of Germany. Even after the garrison inactivation, however, there is still one unit active in Darmstadt: The 66th Military Intelligence Group at the Dagger Complex on Eberstädter Weg,. The Staatstheater Darmstadt (State Theatre Darmstadt) dates back to the year 1711. My original appointment at 7-Day Dental had to be canceled and the next available date was going to be 2 and half months later because their oral surgeon only comes in once a week, not on Fridays. The City of Darmstadt offers students a broad variety of public primary, secondary and tertiary schools. Christiane studied human geography in Munich, Frankfurt and Groningen. Besides that, a number of regional trains connect secondary railway stations within Darmstadt and the region with Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof (main station), offering a net of inner city and regional train links. During this fire attack an estimated 11,000 to 12,500 of the inhabitants burned to death, and 66,000 to 70,000 were left homeless. Charlotte married Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (who later became the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz), on 28 September 1784 in Darmstadt. Schlawitschek, Christiane (2020): Numerical simulation of drop impact and evaporation on superheated surfaces at low and high ambient pressures. German Art Nouveau is commonly known by its German name, Jugendstil. 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Born in Jasper, she was the daughter of Wayne and Elcy (Drake) Mayo.Ruth graduated This entry was posted in cbcrypto on August 13, 2020 by Christiane Peters . The rural areas east of the city in the Odenwald are accessed by several secondary roads. Darmstadt (/ ˈ d ɑːr m s t æ t /, also UK: /-ʃ t æ t /, US: /-s t ɑː t,-ʃ t ɑː t /, German: [ˈdaʁmʃtat] ()) is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region).Darmstadt had a population of around 157,437 at the end of 2016. Sieh dir an, was Christiane Made (christianemade) auf Pinterest, der weltweit größten Sammlung von Ideen, entdeckt hat. Other History posts I made of Baden: Amalie Christiane of Baden, which you can see on this link. The Botanischer Garten in eastern Darmstadt is a botanical garden maintained by the Technische Universität Darmstadt with a fine collection of rare plants and trees. Christiane has 1 job listed on their profile. [16] In 1942, over 3,000 Jews from Darmstadt were first forced into a collection camp located in the Liebigschule, and later deported to concentration camps[17] where most eventually died. By its main railway station "Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof", which is located in the western part of the central city, Darmstadt is connected to the rest of Germany and Europe by the Intercity-Express network and other long-distance trains. Join Facebook to connect with Christiane Arnold and others you may know. Surviving examples of the Jugendstil period include the Rosenhöhe, a landscaped English-style rose garden from the 19th century, recently renovated and replanted,[24] the Mathildenhöhe,[25] with the Hochzeitsturm ('Wedding tower', also commonly known as the 'Five-Finger-Tower') by Joseph Maria Olbrich, the Russian Chapel in Darmstadt and large exhibition halls as well as many private villas built by Jugendstil architects who had settled in Darmstadt. [10], Darmstadt was chartered as a city by the Holy Roman Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian in 1330, at which time it belonged to the counts of Katzenelnbogen. Although Russian orthodox churches also exist in other cities outside Russia, the Russian Chapel in Darmstadt was the only official Russian church used by the Tsar outside the Russian Empire. She was an efficient administrator and made Darmstadt the cultural centre of the time. [11], Darmstadt has nine official 'Stadtteile' (boroughs). As an almost surreal building, it is internationally famous for its almost absolute rejection of rectangular forms, down to every window having a different shape, the style being a trademark of Hundertwasser's work. It is sometimes stated that the name derives from the 'Darmbach' (a small stream formerly running through the city). The roots of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences goes back to 1876[20] along with Technische Universität Darmstadt(the first electrical engineering chair and inventions fame), when both these Universities were an integrated entities, a need for a separate industry based research educational institution was felt in the early 1930s, finally University of Applied sciences emerged as a separate industry based research educational institution in 1971 and is the largest University of Applied Sciences in Hesse (German: Hessen) with about 11,000 students.
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By Paul Bradbury, 06 May 2016, 11:52 AM Destinations
If you are looking for a cycling region of Croatia which has it all, look no further than Central Dalmatia, a tourist paradise which has a wealth of diversity and challenge for cyclists of all levels. The regional tourist board has worked hard in recent years to promote cycling tourism as one of its key year-round activities, and there are now almost 3,000km of marked trails, with much more to come in 2017, as well as dedicated bike maps for inland Dalmatia and the islands of Brac and Hvar. The whole region will be covered by the end of 2017.
Where to start with this paradise? Perhaps in the heart, the Dalmatian capital of Split, one of Europe's hottest destinations after years of being known simply as 'the Gateway to the Dalmatian islands'. With its very own UNESCO World Heritage Site in Diocletian's Palace, Split is a city which has it all - culture, gourmet, beaches, nightlife and enviable neighbouring attractions. For the cyclist in town, don't miss exploring the lungs of the city, Marjan hill, which also offers the best views of this gorgeous city.
Gateway to the islands it may be, but whichever way you turn, there is magic. Another UNESCO World Heritage Site, the old town of Trogir, is just up the coast, a little further along than the seven castles of Kastela which are also home to the original Zinfandel, while a little to the south is the Split Riviera which was named in 2016 as the best 12-month destination in Croatia.
Or head inland for what is perhaps the most underrated and rarely explored part of Croatia, the region of Zagora. Pass by the mighty Klis Fortress, now a famous Game of Thrones filming location, into a region which is rich in nature, heritage, gastronomy, and tradition. Don't miss the Alka knight town of Sinj and its fascinating new museum, the unique Red and Blue Lakes of Imotski, the 600 year-old mills at Grab, or the divine source of the Cetina river.
Or island hop. There are four magnificent islands which are yours to discover - timeless Solta, heavenly Vis, and the two main cycling islands, Brac and Hvar, both of which has developed trail and maps. Brac, home of Croatia's most famous beach at Zlatni Rat, as well as the source of some of the stone in The White House in Washington, also has a famous cycling patron, and former London Mayor Boris Johnson's endorsement of Brac as a cycling destination had more than 1.6 million hits soon after its release.
Or island hop on to Hvar, the lavender island, the sunniest in all Europe, and an island with its very own UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Stari Grad Plain. Olive groves, vineyards, historic towns and villages, all laced with spectacular views - no wonder Hvar was recently included in Duvine's list of top 10 coastal cycling destinations in Europe.
Exciting new projects such as Medpaths and the Dinaric Trail are really opening up Central Dalmatia as a cycling destination, and there are a growing number of cycling-themed events coming to the region, which can only add to the appeal. The big one of course is the Tour of Croatia, but others, such as Cetina Adventure and the new Dalmacija Ultra Trail are showcasing the region as a stunning adrenaline destination nationally and internationally.
For an overview of the region and its cycling, visit www.dalmatia-bike.com, the official regional tourist board website.
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A Large Demand for Cycling Guides in Croatia, and a Tourism Opportunity with a Good Paycheck
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13. March 2021 · Write a comment · Categories: Climate Change, Economics, Prediction, Regulation, Risk
Source: Wikimedia Commons: Shattered right-hand side mirror on a 5-series BMW in Durham, North Carolina by Ildar Sagdejev. Cropped by Nick Foster
It starts in 2025 with a description of a horrific heatwave in India which will stay with me for a very long time. As well it should as, in the book, it kills 20 million people. In response, India send thousands of aircraft up to 60,000 feet to spray aerosol particulates of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere, in defiance of the international conventions banning such activities, to deflect some of the solar radiation with the aim of reducing the probability of future heatwaves for a period. By how much or for how long or with what other consequences is unknown.
As we build up to COP26 in Glasgow in November this year, in the book we start with the results of COP29 in Bogota, where the organisation which would come to be known as The Ministry for the Future (and the title of the book by Kim Stanley Robinson) was set up “to advocate for the world’s future generations of citizens, whose rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are as valid as our own. This new Subsidiary Body is furthermore charged with defending all living creatures present and future who cannot speak for themselves, by promoting their legal standing and physical protection.”
The Indian crisis happens a few months later. The new head of this body, Mary Murphy, is briefly held captive by, Frank, one of the survivors of the heatwave in her own flat in Zurich (the book also feels like a love letter to Zurich) and challenged to do more:
It’s not enough. Your efforts aren’t slowing the damage fast enough. They aren’t creating fixes fast enough. You can see that, because everyone can see it. Things don’t change, we’re still on track for a mass extinction event, we’re in the extinctions already. That’s what I mean by not enough. So why don’t you do something more?
This has a profound impact on Mary, who keeps in touch with Frank and his troubled suffering life throughout the book. It also leans her towards effectively endorsing the involvement of her No 2 in “black” operations to ensure certain people are “scared away from burning carbon”.
Indeed the book is suffused with eco-terrorism. Technological progress has partly displaced the state monopoly of violence, with drone technology in particular meaning that no aircraft or ship or surface navy is safe from a well-enough organised group by the end of the book. People stop flying when aircraft start being shot down regularly, and those that still do fly use carbon-negative airships, where solar panels generate more power than the ships use. Davos attendees get taken hostage and given a compulsory seminar at one point. Tax havens become obsolete when all money becomes digital and tracked.
Mary’s interactions with central bankers are probably the closest this book ever comes to comedy. In the first, she tries to argue for a “carbon coin”, a digital currency which would be paid out to organisations and people who could prove they had removed carbon from the environment. This would be the incentive to work alongside the carbon taxes. The contemptuous response from the Federal Reserve and others at first is “not our purview”, however by the end they are on board with this and many of the other ideas developed along the way.
There are so many ideas in this book, far too many to cover them all here: some of them familiar to me from economics (carbon quantitative easing, Jevons’ Paradox, Modern Monetary Theory, Gini Coefficient – these each get a short chapter among many other ideas and interspersed with riddles) and others not so. The Indian techno fix is the first of many: some successful, like sucking out the meltwater under glaciers to slow them sliding into the ocean and others not so, like the billionaire wanting to refreeze the oceans. Russia dyes parts of the Arctic yellow to reflect more sunlight back. Huge areas of land are rewilded.
What strikes me most is that the arguments we tend to have here and now about which course to take (Freud’s phrase is quoted here in the book – “the narcissism of small differences”) seem largely moot in this one imagined near-future: all of them are tried there – it’s not techno-fixes or de-carbonisation of transport and heating, it’s both. It’s not carbon QE or re-wilding, it’s both. If something doesn’t work, it’s abandoned. By far the most important determinant of which of the IPCC future scenarios we end up on seems to be how quickly we start. Economists come in for particular ridicule there – whatever course of action is planned, they can find one group who thinks it will have one effect, one who think it will have the opposite effect and one which thinks it will make no difference at all. The difference is that the economists are no longer guiding policy there, but facilitating and post hoc rationalising it.
There is a wartime feel to the book throughout, with people doing what they feel needs to be done in desperate circumstances. The choices are all different levels of bad, but bad is almost incalculably better than worst. And the overall impression is of a world changing rapidly, with one of its herd animals belatedly getting into better balance with the others. Even at 560 odd pages the impressions are inevitably just that – one chapter is just a list of different organisations working on aspects of the climate emergency in different countries, described as about 1% of the total number active. It is like the shards of a smashed wing mirror picking out details from the vanishing world behind. I have never wanted to apply the word polymesmeric (which I first saw on the cover of Catch 22 by Joseph Heller) to a book as much as I have to this one.
The hoped-for outcome of all of this? In one conversation this is described as a “success made of failures” or a “cobbling-together from less-than-satisfactory parts”, which I think sums it up nicely.
And I definitely want to visit Zurich one day. Probably by airship.
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Chicago Youth Community Film Festival 2015
A Reel Look at their Neighborhoods...
Alternative Schools Network (ASN) and Community TV Network (CTVN) celebrated student-created films from 8 of Chicago's community-based alternative schools with a festival and awards ceremony in the Chicago Cultural Center's beautiful Claudia Cassidy Theater. This 8th annual Chicago Youth Community Film Festival (CYCFF) showcased the collaborative video pieces of aspiring student filmmakers.
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SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Years of research confirms that involvement in the arts is not only associated with academic gains, but also improves critical social-emotional skills which have been demonstrated effective in reducing violence. In all aspects of the Reel Look arts education program, students witness and demonstrate respect for others, practice listening skills, learn to value other opinions and appreciate the power of a collective voice.
From the conception of the idea for the film to its screening at the end of the school year, youth work collaboratively on films, agreeing to the roles each individual will play in developing their film and then working as a team to set goals and plan the production. Youth creative expression is admired, supported, and within these roles, placed on a pedestal, providing these teens with the positive reinforcement they need to build confidence in themselves and their ability to contribute as citizens.
By teaching youth communication and relationship-building skills, Reel Look helps students exercise personal responsibility and self control as they work with others on tough, divisive topics, demonstrating that issues can be addressed through positive interactions and productive, nonviolent efforts.
As a result of Reel Look, each year at-risk youth are introduced to new technology they would not have otherwise had access to, preparing them with job readiness skills while also serving as a vital social learning opportunity, a conduit for appropriately expressing themselves on adverse issues and an effective violence prevention vehicle.
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By tapping into film as the communication medium of choice for youth today, Reel Look has reached a range of teens, many of whom have been disconnected and faced extraordinary obstacles in their everyday lives. As studies have repeatedly demonstrated, when youth are engaged in their lives, they are much more likely to stay in school and graduate, which in turn minimizes their opportunities to be involved in violence and significantly reduces youth incarceration rates.
Throughout the school year, students participate during the school day in film production classes taught by Community TV Network instructors. The regular classes encourage student attendance and involvement, and their enthusiasm for the project often results in additional after-school hours developing their films – which means less time to get involved in gang activity or situations that could lead to violence.
As Reel Look has evolved over the years, students are seeing how far their voice can travel as they reach more audiences and influencers. As a result, youth are using their films as a jumping off point to take their messages beyond the walls of ASN member schools to advocate for action. This level of extended engagement and time commitment has ranged from presenting a petition to the U.S. Department of Education in Washington D.C. on human trafficking, to working with advocates to o btain grants enabling access to free lunches for students, to community organization efforts calling on peers, neighbors and advocacy organizations to step up and stop the violence.
Central to the Alternative Schools Network’s (ASN) goal of encouraging at-risk youth to stay in school and graduate is the organization’s role in preventing youth violence. In 2007, ASN began an ongoing partnership with Community TV Network (CTVN), a national leader on engaging youth for more than 38 years, to introduce the Chicago Youth Community Film Project: “Reel Look” which culminates each year with a screening of the students’ creative use of video storytelling to bring societal issues youth face every day to the forefront of discussions. The Film Project crosses over instructional learning and afterschool programming to engage teens around an area of high interest to their generation, and ultimately, serves as an effective vehicle to keep them off the streets.
Since its inception, the Film Project has grown to include more than 700 students, representing 11 ASN member alternative high schools and producing a significant body of work – a total of 159 films which have garnered notable awards.
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Home » Academic Themes » Delivering services effectively » Why decentralized action increased from 70s in Tamil Nadu
Why decentralized action increased from 70s in Tamil Nadu
September 29, 2014 in Delivering services effectively by Vivek Srinivasan
This article is a part of a short series introducing my book, “Delivering Public Services Effectively: Tamil Nadu & Beyond”
In the previous article, I argued that decentralized public action increased dramatically from the 1970s in Tamil Nadu. I discuss why this expansion happened at length in the book. A brief summary changes that shaped action is presented below.
Internal changes
Scholars have long argued that resources are critical for the success of collective action. Common people in Tamil Nadu lived under crushing poverty, which made it challenging to invest time and effort in mobilizing people. In addition, there were restrictions on their education and other avenues to gain skills that are critical for effective mobilisation. These factors started changing demonstrably in the post-independence era.
Among them, reservation had a major impact in expanding education and public employment among historically marginalized communities. People with stable jobs were able to engage in protest or at least support such efforts in their communities. Similarly, with the spread of education, a cadre of young people came up in a large number of villages who had the requisite skills to understand the complex administrative mechanism, that allowed them to represent the demands of their communities.
Along with improvements in resources, there was also a major cultural transformation in the state. The great social movements of the past laid the foundation for it by asking marginalized communities not to accept their fate and to rebel against the unjust nature of contemporary society. Many of these movements had great orators, song writers, actors and other artists who had immense cultural impact.
These movements nudged people who were subjected to a long history of oppression to rebel against injustice. Officials and Panchayat presidents who started facing increasingly assertive people often argued that people who were once ‘soft’ had started becoming ‘hard’. This was at times attributed to the influence of Periyar, himself a great rebel. In places where the communists were powerful, officials argued that people were ‘communist minded’, meaning that they cannot be taken for granted anymore.
These changes at the level of the individual and community created greater impetus for action, and they were complemented by external changes that made collective action more feasible.
External changes
Public action is greatly influenced by the context in which it happens. In general, one can expect action to increase if people feel that a protest is likely to succeed. Similarly, protests will decrease if those who engage in them feel that they will be retaliated against, and suffer adverse consequences. There were many changes in Tamil Nadu that proved to be conducive to greater levels of public action over the last few decades.
To begin with, children of large landlords started moving to urban areas, making it impossible for them to exercise direct control that their ancestors did. In addition, Tamil Nadu is one of the most industrialised and urbanised states in India, thanks to which there are many urban job opportunities for the common person. Even if these were poorly paid, they offered an alternative to people who were engaged in protests, thus making it more difficult to suppress a protest by denying jobs that their lives were dependent upon.
There were also changes in the context of organisation, especially through the great social movements, which had created a framework of support for activists across the state. For example, protests often lead to legal cases and without the support of lawyers, those engaged in protest might face stiff penalties. The great movements had created a network of lawyers who supported activists, which made it a lot easier for village level organisers to emerge.
Politically, the change from colonial administration to adult franchise also presented unprecedented opportunities. As people became organised, they were able to use the power of their numbers to make demands for their support. In the early years of independence, this was difficult for historically oppressed communities. As they started organising, they were able to assert themselves and political parties had to accept this reality even more as political competition increased in the state.
These and other factors made it more likely that public action will yield positive results, and that people engaged in them will not suffer adverse reaction that they would have met with decades ago.
This is a rather brief summary of the major phenomenon, and thus there are quite a few gaps in my presentation of the changes here. The phenomenon is discussed in greater detail in chapters 3 & 6 of the book.
Articles in the series
About Delivering public services effectively: TN & Beyond
How I became interested in TN’s public services
The root of TN’s commitment to services
Decentralized action & Great social movements of Tamil Nadu
Why public services & not land reforms?
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Starlite Drive-In
1676 E. Mason Street,
550 cars
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Previously operated by: Rogers Cinemas, United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
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The Starlite Drive-In was located on the East Side of Green Bay on E. Mason Street at Abrams Street. The drive-in was opened July 2, 1949 with Yvonne De Carlo in “River Lady”. It had a car capacity listed at 550. Initially it was operated by Prudential followed by United Artists and finally Rogers Cinemas.
The Starlite Drive-In was closed on September 9, 1982 and has since been demolished with no traces of the theatre left.
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CSWalczak on December 21, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Some pictures of the Starlite as it was in 1959 from the Wisconsin Historical Society:
Ticket Booth: http://tinyurl.com/2g6r36b
Screen: http://tinyurl.com/2cpb8jq
Lights On sign on exit road: http://tinyurl.com/2a6gwar
Mike Rogers on December 27, 2010 at 10:27 pm
It was owned by Badger Outdoor Theatre Company in 1956.
MovieNutGB on February 10, 2016 at 10:59 am
Correction… The Starlite Outdoor was located on Abrams Street , Not Cass street & Mason Street. This theater was located 3 blocks away from my home when I was growing up in the 1970’s and 1980’s. I watched the bolt of lighting Cut the screen in half then the wind blew one half of the screen down..on the night it closed forever… We used to sneak in during the day and turn up the volume on the speakers then watch the film at night….Growing up in the 1970’s was fun…
rivest266 on August 13, 2016 at 12:43 pm
This opened on July 2nd, 1949. Its grand opening ad can be found in the photo section. It was owned by Prudential Management Corp. (from Long Island NY), United Artists and Rogers Cinemas, Inc.
Kenmore on August 13, 2016 at 6:50 pm
A closer address (at least for Google) is 810 Abrams Street, Green Bay, WI. The entrance was off Victoria Street and was about a block long.
Today, the property is a housing edition with no trace of the drive-in remaining. http://tinyurl.com/zz2hwc8
DRIVEIN101 on September 6, 2018 at 6:03 pm
Final night of operation was September 9, 1982 with “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” and “The Beastmaster”. Although the ad from the day’s paper indicated “we hope to see you next year”, the June 23, 1983 edition of The Green Bay Press-Gazette announced that the drive-in would not reopen.
jwmovies on March 22, 2019 at 6:22 am
The address above is incorrect. A more accurate address for this theater is 1676 E Mason St, Green Bay, WI 54302. This points next to the entrance road which is now Victoria St. Victoria did not exist when this theater opened. Abrams is next to the screen but there was no entrance or exit there.
davidcoppock on March 22, 2019 at 9:48 am
Opened with a short(not named), a cartoon(not named), news, “River lady”.
MichaelKilgore on June 14, 2019 at 12:50 pm
An article in the Sept. 3, 1949 issue of BoxOffice provides different information, perhaps reflecting the difference between a preview (soft) opening and a grand opening:
GREEN BAY, WIS. – The new Starlite Outdoor Theatre was opened here with the officials of the county board, Mayor Dominic Olejniczak, association of commerce officials and others attending the ceremony.
The theatre will accommodate 800 cars. The screen tower is 73 feet high, with a 53-foot high neon sign back of it. Robert LeCoque, manager, says that width of the entrances was increased from 40 to 90 feet to avoid traffic congestion. Near the entrance, a picket fence was erected to designate the entrance point on the highway.
A feature of the drive-in is the pony ride to keep kids occupied. Opening show was “Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid,” two color cartoons, a short feature and newsreel. Two shows are given each night.
DavidZornig on April 17, 2020 at 3:50 pm
Images added.
Former drive-in site is all homes now.
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My 20 Years in the Industry, Pt. II
"We cannot ... run companies for stockholders only or look for the one item that will last forever ...."
by Karen Ancona/CLN (March 19, , 2007)
(Note: After more than 20 years, Karen recently stepped back from her position as Editor of CNA. In this and future issues, Karen shares her thoughts on the industry, where it's been and where it's going. To read Pt. I, click on the title in the right-hand column.)
CLN: What are the major changes you've seen?
Karen: Of course every industry has realized change over the last twenty years. A global economy and technology have impacted how we all do business.
But specifically during my career in the craft industry, I have been fortunate enough to know men and women who started companies in the trunk of their car and on their kitchen table. That was back in the 80s and early 90s. I watched those people grow those companies into fine businesses that supported their families and made some of them rich.
On the other hand, I've watched some pretty big thinkers fall flat on their faces here. It's always been a tricky industry and it takes a pretty clever and dedicated person to succeed at it, even though it's what we used to call an "easy entry" industry, meaning it didn't take much capital to get started. [Retired CEO of A.C. Moore] Jack Parker, whom I respect tremendously, once told me he thought ours is the most difficult retail environment.
In the past twenty years we went from an industry trying to figure out wholesale pricing for designers who met minimums to an industry learning about EDI, EAN, UCC Systems, and other supply chain issues. Twenty years ago the sale of a company for $60 million was huge news. Now we watch our stock prices.
Years ago leaders tried to stay in the industry. Now many use it as a stepping stone to other opportunities. Twenty years ago we knew about each others' kids and illnesses and hopes and dreams. It was a small and personal business. No more.
In the 80s our biggest controversy centered on idea theft between exhibitors at trade shows. Now we worry about chain store buyers knocking off manufacturer's products.
Change is the only constant, as you know, and if you want to make it big here, you've got to master the challenges that come with change.
Our products change all the time. It's the nature of our beast. My husband Bill, who has been forced to read every issue of CNA, remarked frequently that each issue was totally different than the one before. His career was in the home center industry where a 1/2 inch nut is pretty much the same as it was 40 years ago. And a hammer is like the one your grandpa bought from the local hardware store when he first left his mother. Not in the craft industry. We change whole departments about every five years. In the area of publishing, it makes it hard for publishers who want consistency in every issue.
CLN: Despite the changes, what basics have remained the same?
Karen: Basically, and we should never lose sight of this, we are an industry that serves a fickle consumer. I don't mean that in a nasty sort of way. It's just that our consumers are creative people. They remain our customers only if we keep them interested with new stuff, new opportunities. Think about this: even creative types making $1,000,000 a week portraying some character on a half-hour sitcom will elect to leave that comfy income behind to try something new. Our creative consumers are just as antsy. It's the nature of the beast.
Creative types are all risk takers. Creative types, whether they are artists, actors, business builders, or crafters, are fulfilled only when whatever they are doing is new and exciting. We cannot, therefore, run companies for stockholders only or look for the one item that will last forever like that hammer I talked about in the last question.
This is one industry where we have to keep our consumers' need for change, merely for the sake of change, in front of our decisions. Instead of being brand loyal, our consumers have always been seekers of new products and techniques.
(Note: To contact Karen, call 941-639-0961 or email karenancona@comcast.net.)
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Torah Portion of the Week— Pinchas
This week’s portion Pinchas, opens with God praising Pinchas, the son of Elazar, for turning back His wrath upon the Children of Israel, when Pinchas was zealous for God’s sake, and brought atonement for the sin of the people. God therefore declares that as a reward for Pinchas’ actions, He will give Pinchas His Covenant of Peace, and that Pinchas and his offspring after him shall be part of the Covenant of the Eternal Priesthood.
The actual details of the story of Pinchas are recorded in Numbers 25, the last chapter of last week’s parasha, parashat Balak. The people of Israel had settled in Shittim, where they began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab. When God’s wrath flared up against Israel, God demanded of Moses that all the leaders of the people who had taken part in this horrible idolatrous act, be put to death.
Moses had just instructed the judges of Israel to punish those who had sinned with the idolatrous Ba’al Peor, when suddenly a prominent Israelite man came forth and, together with a Midianite woman, began to commit an act of public harlotry. It was then that Pinchas, the son of Elazar the son of Aaron the High Priest, stood up amidst the assembly, took a spear in his hand, followed the Israelite man and the woman into the tent and pierced them both. With their deaths, the plague halted, but not before 24,000 Israelites had already perished.
The Torah identifies the two perpetrators as prominent individuals. The man was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of the tribe of Simeon. The woman was Kozbi the daughter of Tzur, a Midianite princess. While Pinchas’ act of vengeance is hailed by God, the commentators are quite troubled by Pinchas’ impulsive and zealous action. After all, by what right does Pinchas decide to preempt Moses’ authority, and take the lives of the perpetrators, especially in front of Moses who had himself witnessed the harlotry?
While the rabbis of the Talmud and many of the biblical commentaries see Pinchas’ deed as heroic and bold from both the Jewish legal and a practical standpoint, they nevertheless are troubled by his action. The Talmud, in Sanhedrin 82a, in fact, confirms Pinchas’ action as being legally correct, but declares that the law is not practiced and not taught. In fact, the Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 9:7, states that the Sages wished to ex-communicate Pinchas for his act. Furthermore, had Zimri, the perpetrator, turned on Pinchas and killed Pinchas in self-defense, Zimri would not have been subject to punishment.
The rabbis wonder why the Torah goes to such great lengths to publicize the names of the perpetrators, calling Zimri אִישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל הַמֻּכֶּה, the Israelite man who was smitten (Numbers 25:14). Some commentators assume that it comes to underscore that since Zimri was a tribal prince, there was a great risk that his fellow tribesmen would rise up to avenge his death. Nevertheless, Pinchas did not hesitate to stop the sinful act and fulfill the call of his conscience.
The Kotzker Rebbe declares that while Pinchas’ act of vengeance was celebrated and his virtues praised, he was nevertheless invalidated from becoming the leader of the Jewish people. Moses had originally thought that Pinchas would have been a suitable replacement, but when he saw Pinchas’ zealotry, he realized, that as a leader, Pinchas could not conduct himself with moderation and flexibility. Therefore, he appointed Joshua as his successor.
The commentators also wrestle with the well-known principle that a Kohen who kills, even when permissible by Torah law, is rendered invalid to serve as a priest. How then could Pinchas become a Kohen? This further underscores the great commitment of Pinchas, who nevertheless proceeded to act even though the action could jeopardize his becoming a priest. Some suggest that an exception was made for Pinchas, and that is why his status was not invalidated.
More likely is that since Pinchas was born before Aaron and his sons were made priests, Pinchas was regarded simply as a Levite. Having the status of a Levite when he killed Zimri and Kozbi, Pinchas was not subject to being invalidated. It was only after God’s blessing, that Pinchas became a priest. Shabbat Shalom
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B’shalach – בשלח
B’shalach describes the departure of the People of Israel from their enslavement in Egypt, as well as the miraculous splitting of the Red Sea. Also included are the statutes and judgments given at Marah, the heavenly manna food, the well that followed the People of Israel in the wilderness and the dramatic war with Amalek.
Despite the multiple themes, this coming Shabbat is known as Shabbat Shira, the Sabbath of Song, which of course refers to Exodus chapter 15, and the song that was sung by Moses and the children of Israel as praise to God in acknowledgment of the miraculous parting of the waters of the Red Sea, enabling the people’s salvation from the hands of the Egyptians.
The reason that this Shabbat is known as Shabbat Shira despite the many other important themes is because, according to Rabbinic tradition, the moment that the Israelites sang their song at the sea, the people’s souls attained the highest state of religious exaltation, their hearts became wellsprings overflowing with Torah, and the sounds of the people’s words were comparable to the voice of the Al-mighty.
The Shira, that was sung at the crossing of the sea, is a most powerful peon of praise to the Al-mighty who rescued the fleeing Israelites. The introductory words of the song (Exodus 15:2): עָזִּי וְזִמְרָת קָהּ, וַיְהִי לִי לִישׁוּעָה, God is my might and my praise and He has been my salvation–reflect the thorough exultation of the people. At that euphoric moment, the Jews saw God so clearly and manifestly that the Israelites could literally point their fingers and say: זֶה אֵ־לִי וְאַנְוֵהוּ, אֱ־לֹקֵי אָבִי וַאֲרֹמְמֶנְהוּ, “This is my God and I will praise Him, the G-d of my fathers, and I will exalt Him!” Clearly, the spirit and power reflected in these words are virtually unparalleled in the annals of human history.
Aside from the extraordinary beauty and passion of these words, this particular poetic praise of God, as is true of all the words of the Torah, harbors a powerful philosophical and theological message. In the second half of this lyrical verse the poet declares, “The God of my father and I will exalt Him,” the implication being that the God of family traditions is worthy of being raised up and held high in an honored place. In contrast, the first part of the verse declares, “This is my God and I will praise Him,” underscoring a personal, emotional relationship with God. How do we reconcile the opposing concepts of these two phrases?
Tradition states that there are two types of spiritual believers. Some religionists believe simply because of family tradition, while others believe only after much personal search, study and analysis. Both these believers are alluded to in the opening lines of the central Jewish prayer, the Amidah–the silent devotion. The Amidah prayer begins with the words, בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה השׁם אֱ־לֹקֵינוּ וֵא־לֹקֵי אֲבוֹתֵינוּ, Blessed art You God, our God and God of our fathers, אֱ־לֹקֵי אַבְרָהָם אֱ־לֹקֵי יִצְחָק וֵא־לֹקֵי יַעֲקב , The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
There are people who believe in God simply because it is their family tradition to be believers. Others through personal learning and searching for meaning and concluding that it is the truth and now is up to you to find out where do you stand.
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Three Men Sentenced to Life in Prison in Arbery Killing
One man will be eligible for parole after 30 years. The three face a federal trial on hate crime charges next month.,
One man will be eligible for parole after 30 years. The three face a federal trial on hate crime charges next month.
A Georgia judge sentenced the three white men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, to life in prison. Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory McMichael, were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, with William Bryan eligible for parole after 30 years.CreditCredit…Associated Press
ATLANTA — A Georgia judge on Friday sentenced both Travis McMichael, the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, and his father to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but issued a lesser sentence of life with the possibility of parole to the other white man convicted of murdering Mr. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man whom they had chased through their neighborhood.
The three men — Travis McMichael, 35; his father, Gregory McMichael, 66; and their neighbor, William Bryan, 52 — were convicted of murder and other counts in state court in November, resulting in mandatory life sentences. The main question before Judge Timothy R. Walmsley on Friday was whether Mr. Arbery’s murderers should be eligible for parole after 30 years, the earliest possible opportunity for such offenders under Georgia law.
The lead prosecutor, Linda Dunikoski, asked the judge to deny the possibility of parole to the McMichaels, arguing that they had displayed a reckless history of “vigilantism” before the killing. She noted that the elder Mr. McMichael had referred to Mr. Arbery as an “asshole” as his body lay in the street and authorities responded. “There’s been no remorse and certainly no empathy from either man,” she said.
She said that Mr. Bryan should be eligible for parole in part because he had cooperated with investigators.
Before issuing the sentences, Judge Walmsley noted that Mr. Arbery had been chased for roughly five minutes while he ran from the men on foot. To illustrate the sense of time, and to emphasize the terror he said Mr. Arbery must have felt, the judge paused and let silence fill the room for one minute.
Judge Walmsley said the case should prompt people to consider what it meant to be a good neighbor. “Assuming the worst in others, we show our worst character,” he said.
Supporters held a vigil for Mr. Arbery on the day in November that the McMichaels and Mr. Bryan were found guilty.Credit…Dustin Chambers for The New York Times
Judge Walmsley’s decision, in the same Brunswick, Ga., courtroom where the racially charged trial unfolded, marked a dramatic moment in a saga that engulfed a small coastal community, and then a nation. For weeks after the killing, the three men walked free, as a prosecutor initially advised the police that they should not be arrested because they were covered by the state’s citizen’s arrest law — and because the shooting was a justified act of self-defense.
The judge’s decision on Friday closed one important chapter in the case against the men who killed Mr. Arbery, who had entered a house under construction in the suburban community of Satilla Shores on a Sunday afternoon in February 2020. The three men pursued him in a pair of trucks, suspecting him of property crimes in the area.
The chase ended when Mr. Arbery, blocked in by the trucks, clashed physically with Travis McMichael, who shot Mr. Arbery three times at close range with a shotgun. Mr. Bryan captured the slaying on his cellphone camera, and when the footage was widely distributed online, it stirred national outrage.
On Friday, Mr. Arbery’s family members gave a series of wrenching statements to the judge, arguing that the men should receive the maximum possible sentences. His sister, Jasmine Arbery, said the men mistakenly deemed Mr. Arbery to be a “dangerous criminal” because of his dark skin and curly hair.
Mr. Arbery was a jogging enthusiast, and his family has said that he had jogged into the neighborhood on the day of his death. Marcus Arbery Sr., his father, told the court, “Not only did they lynch my son in broad daylight, but they killed him while he was doing what he loved” more than anything: “running.”
Wanda Cooper-Jones, Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, noted that her son never spoke to his pursuers during the chase. “He never said a word to them, he never threatened them — he just wanted to be left alone,” she said. “They were fully committed to their crimes. Let them be fully committed for their consequences.”
The case is likely to be appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court. But in an interview this week, Ms. Cooper-Jones said she was bracing herself for the next trial, in federal court, where the three men are charged with hate crimes and attempted kidnapping, and also face potential life sentences. Jury selection in that case is scheduled to begin on Feb. 7.
“I’ll be there every day,” she said. “They need to answer to those charges as well.”
Ms. Cooper-Jones said federal prosecutors had contacted her recently and asked if she would be comfortable with a plea deal. She said she told them that she preferred to see the federal case go to trial.
“They were fully committed to their crimes. Let them be fully committed for their consequences,” Wanda Cooper-Jones, Mr. Arbery’s mother, said in court on Friday.Credit…Stephen B. Morton/Associated Press
Friday’s question of parole eligibility resonated differently for the three men. For Travis McMichael, it was about the possibility of being released as early as his mid-60s. But Gregory McMichael would be in his 90s if he were given the chance to go before a parole board. Likewise, Mr. Bryan would be in his 80s.
Robert G. Rubin, a lawyer for Travis McMichael, argued that his client might have acted recklessly but was trying to look out for his neighbors. Mr. Rubin said a maximum sentence for his client would constitute “vengeance,” and said that a parole board should have a chance to consider freeing Mr. McMichael.
Laura D. Hogue, a lawyer for Gregory McMichael, said he had no criminal record and had committed “thousands” of acts of kindness in his lifetime.
Understand the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
The shooting. On Feb. 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed after being chased by three white men while jogging near his home on the outskirts of Brunswick, Ga. The slaying of Mr. Arbery was captured in a graphic video that was widely viewed by the public.
The victim. Mr. Arbery was a former high school football standout and an avid jogger. At the time of his death, he was living with his mother outside the small coastal city in Southern Georgia.
The fallout. The release of the video of the shooting sparked nationwide protests and prompted Georgia lawmakers to make significant changes to the state’s criminal law, including passage of the state’s first hate crimes statute.
The suspects. Three white men — Gregory McMichael, 67, his 35-year-old son, Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William Bryan, 52 — stood accused of murdering Mr. Arbery. They told authorities they suspected Mr. Arbery of committing a series of break-ins.
The verdict. On Nov. 24, a jury found the three defendants guilty of murder and other charges. The men were sentenced to life in prison, with only one eligible for parole. The three men also face a federal trial on hate crime charges next month.
Kevin Gough, a lawyer for Mr. Bryan, noted that his client had publicly expressed remorse. Mr. Gough made what he admitted was a long-shot argument that the judge should consider a sentence for Mr. Bryan that was effectively more lenient than the mandated minimum.
At trial, defense lawyers argued that Travis McMichael had acted in self-defense when he shot Mr. Arbery. They also argued that the pursuit of Mr. Arbery was legal under a citizen’s arrest law that was later significantly dismantled by Georgia lawmakers.
Prosecutors had given strong indications before the trial that they would make racism an important component of their case. But in the end, several allegations of racism were not introduced to the nearly all-white jury, either for strategic reasons or because of hurdles presented by the rules of evidence.
Instead, Ms. Dunikoski, the lead prosecutor, made a plea to jurors’ sense of basic fairness, and argued that the men had violated rules of common sense when they decided to take the law into their own hands. One of the few hints of racial motive came in her closing argument, when she said Mr. Arbery had been attacked “because he was a Black man running down the street.”
Judge Timothy Walmsley’s decision closed one important chapter in the case against the men who killed Mr. Arbery.Credit…Stephen B. Morton/Associated Press
But the accusations of racism that jurors never heard in the state case could potentially be introduced next month in federal court. They include photographic evidence of Travis McMichael’s truck, which was adorned with a vanity plate with the design of the old Georgia state flag, which incorporates the Confederate battle flag.
Court records show that prosecutors had considered introducing what they described as other “racial” evidence, including Facebook posts or text messages from the three men. In a pretrial hearing, prosecutors read a text message from November 2019 in which Travis McMichael used a racist slur about Black people as he described the idea of shooting a “crackhead” with “gold teeth.”
In a federal court filing in late December, the lawyer for Mr. Bryan asked the court to exclude evidence that suggested Mr. Bryan had “racial animus” toward Black people, including racially insensitive text messages he made around the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and witness testimony “that would suggest Bryan did not approve of his adopted daughter dating an African American man.”
A Georgia state investigator has said that Mr. Bryan told authorities that he heard Travis McMichael use a racist slur shortly after shooting Mr. Arbery. Mr. McMichael’s lawyers dispute this claim. That allegation may be difficult to bring before a jury if Mr. Bryan declines to take the witness stand, which would deny Travis McMichael his constitutional right to cross-examine a witness against him.
According to Justice Department statistics, more than 90 percent of hate crime defendants adjudicated in U.S. district court between 2005 and 2019 were convicted. But Page Pate, a Georgia lawyer and legal analyst, said this trial could prove to be challenging for prosecutors. Racist statements alone, he said, would not be enough to secure a conviction.
“Proving somebody’s a racist doesn’t make it a hate crime,” he said. “You’ve got to show that the crime was connected to those feelings.”
In addition to hate crimes, the federal indictment that was issued in April also charges the three men with attempted kidnapping. Both of the McMichaels armed themselves before chasing Mr. Arbery, and both are charged with using a firearm during a violent crime.
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Tommy Norman Research Paper - May 05, · Economic Impact of the Crusades. The trade of ideas and luxuries with the East had already been underway for a century or two before the Crusades even began. Italian city-states, like Venice and Florence, were making a killing bringing Eastern goods to the Western market. With the Crusades, the West’s appetite for these luxuries grew. Unlike what some of these other Quora users say, the Crusades did not bring an new era of warfare or rift in relations between Muslims and Christians. It is just another chapter of history of warfare between Christendom and Islam. Ever since Islam. The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. The essays in this volume demonstrate that on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean there were rich, variegated, and important phenomena associated with the Crusades, and that a full understanding of the significance of the movement and its impact on both the East and West 4/5(1). Prayer Of Thanksgiving Analysis
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SansГіn Carrasco Character Analysis - As well as number of books, including works of are: The role, wealth and power of the Catholic Church, Farabi (Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi, known in the Political effects, Effects of the Crusades on trade, Effects West as Alpharabius (), was a Muslim scientist and of the Crusades on Feudalism, Social development, philosopher of the Islamic. Impact on Economy—Trade and Commerce Next to the socio-political domain, the Crusades impact on the economy was more visible on the Moslem lands, than on any other level. The diplomatic ties between Europe and the Muslims resulted in the greater presence of European merchants in the east despite various hurdles due to the wars (Hillenbrand. Effects of the Crusades carried across the Mediterranean to the Italian seaports, whence they found their way into all European lands. The elegance of the Orient, with its silks, tapestries, precious stones, perfumes, spices, pearls, and of their trade by the needs of the crusaders, and the opening up of the East. The Mediterranean was. The Boys In The Boat
Walt Disney Competitive Advantage - From until the end of the Middle Ages, western Europeans undertook wars in defence or promotion of their religion throughout the eastern Mediterranean, in the Iberian peninsula, the Baltic, and within Christendom. However, it is the first campaign that is best remembered. ‘Crusades in the eastern Mediterranean’ examines the social, religious, ecclesiastical, and political context of. 99 Words1 Page. Crusade occurred in six religious general of military operations, from Western Europe, Christian countries of the eastern Mediterranean countries launched the war. As the Roman Catholic Muslim holy city of Jerusalem fell into the hands of the majority of the Crusades against Islam, the main purpose is to recapture Jerusalem from. Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. The Crusades took place from until the 16th century, when the advent of Protestantism led to the decline of papal authority. My Nursing Career
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SansГіn Carrasco Character Analysis - Answer (1 of 3): The impact of the Crusades on Europe and the world are many, but here are a few highlights: There was an increased presence of Christians in the Levant during the Middle Ages. This presence resulted in some 10 million deaths due to the wars. This was the beginning of extreme po. The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development in Medieval Europe Lisa Blaydes and Christopher Paik Abstract Holy Land Crusades were among the most significant forms of military mobilization to occur during the medieval period. Crusader mobilization had important. The Crusades became a way to overturn the Roman Empire and establish a protestant leader. The disenfranchised members of European society revolted against the Catholic Church. Question 3. 3. Walt Disney Competitive Advantage
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Graduation Speech: Welcome To Pennsylvania - The 15 papers include studies on the idea of the Jihad before the Crusades, the notion of holy war in Byzantium, the representation of Europe in Arab hero cycles, Islamic views of Byzantium, the Crusades through Armenian eyes, Byzantium views of Latin Christianity, changing patterns of eastern Mediterranean trade and economy caused by the. The crusades had a profound impact on Western civilization: they reopened the Mediterranean to commerce and travel (enabling Genoa and Venice to flourish) I think this is a very Eurocentric way of looking at things. The Muslims still traded with Europe. But when these regions became aggressive, trade . A trade route is a network used to transport goods to other countries. Trade networks made a huge impact on the political, economical, and cultural developments in China, the Middle East and Africa, and Europe. The Chinese were greatly influenced because of trade. Marco Polo was a political influence because of trade. Warren-Yazoo Mental Health Case Study
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Noel Coward was, after George Bernard Shaw, modern England's most prolific writer for the London stage. Throughout a career that spanned more than half a century, Coward was associated with the luminaries of the theater. He developed a witty, sharp, and scintillating comedic style that embraced not only the performance techniques, but the volatile offstage personalities of such formidable figures as Gertrude Lawrence, Beatrice Lillie, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, John Mills, Ann Castle, Angela Baddeley, John Gielgud, Gladys Cooper, Claudette Colbert, Dandy Nichols, Alan Badel, Mary Martin, Cyril Ritchard, Fay Compton, Margaret Rutherford, Kay Hammond, Peggy Wood, Alan Webb, Irene Worth, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Kendall, Edith Evans, Lilli Palmer, Tallulah Bankhead, Raymond Massey, Margaret Leighton, Tammy Grimes, and Michael Redgrave. In addition to his stage plays, his work as lyricist and composer was taken up by leading talents in London and New...
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My favourite reads from February are as follows:
Amanda Prowse - Anna
Prowse never shies from exploring difficult issues in her novels, and in doing so stirs the reader's emotions. In her early life, Anna has a loving home with her mother and brother, but during her childhood, difficulties rear their heads. She finds herself alone, struggling to hold on to her unique character. This is the story of Anna's search for love, and the challenges that face her as she reaches for the dreams she has held since those early happy days.. The author has created characters of great depth, whose flaws and strengths draw us in. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, as it is part of a series of linked books. Suffice to say I can't wait to read the next one.
Rose Dean - Gigi's Island Dream
Gigi takes a sabbatical from her job with her father's firm to follow her dream of being a professional sculptor. Her grandmother has left her a house on the Isle of Wight, and it's an idyllic location. But no sooner has she started on her new life when it begins to unravel. Moreover, her younger brother Freddy gets himself into hot water, and as she's always felt responsible for him, she does her best to help. Disasters multiply, and she struggles on. To make matters more complicated, her boyfriend Rupert is working at the other end of the country. At least her Canadian neighbour, Luke, provides some local support, but their friendship is coloured by the fact that Freddy broke Luke's sister's heart last year. Can Gigi ever get her head above water, and what's Luke's secret? An entertaining read.
Rhys Bowen - In Farleigh Field
This author has written many mystery books, and this novel is focused on a strange occurrence in World War II. Young Phoebe and evacuee Alfie discover the body of a parachutist in a field beside the stately home where they live, in Kent. But something about his appearance isn't right, so he must be a spy . Much of Phoebe's home at Farleigh has been taken over by a regiment. Her older sister Pamela must keep secret her job at the code-breaking establishment at Bletchley, while vicar's son Ben works for MI5. Both become involved in trying to uncover the mystery of the spy. Ben's been in love with Pamela since childhood, but she only had eyes for Jeremy, the charismatic neighbour who became a fighter pilot. But when Jeremy escapes from his German prisoner-of-war camp and returns home, Ben's hopes of getting closer to Pamela are dashed. A large and colourful cast of characters brings a refreshing twist to a wartime novel. Intriguing and engrossing. A few Americanisms creep in as the author, though British, is based in the USA.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川 家康) became the founder of the Tokugawa dynasty of Japanese shoguns during the turmoil after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He defeated his rivals at the battle of Sekigahara in 1600, seized power and revived the title of shogun that had been abandoned by Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
The Tokugawa shogunate he founded would endure until the mid-19th century, and while it would be a time of strict seclusion from the outside world, it would also be a period of peace and stability.
Lived: 1543-1616
Reigned: 1603-1605
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Alice Quaresma
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26 Rue Saint Georges, 1050 Ixelles.
Garden of Eden, Garden of the Hesperides or Babylon, gardens are millennial, often mythological constructions. They represent fictional spaces where the tension between nature and artifice appear, where the inside is protected from the outside, the fences creating a magical place of particular topography and temporality, singular yet not attached to any specific identity.
When thinking about Latin America and Brazil in particular, one can’t help but think about lush vegetation, golden beaches and blue skies, just as the colors harbored by the Brazilian flag. Tropical Gardens approaches this outsider perspective through a series of artworks by Alice Quaresma, Mano Penalva and Daniel Barclay, questioning the idea of personal and collective identity and their representation.
The materiality and spatiality of Daniel Barclays´s artworks relate to the complex imaginary linked to the national flags ‘concept. Using the canvas raw materiality, the artist defines territories and bodies through colors fields or seams while painted signs suggest new identities and alternatives to the burden of traditional nationalist narratives. Vibrant pink and orange paintings take over the exhibition space, while a red canvas proposes a horizontal relationship between body and territory, defying the military interdiction to lay the flag on the ground. Fardo, a hammock referring to the traditional Peruvian funeral cloth, adds an allegoric layer to the impossibility of the immutable condition of the flag. In this context, the painted symbols used to guide the dead in its last journey are seen by the artist as a static image that only serves the living facing the fear of the unknown, or, in other words, what lies beyond the image and its perception.
Mano Penalva´s artworks also carry their symbolic weight. With the series Acordes, the pre-established measures of industrial fabric contrasts with the folds created by the artist to suggest new identities and realities. Evoking the essential reproductivity of things, each fold carries nonetheless an entire universe in itself while their support highlights the fragility and sharpness of human interactions. The translation of Acordes enhances the proposition, as its multiple meanings can designate either an agreement, a musical chord or the imperative “wake up”. A close- up slow motion video of the artist´s asking “quem vai pagar essa conta ? ” (who´s going to pay this bill ?) echoes in an absurd, almost monstrous way with the command to wake up. Bringing relief to the tension established by the former artworks, a unified white flag made of adorned construction bags proposes a tabula rasa of identities, welcoming every human being, independently of their origin or beliefs. Ultimately, a series of artworks from the series Samba, made of the same fabric used to make beach chairs, floats on a wall. With this series, Penalva pays a tribute to the colors of Mangueira, winner of the samba school contest of 2019 Rio de Janeiro´s Carnival which honored outsider characters of Brazil´s popular history as well as Marielle Franco, a young politician assassinated in 2018 by militias linked to Rio de Janeiro´s political elite.
Eventually, Alice Quaresma playfully searches for her past origins and current identity through her physical displacements. Intervening on pictures from her childhood in Rio de Janeiro, the artist, now living in NYC, gathers her affective memories and enhances their subjective meaning through colorful geometric interventions, breaking the flatness and the objectivity of the picture. Her intuitive and generous approach favors a certain animalism, a childlike point of view that brings us past our differences. The apparent simplicity of the proposition implies however a complexity that the artist wishes to appear in its dependence with the viewer´s gaze. Enhancing the political background of the show, an artwork in the gallery entrance echoes with the concerns expressed by Penalva regarding the death toll of minorities in Brazil and Mangueira´s victory, bringing the colors of Mangueira and of the Brazilian flag, overlapped by images translating the country´s chaotic side.
Using matter and form to deconstruct and perform a slippage of the references that inspired them, searching for new meanings and substituting places and geographies with colors and geometries, Alice Quaresma, Daniel Barclay and Mano Penalva may be seen as the creators of a garden. A garden where art and life gather in a heterotopy, a place inside and yet outside of the world ruled by their desires and emergencies.
Anchored in the here and now of nationalists and populists movements in Brazil and worldwide, the artists use their intuition and visual research as a thread to guide us toward a broader truth in an anthropophagic operation that merges their references. Despite their contemporary approach, Barclay, Penalva and Quaresma dialogue with the formal and political heritage of Brazilian neo-concrete artists such as Hélio Oiticica or Lygia Clark. Likewise, the artists reverberate the dark times Brazil went through during the 1964 dictatorship and is facing since the “white coup” of 2016 and the recent election of Bolsonaro, reminding us how fragile and mutable the concept of democracy can be.
Tropical Gardens eventually evidences the contradiction of the idyllic exoticism linked, in the collective imaginary, to South American countries and the inherent violence of post-colonial, pseudo democratic systems, addressing by extension the European migration crisis and the rise of far right movements. This reminds us that the appeal of distant gardens should be taken with care, because as they say, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, only this is a lie.
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ALICE QUARESMA (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1985), lives and works in New York. Quaresma got her MFA from Pratt Institute in 2009 and was selected as one of PS122 Exhibition Prize winners that same year. She won the Foam Talent Prize in Amsterdam in 2014 and had her first institutional solo show in 2018 at the Caixa Cultural (São Paulo, Brazil). Her work has been published in Brazil, Japan, US and Europe. Quaresma participated in exhibitions and residency programs in the USA, Europe and South America. Alice Quaresma also created commissioned projects for Hermès, Air France, Red Bull, Samsung, Première Vision, Unseen and Music from Memory.
Alice Quaresma has been experimenting with materials that allow her photographs to be sensorial and playful, pushing the boundaries of photography as a flat surface. She uses images from her personal photo archive to elaborate on the idea of displacement and identity. The painted geometries over the images break the perfection of the camera and bring the beauty of the hand gesture to the foreground, questioning photography´s rigid assertion of objectiveness.
MANO PENALVA (Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, 1987), lives and works in São Paulo. Penalva has showed in Latin America, the United States and Europe. Amongst his solo shows are: Acordo, Central Galeria (São Paulo, 2019). Requebra, Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection (Brussels, 2018); Hasta Tepito, B[X] Gallery (New York, 2018); truk(ə), Soma Galeria (Curitiba, 2018), Estado Sul, Camelódromo (Porto Alegre, 2017); Andejos, MARP (São Paulo, 2017); Balneário, Central Galeria (São Paulo, 2016); and the group shows: Recipes of B.R.S.L?, Spring Break (New York, 2019); O Maravilhamento das Coisas, Galeria Sancovsky (São Paulo, 2018); Ser, Habitar e Imaginar, Concrete Space, (Miami, 2018); Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa, Hangar (Barcelona, 2017); Symphony of Hunger: Digesting FLUXUS in five movements at A PLUS A Gallery (Veneza, Itália, 2015). His work is held in private and public collections such as: Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection – Brussels – Belgium, PAT Art Lab – Augsburg – Germany, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto – Brazil, Laje – Bahia – Brazil.
Mano Penalva documents the material culture and behavioral changes linked to globalization. His artworks are deliberately nonrepresentational, allowing materials to dictate form and come together on their own. His process involves his interest in anthropology and cultural education, which materializes his emergency to appropriate found and purchased articles from the street, popular markets or travels in the composition of his work, breaking down frontiers into a globalized language, subverting values and meanings and evidencing social and philosophical discourses in the forms of created objects.
DANIEL BARCLAY (Lima, Peru 1972), studied Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts Corriente Alterna in Lima and Central Saint Martins Art School in London. In 2010, he participated of the FAAP Art Residency in Sao Paulo and moved to Brasil where he currently lives. Between 2011 and 2018 he participated in different art residencies in Brasil, Colombia and Italy. Amongst his recent shows are: Siesta at Emma Thomas Gallery (São Paulo), Pavilhão / Pabellón in Cecilia González Gallery (Lima) and Caderno Jornal at gallery 55SP (São Paulo). Daniel Barclay participated in the collective exhibitions “O Maravilhamento das coisas” at Sancovsky Gallery (São Paulo) and “La voz que se oye/ deja oir” in Amano Museum (Lima).
Multidisciplinary artist, his research focuses on the representation of identities and geographies through paintings, drawings and installations; bringing closer the concepts through installations and paintings in which diverse reading codes coexist, merging them in an anthropophagic operation.
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Trump is better for Britain than Sadiq Khan the Muslim mayor of London
WATCH | Piers Morgan with a message to protesters of President Trump's visit to Britain.
"He's said every time we need him militarily he'll be there. On trade, he's going to do a great new trade deal with us. Hold your nose if you don't like him and put Britain's interests first!"
Are you listening Sadiq Khan?
Trump will visit Britain, and the British people will welcome him, whether Muslim mayor of London likes it or not.
The Muslim mayor of London constantly attacked Trump and demanded that the British government cancel his visit to Britain.
The Mayor of London repeatedly went to the media and declared "Trump is not welcome in the UK".
Here is why Western countries should adopt Trump's Travel Ban:
Trump, as a candidate, called in 2015 for a ban on refugees from terror-laden countries.
Trump is correct, Just look at what has been happening to Europe in recent years since the beginning of the immigration crisis.
Here are only few examples:
3 June 2017 - London: Eight people were killed when three Muslim terrorists drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge.
22 May 2017 - Manchester: Suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at Manchester Arena as fans were leaving an Ariana Grande concert, killing himself and 22 others.
7 April 2017 - Stockholm: Muslim terrorist drove stolen truck into a crowd in the Swedish capital, killing four people and wounding 15 others.
19 December 2016 - Berlin: Muslim terrorist drove a truck into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 56 others.
Hundreds of innocent people have been killed in terrorist attacks in France, Germany, Britain, Finland and even Sweden.
After Millions of illegal immigrants and refugees have infiltrated into Europe thanks to the EU's open borders policy.
According to British media, London is now more dangerous than New York City. According to crime statistics, crime across the U.K. was up 13%, with much of it in London.
Rape, robbery, Acid attacks, honor killings and violent offenses have surged dramatically. Figures like these have risen in many European countries, with Sweden becoming “Europe’s rape capital,” Germany’s steep rise in violent and crimes, and Paris’s frequent terror attacks.
EU, Australia, US, UK, and even Canada must close their borders.
A country without borders is a country without security.
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Multiculturalism has failed in Europe.
Most people are unaware of the consequences of the illegal mass immigration into Europe that lead to the changing face of Europe.
The British have become a minority in their Own capital city.
In Sweden the situation is even worse, Swedish majority will live long enough to see themselves becoming a minority in their own country.
More and more countries are taking steps against the immigrants' culture.
France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria have banned the burqa.
Switzerland passed an anti-mosque law which bans preaching in Arabic and mosque's minarets.
Austrian passed a law which restricts foreign funding for Austrian mosques and Islamic communities
All these measures were taken by these countries to force immigrants to integrate into Western society.
But there are Western countries that do not even acknowledge that there is a lack of integration within the immigrant communities.
The Western world must close the borders before it is too late.
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Is the Madison Police Chief’s Departure a Gentle Push Out the Door?
Within the next few days, the police chief of Wisconsin’s second largest law enforcement agency, the City of Madison Police Department, is set to retire. Noble Wray, a 52-year-old empty nester, is exiting his post to spend more time with his family.
While Wray might be getting the glad-hand treatment from the liberal press, there are some who believe that he was gently pushed out the door by Madison’s far-left, on-again, off-again mayor, Paul Soglin, over the shooting death of a local musician at the hands of Madison Police Officer Stephen Heimsness. On November 9, 2012, a highly intoxicated Paul Heenan attempted to enter the home of a couple, who contacted the police. When Heimsness arrived, Heenan, it is alleged, reached for the officer’s firearm and, as one would expect, bad things happened.
The shooting death of Heenan was investigated thoroughly. The case was reviewed by the Dane County DA’s office and the Professional Performance Division of the Madison Police Department. Both agencies later cleared Officer Heimsness. However, with Madison being Madison, residents voiced outraged that an officer would dare shoot a man who simply reached for his firearm, even though common sense dictates that the purpose of disarming an officer is to retrieve and possibly turn the firearm against the officer. Each year, about 15 percent of the police officers in the U.S. shot-and-killed in the line of duty die as a result of their firearms being turned against them.
Ironically, while it is the justifiably-ruled shooting death of Heenan that led, at least in a de facto sense, to Wray’s gentle exit, the homicides of Madison co-eds Brittany Zimmermann and Kelly Nolan remain unsolved. The Madison media, for the most part, has given Wray a free pass on these two troubling slayings, even though the press is keenly aware that two killers remain at-large to offend again. I profiled some of the problems with the Zimmermann investigation in my latest book, Best of the Spingola Files, Volumes I & II.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Spingola-Files-Volume-Steven/dp/0979683998/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380280278&sr=8-1&keywords=best+of+the+spingola+files
From my conversations with those in the know, Wray’s record as chief is a mixed bag. He riled the normally docile Madison Professional Police Officers Association — the union representing rank-and-file Madison officers, sergeants, and detectives — by ordering an internal investigation of Heimsness’ tenure as an officer after the shooting of Heenan, where it was learned that Heimsness sent some troubling messages over his squad car’s mobile data computer (MDC). Granted, the messages were, to say the least, unprofessional, but they did not merit the officer’s termination, as Wray requested. Looking at this investigation from the lens of my 30-plus years of policing experience, I believe Wray was trying to placate the liberal establishment in Madison by forcing Heimsness out the door for disingenuous reasons.
Moreover, while Wray asked the residents of Madison to trust him, he used his position as chief of police to advocate for the lenient treatment of minority felony offenders, citing a racial bias in the criminal justice system. My position on this matter is simple: if an individual — regardless of his or her race — does not wish to spend time in prison, do not commit serious crimes and then whine like a stuck pig while incarcerated.
Others privately complain that Wray’s command staff is top heavy, with two captains having similar titles and basically the same job responsibilities as the Madison Police Department’s two assistant police chiefs. Eliminating these positions would free-up about $300,000, enough to hire six additional police officers. With the Madison media in the tank for Wray, reporters and newspaper editors have never dared ask, for a fear of reduced access, why a police department that serves a city of 215,000 people needs two assistant chiefs of the police.
As far as the selection process for the next City of Madison police chief, the Spingola Files has checked with sources and believes that the Madison Fire and Police Commission will expand the search to include external candidates. The Madison Police Department’s soon-to-be interim police chief, Randy Gaber, is considered too much of a good old boy insider to ascend to the top job, even though, barring some type of political controversy, his hands are steady enough to guide the department through the transition. The most qualified internal candidate, if he chooses to apply, is Captain Vic Wahl. If outside candidates can opt-in, Commander Michele Donegan, of the Nashville Police Department, and Assistant Police Chief Jessica Robledo, of the Austin PD, might apply.
If these conventional choices do not pan out, under Soglin’s influence, the Madison Fire and Police Commission might shake things up by appointing a complete, low level outsider, such as Madison’s flower child former police chief, David Couper, whose only qualifications were being a liberal and having served as a detective in small town Minnesota.
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On Tuesday evening, I had the privilege to present the “Psychology of Homicide” program at the Racine Public Library. Afterwards, CBS 58 profiled the event and other crime related issues on its 10 PM newscast. To view the segment please visit the link below:
http://www.cbs58.com/news/local-news/The-Psychology-of-Homicide-225132002.html
Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His latest print edition only book, Best of the Spingola Files, Volumes I & II, is now available at Amazon.com.
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September 27, 2013 | Categories: Cop Talk | Tags: David Couper, Jessica Robledo, Madison Police Department, Michele Donegan, Noble Wray, Paul Soglin, Vic Wahl | Leave A Comment »
The Cop Against the Machine
Madison PD Officer Stephen Heimsness
The term “cozen”—meaning deception to win gain by shrewd trickery—is typically the antithesis of the word “noble,” although this rule of the English language might no longer apply in some quarters of our state’s capitol, where some seasoned law enforcement veterans believe Police Officer Stephen Heimsness is in the process of getting railroaded.
This leads one to wonder: is the Madison Police Department’s version of The Cozen Protocol being hatched inside the offices of its chief-of-police, Noble Wray, with his internal investigators playing the perfunctory roles of Bullpen Detectives John Spinelli and Bob Hillmeyer?
At 2:45 AM on November 9 of last year, Heimsness responded to a report of a possible entry in progress at a home on Madison’s isthmus. As he approached the residence, the officer observed the homeowner struggling with a man, later identified a Paul Heenan. The intoxicated man then moved towards the officer and, according to Heimsness, Heenan reached for his gun. The two men then began to grapple. Believing that the only reason an attacker would seek to disarm a police officer is to turn the gun against him, Heimsness fired three shots, killing Heenan.
Of course the residents of Madison are acting like the far-left residents that they are—a town that the late Wisconsin Gov. Lee Dreyfus once described as “Thirty-square miles surrounded by a sea of reality.” From the comfort of their coffee houses on Williamson and State Streets many Madisonians are now expert armchair cops, second-guessing Heimsness at every turn, even though they know that about one-in-ten police officers murdered each year are killed with their own firearms.
http://www.policeone.com/close-quarters-combat/articles/100228-Cases-of-Officers-Killed-by-Their-Own-Guns-Likely-Will-Not-Change-R-I-Policies/
Other former Madison officers active in liberal causes have also stalked the flames burning under Heimsness’ feet. Cheri Maples, a former police captain who now serves as a Buddhist teacher, told the Wisconsin State Journal that while she was “…not in a position to question Officer Heimsness’ statement that he feared for his life, I sincerely believe few officers would have made the same choice in the same set of circumstances.”
After reading Maples’ quote, many current and former law enforcement officers are probably wondering if the former captain was ever in the same position as Heimsness—in a struggle with an intoxicated person reaching for her firearm? My guess is that she was not, which is why Maples used the third person when referencing what officers would do in the same circumstance.
My suggestion to both Maples and Wisconsin State Journal reporter Sandy Cullen is this: why not interview police officers who actually walked-a-mile in Heimsness’ shoes? In some instances, I recognize that this might be difficult to do, since many of them are now deceased.
Meanwhile, I believe, Madison’s police chief, Noble Wray, appears to want it both ways. While he has steadfastly defended Heimsness’ actions in regards to the shooting, Wray, it seems, is beginning to buckle under the pressure brought to bear by the city’s left-wing political establishment.
On February 3, Wray announced that the Madison Police Department had opened three “new” investigations of Heimsness’ conduct unrelated to the shooting or to the use of force.
“Although these investigations are not complete,” Wray told the Wisconsin State Journal, “I find the preliminary information to be troubling.”
Whatever happened to the Madison Police Department’s policy of not commenting about ongoing internal investigations?
Moreover, negatively commenting on an internal investigation prior to its conclusion seems to run counter to civil service law. Wisconsin State Statute 62.13(5)(em)3, states, that a police chief must “…before filing the charge against the subordinate, made a reasonable effort to discover whether the subordinate did in fact violate a rule or order.” How can the chief-of-police claim that he made a “reasonable effort” to substantiate a charge against an officer after he publicly claimed that “preliminary” information, absent all the facts, is “troubling”?
In preparation for this post, SF reached out to those who understand the internal politics of the Madison Police Department, as well as those that know Officer Heimsness. To a person, they had good things to say about Heimsness, although they also believed he is soon to fall victim to Madison’s version of The Cozen Protocol.
When asked if the Madison PD was collecting dirt so they can threaten Officer Heimsness with the loss of his job and force him to resign, one officer replied, “You are right on. Things are not good.”
Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His latest book, Best of the Spingola Files, Vol. II: Here’s Looking at You, is available at Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Spingola-Files-Vol-ebook/dp/B00AGZTALE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354972268&sr=8-1&keywords=spingola+files
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February 17, 2013 | Categories: Cop Talk | Tags: Cheri Maples, Madison police, Noble Wray, Stephen Heimsness, The Cozen Protocol | 5 Comments »
Old School Sleuths Weigh-In on Most Current Crop of Detectives
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His new book, Best of the Spingola Files, is now available at Amazon.com.
If your group is in need of a fascinating guest speaker, consider the Spingola Files Psychology of Homicide presentation. For more information, visit www.badgerwordsmith.com/the_psychology_of_homicide_presentation.html
[1] “Murder Mysteries: National Statistics.” KnoxvilleNews.com. 31 March 2012. http://www.knoxnews.com/data/murder-knoxville-nation/
[3] Hogue, B. “DNA Collection Bill Proposed.” Wrn.com. March 2, 2012. 31 March 2012. http://www.wrn.com/2012/03/dna-collection-bill-proposed/
March 31, 2012 | Categories: Cop Talk | Tags: American Stasi: fusion centers and domestic spying, Brittany Zimmermann, DNA, fusion centers, Kelly Nolan, Madison Police Department, Noble Wray, SB-214 | 2 Comments »
Has the Cap of Law Enforcement Professionalism Come Off?
“Politics is war without guns,” former Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong once said. “War is politics with guns.”
Mao’s pointed but extremist view of the political arena is an illustration of why politics—even in the United States—is often referred to as a ‘blood sport.’
As such, observers of the political theater better known as Battleground Wisconsin should not be all surprised by heavy-handed tactics and dirty tricks.
Yet Ian Murphy, a kook-blogger from Buffalo, New York, recently reached a new, Nixonian-type low last week when he telephoned the office of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. During a secretly recorded telephone conversation, Murphy falsely assumed the identity of industrialist David Koch and then attempted to bait the governor with over-the-top rhetoric. The strategy behind the the call proved unsuccessful, although the lack of due diligence by the governor’s staff in vetting the imposter is glaring.
Of course, politicians with vicious dogs in this fight, as well as those carrying water for their partisan bosses, are interpreting Walker’s remarks to benefit their side’s agenda.
In comments made to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Madison Police Chief Noble Wray took issue with Gov. Walker’s response to Murphy’s baited question about placing “troublemakers” in the crowd of protestors.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/116828353.html
But what is the definition of an actual “troublemaker”?
Is it an elected member of Congress telling others that, in reference to events in Wisconsin, “Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary”?
http://nhjournal.com/2011/02/23/dem-rep-to-unions-time-to-get-‘bloody’/#
Is it trespassing and then, for all practical purposes, taking over the private property of another?
http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/thugs-take-over-rpw-offices/
Is it acting like a group of spoiled, out-of-control teenagers who couldn’t get their way on the floor of the State Assembly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f0VProvuAo
Or, worse yet, is it committing felony?
In this instance, Chief Wray is not only selective in whom he publicly chides as instigators — he has it all backwards. It is not Walker’s vague comments that are troubling, but rather Ian Murphy’s use of David Koch’s “personal identifying information” that points to evidence of a serious crime.
According to Wisconsin state statute 943.201(2): Whoever, for any of the following purposes, intentionally uses, attempts to use, or possesses with intent to use any personal identifying information or personal identification document of an individual, including a deceased individual, without the authorization or consent of the individual and by representing that he or she is the individual, that he or she is acting with the authorization or consent of the individual, or that the information or document belongs to him or her is guilty of a Class H felony:
(a) To obtain credit, money, goods, services, employment, orANY other thing of value or benefit;
(b) To avoid civil or criminal process or penalty;
(c) To harm the reputation, property, person, or estate of the Individual.
Wisconsin state statute 943.201(1)(b)(1) describes “personal identifying information” as “an individual’s name.”
Now if Murphy made this call out-of-state, a prosecution for violating state law maybe problematic; however, persons involved in the commission of crimes that occur in Wisconsin face the possibility of charges if they conspired to commit the crime in another state. Wisconsin state statute 939.31 describes a conspiracy as follows:
“Whoever, with intent that a crime be committed, agrees or combines with another for the purpose of committing that crime may, if one or more of the parties to the conspiracy does an act to effect its object, be fined or imprisoned or both not to exceed the maximum provided for the completed crime; except that for a conspiracy to commit a crime for which the penalty is life imprisonment, the actor is guilty of a Class B felony.”
Ethically, Chief Wray’s department needs to put politics aside and investigate if an actual felony may have occurred during Murphy’s conversation with Gov. Walker; otherwise, Wisconsin’s attorney general, J.B. Van Hollen, has the authority to step in and do so.
During heated political discourse, labor unrest, or civil strife, law enforcement agencies become—like it or not—the uniform arbitrators of fairness. One section of The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics reads, “I will never act officiously or permit personal feelings, prejudices, animosities or friendships to influence my decisions.”
Could it be that Chief Noble Wray has checked his cap of professionalism at the door and is simply walking in lock step with his city’s mayor, Dave Cieslweicz?
http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/116946593.html)
Steve Spingola is an author and former Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective.
February 26, 2011 | Categories: Battleground Wisconsin | Tags: Gov. Scott Walker, Ian Murphy, Mao Zedong, Noble Wray | 10 Comments »
Gun Toting in Madison: Are All Constitutional Rights Considered Equal?
With the exception of Berkeley, California, the city of Madison, Wisconsin is probably the most liberal town in the United States, although activists there prefer the label “progressive.” But an incident that occurred at a northeast side restaurant is testing the Madison Police Department’s respect for the state and federal Constitutions.
On September 18, five men decided to pay a visit to a Culver’s restaurant, located near the popular East Towne Mall. Seated at a picnic table outside, the men politely conversed over some custard that they had purchased. The only thing that distinguished these particular customers from the others was the holstered firearms that they openly carried.
Wondering if such conduct was lawful, a 62-year-old woman contacted the Madison police. Soon, a swarm of officers responded to the call of gun-toting, custard eating men.
When the officers arrived, they demanded identification. Two of the five men politely declined to identify themselves. They were handcuffed, searched, and issued tickets for obstructing the issuance of a citation. In Wisconsin, however, individuals contacted by law enforcement are not required to identity themselves unless they’re operating a motor vehicle, where the law requires the production of a driver’s license.
A legal representative for the five men, members of a group that advocates the open carry of firearms, immediately threatened legal action.
And it looks as if the men may have a case.
It seems the actions of the Madison officers, and the subsequent response from their chief-of-police, runs contrary to a April 19, 2009, opinion issued by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.
“His [Attorney General Van Hollen’s] memorandum to prosecutors” writes Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Patrick Marley, “says the mere act of having a gun does not warrant a charge of disorderly conduct, a position that pro-gun advocates have argued in several recent legal cases.”
Van Hollen further explained that openly carrying firearms, even if technically legal, does not exempt those who do so from questioning. Of course, the current state of the law allows a law enforcement officer to contact virtually anyone in a public place. There is some ambiguity in the AG’s opinion as it relates to an official stop and the subsequent temporary detention of an individual if a reasonable suspicion does not exist that they are violating a local ordinance or state law, which goes to the heart of the Madison Police Department’s actions.
After all, absent an officer’s belief that a reasonable suspicion exists that a crime is being committed, has been committed or is about to be committed, citizens are not obligated to comply when simply contacted by the police.
But instead of apologizing to the two men, who were handcuffed, searched and cited for doing nothing illegal, it appears that the Madison police have dug in their heels. After releasing the two citations for obstructing the issuance of a citation, Madison’s police chief, Noble Wray, ordered his officers to issue each of the five men disorderly conduct citations.
“The complaint clearly reveals she [the woman who called the police] recognized the potential for violence from these armed men and it was this fear that motivated her call to police,” Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain told the Wisconsin State Journal.
On Friday, however, WTMJ talk-show host and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Wagner obtained the 62-year-old woman’s 911 call, where she clearly told the 911 operator that she was not disturbed but simply found the presence of openly carried firearms out of place. On his show, Wagner went so far as to call Madison’s police chief “a liar.”
Listen to the 911 call by following this link: http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-washington-dc/madison-five-911-call-video
It appears that, after the fact and facing the possibility of legal action from the open carry organization, the Madison Police Department sent detectives to re-interview the woman. Why these detectives were assigned follow-up to a complaint, that any objective person, having listened to the 911 tape would find baseless, I believe, points to some skillful posterior covering.
But the police chief’s response goes further.
In a September 22, 2010, news release, Noble Wray tells his officers that, “The individual [openly carrying a firearm] should be contacted, controlled, and frisked for weapons if appropriate. Officers should separate the suspect from any weapons in his/her possession during the encounter.”
But what if the party simply being ‘contacted’ for conduct the Wisconsin Attorney General believes is lawful does not wish to comply and is then ‘controlled’ and their lawfully held property seized for examination? Wray’s memo seems to place his officers in the field between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
You can bet that open carry advocates will continue to push the envelope and many of these issues will likely be decided in state and federal courts.
In the meantime, taxpayers in the city of Madison—hang on to your wallets.
Steven Spingola is a former Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective and the author of Predators on the Parkway: a Former Homicide Detective Explores the Colonial Parkway Murders.
September 25, 2010 | Categories: Cop Talk | Tags: J.B. Van Hollen, Madison police, Noble Wray | 9 Comments »
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Badge 387: The Story of Jim Simone, America’s Most Decorated Cop , is authored by Cleveland-area crime journalist Robert Sberna. While conducting research pertaining to police officer use of force, the author learned more about Officer Jim Simone, who members of the news media and many in Cleveland referred to as “super cop.”
Simone’s saga is not simply that of a dedicated rank-and-file cop; this is a story of an American hero. After graduating from high school in the mid-1960s, Simone received an academic scholarship to college in Ohio. A year earlier, President Lyndon Johnson had escalated the war in Vietnam. Just prior to college classes starting, Simone’s father — a World War II veteran — walked into his son’s bedroom and said, ‘There’s a war going on. Get your ass down there and enlist.’
Simone later became a member of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne. During a tour in Vietnam, he was wounded twice, and received two bronze stars and two purple hearts. The second time, medics initially wrote him off for dead, but he recovered. While convalescing at Walter Reed Hospital, an official asked Simone to enter officers’ candidate school. Simone refused saying that he had killed more people than he could remember and he was mentally done with the military.
Later, after becoming a member of the Cleveland PD, Simone set record levels for arrests and other activity. He also drew the ire of other officers because he did not believe in professional courtesy.
In December 1983, Simone and his fellow officers searched the basement of a church for a carjacking and robbery suspect. The officers didn’t know it, but the suspect — a convicted felon strung out PCP — likely wanted to commit suicide by cop. Armed with a revolver, the suspect was hiding in a basement closet and, as officers attempted to clear the closet, shot Simone in the face. The round exited the back side of Simone’s skull. Two other officers were also shot before the shooter was killed. When fellow officers finally made it to his side, Simone told them that he knew that he was dying, but, miraculously, he survived.
There is another interesting story in this book. A colleague of Simone’s shot several people who were African-American (the five people shot by Simone were white). Although Simone was viewed as super cop, the other officer was repeatedly harassed by the media, the brass at the Cleveland PD, and by critics in the community. This officer told the author that such actions lead to “de-policing,” where good cops simply throw up their hands and refuse to do their jobs for fear of retribution. The officer correctly noted: “Political correctness is killing this country.”
One thing that impressed me about this book was the objectivity of the author. Mr. Sberna carefully sifted through the facts, and viewed events and the actions of officers in their totality. One call tell that the author is a throwback to an era when journalists reported the news, and did not seek to make news or carry water for a particular ideological agenda. In this book, when officers were out of order, Sberna called them out; however, the author also held political figures to the same standard. This would never happen in Milwaukee, where the anti-police agenda at the newspaper is evident for all to see.
Overall, this is a very good book. Anyone interesting in entering law enforcement or seeing what police officers must deal with should read this book. I give it five stars, and guarantee that it will never be reviewed by anyone at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
September 17, 2016 | Categories: Book Review | Tags: clevelland police, Jim Simone, Robert Sbenra, super cop, use of force | Leave A Comment »
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Job security How does work affect our health?
This analysis is part of a collection exploring how work affects health.
The charts on this page explore trends and inequalities in job security, reflecting on what these mean for people's health.
An insecure job can act as a stressor that affects health, due to the unpredictability and lack of power that people can have when they are in insecure employment.
How many people are in insecure work?
How many people are in involuntary insecure work?
Which groups are most likely to be in insecure work?
In 2018 2.4 million people were in potentially insecure work, which has remained relatively stable for four years.
Note: much of the increase in zero-hours contracts between 2011 and 2014 reflected increased recognition of the term, which influenced survey responses.
There has been little reduction in insecure contract types over the last few years. Although many on these contracts welcome the flexibility, finding ways to mitigate or avoid the insecurity for others is necessary.
This chart explores the three contract types most commonly associated with insecure work. In 2018, there were around 1.57 million temporary employees, 0.43 million permanent agency workers, and 0.38 million permanent zero-hour contract workers. The total number of employees in potentially insecure contracts was 2.4 million people, representing 7% of the entire labour force.
In 2018, the number of permanents agency workers was 48% higher compared to the level recorded in 2011. The number of people working on permanent zero-hour contracts has increased even more rapidly. However, the growth between 2011 and 2015, at least partially, represented increasing awareness of the term and hence increased survey responses in the labour force survey.
Temporary contracts have declined from a 2014 high of 1.75m to 1.57m in 2018. Temporary agency workers and zero-hours contract types are included in this figure.
Not everyone on these contracts is experiencing insecurity, however. Many of those on temporary contracts or zero-hours contracts are doing so for their own reasons or do not actually experience hours that vary.
Insecure work captures all employees who work on a temporary basis and/or without guaranteed hours.
This indicator excludes self-employed people who may also experience an element of insecurity.
The permanent zero-hours contract category includes everyone on a zero-hours contract and not just those who state that it is their main work arrangement.
This estimate for zero-hours contracts is lower than other estimates, as many of those on zero-hours contracts are counted under the temporary or agency contracts category.
Source: Health Foundation analysis of the Labour Force Survey, ONS.
The number of people in involuntary insecure work has been falling. It declined from its peak of 1.2 million in 2012 to 0.9 million people in 2018.
This shows that the strong labour market performance experienced in recent years has helped to reduce the number of more insecure contracts highlighting the role a relatively strong labour market can have in providing workers with the opportunity to turn down insecure work.
The involuntary measure of insecure work captures temporary contract employees who couldn’t find a permanent role (433,000); self-employed people who wish to work more hours (401,000); and permanent employees on zero-hours contracts who wish to work more hours (63,000).
This stricter measure, even with the inclusion of the self-employed, shows relatively fewer people on contracts subject to insecurity. In 2018, the total number of people on these employment contracts was close to 900,000 which represents around 3% of the workforce.
The total number recorded in 2018 represents a 24% reduction relative to five years earlier. This improvement is mainly driven by a lower number of people in temporary employment who couldn’t find a permanent role.
Age: Younger adults are more likely to be in insecure work.
Ethnicity: Adults of Pakistani or Black ethnicity have the highest exposure to insecure work.
Region: The region with the highest proportion of people in involuntary insecure work was Yorkshire and the Humber (3.8%) and the lowest was the North West (3.1%).
Inequalities in health outcomes for different groups can be explained in part by inequalities in wider determinants such as insecure employment. Reducing health inequalities will require action on such wider determinants.
Certain ethnicity groups are disproportionately likely to be in involuntary insecure working patterns. Pakistani and Black ethnic backgrounds in particularly are more likely to be in one of these types of employment. 5.2% of people in these ethnic groups either want to work more hours or cannot find a permanent role. The groups with the lowest proportion of people in involuntary insecure work are Indian (2.2%) and White (2.6%).
Certain age groups are disproportionately likely to be in involuntary insecure working patterns. 4.1% of employed people between the ages of 16 and 24 either want to work more hours or cannot find a permanent role. The percentage is lowest for people aged 45-54, at 2.3%.
Policymakers should be concerned with ensuring that young adults do not get trapped in insecure employment through in-work training and development opportunities.
An individual’s probability of experiencing insecure employment can be related to where they live, suggesting the need for sufficiently resourced local strategies.
The highest prevalence of insecure working patterns was in Yorkshire and the Humber, the West Midlands, and Wales in 2017/18, although differences between the regions were relatively moderate.
The biggest improvements between 2012/13 and 2017/18 have been in the South East (-0.83ppt) and East of England (-0.77ppt), whereas the West Midlands (+0.09ppt), and Yorkshire and the Humber (+0.08ppt) have experienced no improvement over this time span.
The involuntary measure of insecure work captures temporary contract employees who couldn’t find a permanent role; self-employed people who wish to work more hours; and permanent employees on zero-hours contracts who wish to work more hours.
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‘Bring your eatin’ pants and your dancin’ shoes’
Willie’s Distillery 6th Annual Pig Pickin’ draws crowd of nearly 1,000
Reagan Colyer
news@madisoniannews.com
ENNIS - Ennis kicked off the month of June with a community-wide celebration of some of Montana’s favorite things: good food, good booze, good company and a good time.
Willie’s Distillery’s sixth annual Pig Pickin’ drew an enormous crowd from in and out of town that shut down much of Main Street on Saturday, June 2. The day began with the Water to Whiskey 5K, sponsored by the Yellowstone Adventure Race series, for those who wanted to burn some of their barbecue calories early.
The race’s title referred to its start and end points: The starting line was exactly on top of the water of the Madison River (in the center of the bridge, of course; no swimming required) and the finish line was the backyard of the distillery itself, where a big pig feast was just gearing up. The 5K drew more than 150 runners, the biggest field in its 23-year history.
History: symbiosis
The Pig Pickin’ has been an annual early summer event since Willie’s opened in December 2012. It began as a way to highlight the symbiotic relationship between the distillery and local pig farmers and offered a chance for community members to get a taste of the power of locals helping locals.
It works like this: After Willie’s distills the alcohol from various grains, there is waste grain —everything from corn and barley, to rye, oats and different combinations of all four of these grains, depending on what beverage was being crafted
“We end up with spent grains throughout this entire process, and we had the option of dumping them or giving them back,” says Denie Amberson, the events coordinator for the distillery. “So we give them back to local pig farms. The pigs love it, the farmers save money, and it helps us out.”
Often, Amberson says, distilleries have to pay to get their spent grains picked up and dumped, so this offered an easier and more beneficial opportunity.
In return for the help they get from Willie’s, the farmers wanted to give back to the community, and decided to do that in the form of a city-wide barbecue.
The rest is history.
Since the first Pig Pickin’ in spring of 2013, they’ve only gotten larger, adding new elements every year.
This year’s involved cornhole tournaments, live music from local bands Madison Range and Little Jane and the Pistol Whips, plus games and prizes in the form of four commemorative bottles of the distillery’s reserve bourbon and a ten-gallon Willie’s barrel.
Willie’s hyped the event on their Instagram page last week, advising guests to be “yeti to party,” in reference to their yeti mascot. “Bring your eating pants and your dancing shoes,” they wrote. And guests did both.
This year was one of the largest events yet. Perfect early-summer weather drew guests starting early in the day, and they enjoyed barbecued pork sandwiches, coleslaw, potato chips and beverages provided by Longbranch Saloon and of course, Willie’s itself.
Willie’s mascot the yeti made an appearance to join the festivities and take photos with guests, and a dance floor provided a space for revelers to dance into the evening.
“Everybody loves it,” says Amberson, who has been a part of eight pig roasts, including some of the later-added autumn events. “I think they look forward to it every single year.”
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Home > Kolkata > 3 killed, 28 injured in 3 separate accidents
3 killed, 28 injured in 3 separate accidents
Team MP15 Dec 2017 6:11 PM GMT
Kolkata: Three persons were killed and 28 others have been injured in three separate road accidents on Friday.
Tension broke out near Haldia in East Midnapore on Friday morning after an irate mob went on a rampage, ransacking a police kiosk following a road accident in which a school teacher was killed.
The mob also set the police kiosk on fire, complicating the situation further. Local residents also put up a road block with the body of the victim, alleging that traffic signals do not work properly, which often lead to road accidents. A huge contingent of police rushed to the spot to bring the situation under control.
Senior police officers also rushed to the spot and tried to pacify the mob. The latter, however, seemed unmoved by the appeals of the senior police officers. A quarrel also broke out when some local residents staged a protest demonstration in front of the police officers, holding them responsible for Friday's accident.
A police picket has been installed at the accident site as tension was prevailing in the area. The accident took place at the Radhamani bus stop area on National Highway 41 connecting Haldia with Mecheda.
The victim has been identified as Tuhin Bhattacharya (45), who was trying to cross the road when a speeding bus knocked him down. A teacher of Raghunathbari High School, Bhattacharya was crushed under the rear wheels of the bus.
Local residents rushed to the spot and found the victim lying dead. They started a road block with the body, leading to a complete shutdown of traffic movement. The bus driver fled from the spot along with the vehicle, immediately after the accident.
In the second incident, two persons have been killed and eight others injured on early Friday morning when a truck they were travelling in overturned after being hit by a speeding bus at Roypur area under Malda police station. Two of the injured persons are stated to be in critical condition.
Police said that the victims were carrying paddy in the truck on Thursday when a tyre of the bus got punctured and it hit the truck coming from the opposite direction. The truck driver applied sudden brake, resulting in the overturn of the vehicle. Local residents rushed the injured victims to a nearby hospital where two were declared brought dead.
In the third accident, 20 people who were travelling in a bus along the Panskura-Ghatal Road received injury, some of them critically, when the bus rammed into a truck from behind after its driver applied emergency brake to save a cyclist who came in-front of the truck.
The accident took place at around 11 am on Friday. Police said that the truck was going to Panskura. The truck driver had applied sudden brake when he saw a cyclist come in front. The truck stopped with a jerk but the bus which was coming behind it, lost its control and hit the truck.
Local residents rescued the injured passengers and rushed them to a hospital in Panskura where many of the victims were undergoing treatment. Police recovered the two vehicles after the accident. There was a traffic jam in the area for an hour but the situation was soon brought under control by the police and traffic movement resumed.
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47. Daniliškės Village (19 cent.)
In the western part of Trakai Historical National Park, eight kilometres from Trakai in the territory of the Kudrionys Landscape Reserve is the village of Daniliškės, which was founded after the Hide Reforms begun by Grand Duke - King Sigismund Augustus (1544/1548-72).
In 1653-66 Patriarch Nikon of Moscow declared Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich to be head of the Church and set about removing variations from church books and the liturgy. Those who preferred to maintain the old ways broke away and became known as "Old Believers". To avoid persecution they fled to Siberia while others sought refuge in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania where they formed the "no-priest" sector known as bezpopovtsy or pomortsy. In 1822 documents we read that Old Believers were already living on the Römer estates near Trakai. Their community in Daniliškės numbered 116 souls. Daniliškės is a small strip village of 17 small-holdings. The dwelling houses face the street with their end facade and the outbuildings are further into the plot and plots are joined together in one row lengthwise. During the land reform in the republic of Lithuania between the world wars, after 1939 the village was divided into 24 plots and besides these are four single small-holdings that are referred to as the "colonies". One of the thirteen surviving Old Believer churches in Lithuania is in the middle of the village of Daniliškės. It was built in 1817 and rebuilt in 1926-31. It includes a spacious worship space and rooms where the priest's family used to live. The Daniliškės church served Old believer communities living around Onuškis and Stakliškės too. The village is dying out but it holds a very important place in the life of Lithuania's Old Believers because members of the Church come from all over Lithuania to worship in this church.
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When Hippo Was Hairy By Nick Greaves
Thirty-six tribal stories from Africa about the animals that occupy the plains and forests, bringing to life Africa's rich heritage of folklore and mythology. Includes brief fact-files for all the animals described. Illustrated by Rod Clement.
ISBN-10: 0718828224 ISBN-13: 9780718828226 Specifications: 220x172mm, 144pp, Paperback with colour and b&w illustrations
Publication: October 1990
When Hippo Was Hairy is just one of the thirty-six fascinating stories about African animals in this imaginative book. The folklore and mythology of the African people have been handed down by word of mouth through generations of tribal life. In a land which, until very recently, teemed with the richest wildlife in the world, people and animals lived for centuries in close proximity to one another, and came to know and understand each other intimately. African folk tales reflect this special relationship.
Nick Greaves, who lives in Zimbabwe, has studied the traditional animal stories of different tribes from many parts of the continent. In this book he records some of the best. There are tales about Lion, Cheetah, Hyena, Elephant, and many others. Some are humorous, some sad, but all make compelling reading. Not only do they preserve for all time Africa's animal folklore, they also provide a fascinating, vivid, exciting picture of a land and its people.
Each animal has been painted in brilliant detail and colourful, realistic style by Rod Clement, and nearly every story is illustrated by his lively sketches. After the stories about each animal, there is factual information about the animal’s habits, lifespan, size, gestation period and other useful and interesting details. This is complemented by a map of Africa showing where the animal still lives today.
This is a unique book of stories, paintings and facts about one of the world's great heritages - the wildlife of Africa - presented in a way that will entertain all ages and tastes and, hopefully, help to preserve that heritage too.
To view samples from the book and buy click here
Nick Greaves was born and educated in England, where he studied geology and environmental sciences before leaving to work in southern Africa. His work as a geologist took him to many of the remote and unspoiled regions of south Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. There he developed a lasting fascination for the wildlife and its varied, often fragile habitat.
Rod Clement was born in 1961 and has lived in Papua New Guinea, as well as his native Australia where he now lives on the north coast of New South Wales. He has illustrated many children’s books, and has won many awards for his portraits.
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September 2014: ISSN 1675.5464
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NIOSH To Work With Govt In Reducing Road Accidents
KUCHING: The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) will soon work with other relevant government departments and agencies to find ways the country could reduce the alarming number of commuting accidents.
NIOSH chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said the number of commuting accidents over the years was gradually increasing and something has to be done about it.
“Last year alone the total number of commuting accidents reported to the Social Security Organisation (Socso) was 22,040 which constituted almost 39 per cent of the total number of industrial accidents reported to Socso,” he said.
He explained that commuting accidents were those involving employees on their way to and back from their workplace, when they were out for lunch break or travelling from one point to the other as required by their scope of duty.
“It comes under traffic case but because it involves employees we also regard it as one of the occupational safety and health problems. Therefore being a body that has been tasked to promote occupational safety and health awareness in the country we feel that something has to be done about this.
“Probably in a few months’ time we will sit down together with other relevant authorities to work out how we can minimise the number of commuting accidents.”
He was speaking to reporters at a news conference after opening the two-day Borneo Conference of Occupational Safety and Health (BOSH) at Pullman Hotel here yesterday.
Earlier, Lee said that in the global economy, occupational safety and health issues were among the key determinants to a company’s competitiveness through productivity enhancement and efficiency.
“Observations and evidence had shown that an increase in productivity and improvement in workplace environment are the results of good safety and health work practices and the adoption of a work safety culture.
“OSH (Occupational Safety and Health) must therefore be treated as an investment and not an expense and this is in line with the maxim that safety is a good business,” he noted.
As such, he said, all the top management level of any company should not just make occupational safety and health their topmost priority but instead make it their culture.
He said poor OSH performance has a negative impact particularly for small and medium enterprises.
“The human and business costs of workplace accidents and fatalities and ill health are immense. It will not only disrupt the day-to-day operation of the enterprises concerned but may also lead to the loss of lives and other financial losses,” he added.
He pointed out that everyone must commit themselves to foster and promote a common preventive safety and health culture that would become a fundamental basis for improving OSH performance in this era of rapid development and globalisation.
“Nurturing and maintaining a preventive safety and health culture requires making use of all available means to increase general awareness, knowledge and understanding of the concepts of hazards and risks and how they may be prevented or controlled.
“However, while the government can put the necessary legislative framework in place, employers and employees themselves must play their part to ensure that their organisations accord the highest priority and commitment to building a safety culture at all levels.”
He said that only by working together would they achieve the high safety and health standards aspired.
Lee stated that although the number of accidents at workplaces had shown a significant reduction since the introduction of OSHA in 1994 that did not mean that there was room for complacency.
“According to the statistics compiled by the Ministry of Human Resources, the number of industrial accidents reported to Socso and the Labour Department for all sectors decreased from 75,386 in 2000 to 35,616 in 2010. This is a substantial reduction of over 52.7 per cent over a period of 10 years.”
“However, although there is a decline in the average number of industrial accidents from eight per 1,000 workers in 2000 to 4.8 in 2010, we should strive against the benchmark of developed countries which only have one to two accidents per 1,000 workers,” he commented.
BOSH is a biannual event created to promote OSH awareness particularly in the Borneo region and the country as a whole with the first conference being organised in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah in 2009.
Among those present at the occasion yesterday were NIOSH executive director Rosli Hussin, State Occupational Safety and Health Department (DOSH) director Dasuki Mohd Heak, State Labour Department director August Buma and Sarawak Socso director John Riba Marin.
Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/12/06/niosh-to-work-with-govt-in-reducing-road-accidents/#ixzz1gyKTjHJX
Sunday, 16 September 2012 09:32
Workplace Safety Conference In September
Publication: NST
Date of publication: May 16, 2012
Section heading: Main Section
KUALA LUMPUR: In a bid to reduce industrial accidents and fatalities in the country, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is organising a conference and exhibition on occupational safety and health.
NIOSH chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said creating a safe work environment required fundamental changes in the way work spaces were designed and personnel were deployed.
"These changes require leadership capable of transforming the beliefs and practices of those who create the risk and those who work with the risk," Lee said.
He said safety briefings were vital and should not only be a part of events that talk about safety.
"Such briefings must be given at all functions, be it a government or private sector.
"Even a wedding dinner should start with a safety briefing. What would be the reaction in case a fire breaks out in a hall filled with people?" he asked.
Lee said the thinking that "safety should be a priority" should be turned into "safety should be a way of life".
The conference will be held at the Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre in Petaling Jaya from Sept 2 to 4.
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Library Treaties Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace, November 12, 1984
Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace
G.A. res. 39/11, annex
39 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 51) at 22
U.N. Doc. A/39/51 (1984).
Approved by the General Assembly November 12, 1984
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that the principal aim of the United Nations is the maintenance of international peace and security,
Bearing in mind the fundamental principles of international law set forth in the Charter of the United Nations,
Expressing the will and the aspirations of all peoples to eradicate war from the life of mankind and, above all, to avert a world-wide nuclear catastrophe,
Convinced that life without war serves as the primary international prerequisite for the material well-being, development and progress of countries, and for the full implementation of the rights and fundamental human freedoms proclaimed by the United Nations,
Aware that in the nuclear age the establishment of a lasting peace on Earth represents the primary condition for the preservation of human civilization and the survival of mankind,
Recognizing that the maintenance of a peaceful life for peoples is the sacred duty of each State,
1. Solemnly proclaims that the peoples of our planet have a sacred right to peace;
2. Solemnly declares that the preservation of the right of peoples to peace and the promotion of its implementation constitute a fundamental obligation of each State;
3. Emphasizes that ensuring the exercise of the right of peoples to peace demands that the policies of States be directed towards the elimination of the threat of war, particularly nuclear war, the renunciation of the use of force in international relations and the settlement of international disputes by peaceful means on the basis of the Charter of the United Nations;
4. Appeals to all States and international organizations to do their utmost to assist in implementing the right of peoples to peace through the adoption of appropriate measures at both the national and the international level.
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Logo Renews 'Finding Prince Charming' For Second Season
Logo has renewed Finding Prince Charming, the reality series dubbed “the gay Bachelor.”
According to Deadline Hollywood, the series will have a second season.
Season one was hosted by out singer Lance Bass and featured 13 men competing for the heart of Robert Sepulveda, Jr., described by producers as one of the “nation's most eligible gay heartthrobs.”
The search for next year's “gay heartthrob” has already started.
Producers have also turned to social media to find one of the suitors. From Thursday, November 3 to Wednesday, November 16 men can upload their photos or videos to Instagram and Twitter with a hashtag. Fans will vote from the top potential suitors on Thursday, November 17.
Finding Prince Charming has been a hit for Logo, reaching more than 3 million viewers across all platforms.
(Related: Lance Bass calls hosting Finding Prince Charming a dream come true.)
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Australia bushfires (Jan. 2020)
AU$200,000
Typhoon Hagibis (Oct. 2019)
¥10,000,000
Cyclone Idai (Mar. 2019 in Mozambique)
Earthquake on Sulawesi Island in Central Indonesia (Oct. 2018)
IDR 500,000,000
Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake (Sep. 2018)
Torrential Rains in July 2018 (Jul. 2018)
Mexico Earthquake (Sep. 2017)
Hurricane Harvey (Sep. 2017)
Torrential Rains in Northern Kyushu (Jul. 2017)
Peru Floods (Apr. 2017)
Kumamoto Earthquake (Apr. 2016)
Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) Response
We remember all those who have passed away because of COVID-19, and would like to express our heartfelt sympathy to those stricken by the disease. Through its offices, affiliates, foundations, and other entities throughout the world, Mitsui & Co. is supporting measures to combat COVID-19.
We have made donations of both money and medical supplies to medical facilities and practitioners in the Kanto and Kansai regions and Hokkaido, all of which are doing so much to combat COVID-19. Furthermore, with the support and cooperation of our business partners and affiliates, we have also donated box lunches, drinks, snacks, and other goods.
When a state of emergency was declared in Japan, 170 volunteers came together at our employees’ own initiative and procured face shields from our affiliate Fictiv Inc., with its support, and delivered those to the Tokyo Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health. Triggered by this activity many people started wondering if there was anything that they could do to contribute as individuals. In response to a growing call for such initiatives, an in-house crowdfunding site was launched as a place to connect the circle of support by volunteers. The site matches employees who have concrete support proposals with employees who want to make donations, and this has resulted in nine support activities. We have also promoted various efforts that leverage the ideas of Mitsui & Co. employees and its global network, such as holding online English classes for the children of medical practitioners.
In the US, we have provided support through our overseas trading subsidiaries and foundations. Mitsui USA participated in a project that provides free Japanese box lunches to frontline workers at medical facilities in New York City in collaboration with the Nippon Club and Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York. In addition, the Mitsui USA Foundation launched a total of US$100,000 (approximately 11 million yen)*1 in COVID-19 Community Relief Grants to support various frontline food banks, shelters and other non-profit organizations and funds that are providing relief to people and communities in vulnerable situations because of COVID-19.
In Brazil, through the Mitsui Bussan do Brasil Foundation, we cooperated with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Mitsui & Co. group company SuperVia to donate sanitary products to approximately 10,000 people in 2,345 households in low-income communities along the Rio de Janeiro railway.
In Argentina, Mitsui & Co. (Argentina) donated 700,000 Argentine pesos (approximately 1.1 million yen)*2 to the City of Buenos Aires out of consideration of the pandemic’s impact on the domestic economy.
In Italy, Mitsui & Co. Italia made a contribution of 30,000 euros (approximately 3.6 million yen)*3 to the Italian Civil Protection Department in response to the spread of the pandemic.
In China, we donated masks, protective gear, etc. to prevent infections to our affiliates, customers, and others during the initial spread of infections.
As for India, Mitsui & Co. has invested and participated in OMC Power Private Limited, a company that supplies power to people living in unelectrified areas. Through the company, we donated 3,000 food packs to local people whose lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Calculated assuming the exchange rates below:
*1 Exchange rate of 105 yen to the US dollar.
*2 Exchange rate of 1.5 yen to the Argentine peso
*3 Exchange rate of 120 yen to the euro
Initiatives Launched since the Kumamoto Earthquake to Support Local Communities
Mitsui & Co. has continuously engaged in disaster support activities based on local needs, ever since we first offered support for the recovery of regions devastated by the Kumamoto Earthquake in April 2016.
In June 2016, the Kyushu Office led the launch of disaster volunteer activities. With the cooperation of Mitsui & Co. group companies, our supporting network has expanded, and we have now entered the sixth year of such activities. During this period, Kyushu has been hit many times by flooding disasters caused by heavy rains.
Actually visiting the disaster-stricken areas in person to carry out volunteer activities has given the participating officers and employees a real sense of the importance of building closer relationships at the local level and providing continuous support.
Furthermore, we decided to grant subsidies of 7 million yen for a period of three years from 2017 through the Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund to an NGO that engages in mid- to long-term reconstruction assistance.
Mitsui & Co. values every opportunity for employees to contribute to the local community and society. In addition, we have set local contribution as one of the priority areas of our social contribution activities, and we aim to continue to "enhance quality of life" in partnership with local communities.
Examples of main activities
At the disaster sites of the Kumamoto Earthquake, we worked to remove debris, blocks, etc., and assisted moving furniture from damaged houses.
At Minamiaso Village in Kumamoto Prefecture, we provided support to transport waste materials and sort unusable items, etc.
At Asakura City in Fukuoka Prefecture, which suffered terrible destruction from heavy rains in Northern Kyushu, we helped to clean household possessions that had been ruined by the floods and clear away the dirt and driftwood that had accumulated.
Asakura City in Fukuoka Prefecture was struck by heavy rains for the second time in the West Japan area. We provided assistance to clear away accumulated dirt, etc.
At Kinryumachi in Saga City, which was severely impacted by heavy rains in Northern Kyushu and Saga Prefecture, we helped dig out water channels and clear away accumulated dirt, etc.
At Omuta City in Fukuoka Prefecture, which was damaged by flooding caused by heavy rains in July 2020, we filled around 1,700 sandbags as part of the flood defense.
Filling sandbags
Disinfecting homes
A total of 1,700 sandbags were filled.
Our Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake
Basic Policy on Disaster Recovery
One-Mitsui Social Contribution Activities in Brazil: Regional Support in Preventing the Spread of COVID-19
Mitsui to Support Medical Staff at the Forefront of the Battle against the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic With Food (2)
Mitsui to Support Medical Staff at the Forefront of the Battle against the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic With Food
Our Approach towards Social Contribution Activities
The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund
Employee Participation Activities
Disaster Relief Activities
Activities by Region
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ZombiU: The return of true survival-horror gameplay
Reviews / Wii U / by Jeff deSolla /
Recently, with the exception of some very well done indie titles, the survival-horror genre has slowly but surely gravitated towards the action-shooter, in the hopes of appealing to a wider audience. While some games made the shift well, others have found themselves trapped in between, and left the true survival-horror niche tragically unfilled. The typical zombie has been relegated to a bit role, with many designers focusing more on the combat than the survival aspects of their games. Due to that necessity, the shambling undead zombie has been cast aside, in favor of faster enemies that better fit a faster-paced game.
With ZombiU, Ubisoft has addressed this concern, and given us a true survival horror zombie game, restoring the common zombie as something to be feared. As one of the few real M-rated Wii U launch titles (and the only one that isn’t a port), it offers both interesting use of the new hardware and a true survival horror experience. It combines jump scares with other elements, building a great horror game that moves away from what you would expect. ZombiU doesn’t have co-op, and this only adds to the feeling of being alone. Another thing I noticed? Difficulty. This game is hard, though it is pretty fair about it. Above all, ZombiU punishes impatience and impulsive actions. Taking your time and thinking before you act help immensely. The difficulty is higher than I expected for a launch title on a Nintendo console, but it is a welcome change.
Adding to the difficulty is the penalty for failure. In ZombiU, you are not an individual protagonist, but the surviving population of London following a zombie outbreak. Your character’s death, or infection, will result in choosing another survivor to control. The inventory of your fallen survivor still exists, though you have to fight a zombified version of your former self to claim it. This is a mechanic that is inspired by From Software’s Souls games, known for their difficulty. Another aspect to keep in mind, is that the fallen zombified survivors of your Miiverse friends can also be present in your game, if you are connected while playing.
Another core aspect is inventory management. Something much more common in older horror games, it leads to many tough decisions that have to be made quickly. In ZombiU, managing your inventory, and wisely using what you have available, can be the difference between life and death. Important to remember: digging around in your inventory does not count as a pause. If zombies are coming, they won’t stop while you switch weapons. For this reason it is important to find a safe place to look through your bag.
ZombiU is also the best combination of TV and GamePad screen on the system so far. While the GamePad is often used for things like inventory and entering passwords, it is also used to look behind you, and as a zoom function when held in front of the TV. Ubisoft has clearly learned from Wii, though, that new features can be overused; these features all feel like they make sense, and aren’t simply shoved in just because they wanted to do it. For example, you can use the GamePad movement to aim,or you can opt to just use analog sticks.
ZombiU does have a few flaws, though for a launch title, many of them are fairly minor. The shooting controls are a little off, but the game’s limited ammunition makes this less of a concern, as I find myself favoring melee whenever possible. The multiplayer portion pits four players against the GamePad user, which seems to be a recurring theme on the system. The GamePad places zombies for the other four to overcome, and while it’s an interesting idea, the core mechanics don’t convert very well to this multiplayer mode.
With ZombiU, we have finally gotten the survival-horror game many fans have been asking for, and not just another third-person shooter. ZombiU is definitely not another Red Steel, and what I hope is the first of many third party successes on the Wii U. It is well worth looking past the gimmicky name, because this is a game that will deliver a great experience that capitalizes on the strengths of the new hardware.
Pros: Truly scary experience, good use of hardware
Cons: Motion control is a bit shaky, multiplayer doesn’t have much replay value
Questions? Check out our review guide.
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Contributors Issue 12
Contributors Issue 9
Inaugural Issue
Issues 2-10
Meena Alexander was born in India and brought up there and in Sudan. Birthplace with Buried Stones (TriQuarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press, 2013 ) is her seventh book of poetry. Her poems have been translated and set to music — “Impossible Grace,” the lyric base of the First Al Quds Music Award was performed in Jerusalem and the poem “Acqua Alta, ” was set to music by Jan Sandstrom for the Serikon Music Group’s climate change project in Sweden. She has received awards from the Guggenheim, Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundations. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNY. meenaalexander.com
Kazim Ali’s books include four volumes of poetry, The Far Mosque, The Fortieth Day, the mixed genre Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities and Sky Ward. He has also published two novels Quinn’s Passage and The Disappearance of Seth, two collections of essays, Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice, and translations of Sohrab Sepehri, Marguerite Duras and Ananda Devi. His poems and essays have appeared widely in such journals as American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. He is contributing editor of AWP Writers Chronicle, associate editor of Field, and founding editor of Nightboat Books. He is an associate professor of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College and has served as visiting writer at many colleges and universities.
Joyce Ashuntantang was born in Kumba Town, Cameroon. She is presently an Associate Professor of English at University of Hartford, Connecticut. An actress, poet, screenwriter and filmmaker, she is the author of several important texts including Landscaping Postcoloniality: the Dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon Literature (2009) and A Basket of Flaming Ashes (2010). She earned a B.A in Modern English Studies from the University of Yaoundé, a Masters in Librarianship from the University of Wales, U.K., and a PhD in English from the City University of New York. She is the CEO/founder of EduART INC; a non-profit organization created to promote art as a medium for social change. She blogs her world at www.joyceash.com.
And Introducing…Will Barnes teaches middle school science and language arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His manuscript about text, memory and landscape in the west is called The Ledgerbook. Poems from this collection have been published in the CutBank Review, the Eleventh Muse, the Anthology for the Academy of American Poets Prize, and Taos Journal of Poetry & Art.
Cyrus Cassells’ The Crossed-Out Swastika was recently named a finalist for the Balcones Prize for the Best Poetry Book of 2012. His sixth book, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo (Copper Canyon) and Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas are forthcoming. His translations of Catalan and Italian poetry and prose have appeared in several journals and magazines.
Lenny Foster’s photography career began in 1993 after a trip to the Southwest. Foster’s photography hangs in many private collections, the Harwood Museum in Taos, N.M., the Albuquerque Museum, and in the permanent collection at the Muhammed Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Foster was honored as a Taos Living Master by the Taos Fall Arts Committee in 2007, and in 2010 Lenny’s image, The Spirit of Bandelier won The Patsy Schumacher Best of Show Award at the Taos Fall Arts Festival. Lenny Foster’s work can be seen at Living Light Photography Studio/Gallery, Taos, N.M.
Veronica Golos is co-editor of Taos Journal of Poetry & Art.
Lucy Bryan Green is a fiction and nonfiction writer and lecturer in English at Pennsylvania State University. Her book reviews, short fiction, and creative essays have appeared or will soon appear in Superstition Review, So to Speak, Orion Headless, Sojourners, Word Riot, Rain Taxi Review of Books, The Georgia Review, Cold Front, New Letters, Green Mountains Review, among others. Some of her reviews can be accessed at the following links: – http://www.newletters.org/WEB%20files%2077%20/WEB_Green%20Review.pdf – http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2011spring/bradfield.shtml – http://coldfrontmag.com/tag/lucy-bryan-green
Richard Greenfield is the author of Tracer (Omnidawn 2009) and A Carnage in the Lovetrees (University of California Press, 2003), which was named a Book Sense Top University Press pick. He earned a BS in Arts & Letters (in English & Philosophy) from Portland State University (1996), an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana (1999), and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver (2005), where he was a Frankel Fellow. He was a visiting writer at Brown University (2006) and a Bates College Learning Associate (2010). Since 2009, he has been a professor of creative writing and poetry at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. With Mark Tursi, he is a founding editor of Apostrophe Books, a small press of poetry, which began publishing books in 2007.
Trained as an architect at Baghdad University, Iraqi poet Naseer Hassan currently makes his living as an award-winning journalist, producing cultural programming on Radio Free Iraq. He has published four poetry collections in Arabic, The Circle of Sundial (1998), Suggested Signs (2007), Being Here (2008), and Dayplaces (2010). His collected poems were published in 2010 by the Arabic House for Publishing in Beirut. In 2011, he was a Resident at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. He is an active translator, primarily of poems and philosophical texts, including both European and Asian philosophies.
Phyllis Hotch’s books include three poetry collections, A Little Book of Lies, No Longer Time, and her most recent, 3 A.M., published by 3: A Taos Press. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Threepenny Review, Women’s Review of Books, Visions International, and Chokecherries. She has been awarded the Senior Poet Laureate Prize, 2011 Wildwood Poetry Prize, Recursos Discovery Prize, and Passager Poetry Prize. After moving from Massachusetts to Taos in the late 80’s, she served as president and board member of SOMOS and organized a Taos chapter of PEN.
Jeffrey Levine is the author of two books of poetry: Rumor of Cortez, nominated for a 2006 Los Angeles Times Literary Award in Poetry, and Mortal, Everlasting, which won the 2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize. His many poetry prizes include the Larry Levis Prize from the Missouri Review, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Ekphrasis Poetry Prize, and the 2007 American Literary Review poetry prize. Levine is founder, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Tupelo Press, an award-winning independent literary press. In addition, he serves on the core faculty of the Colrain Manuscript Conferences and is founder of Tupelo Press Seminars. Blog: www.jeffreyelevine.com Website: www.tupelopress.org
Kaylee Lockett is an Oklahoma City native. She has studied writing at Classen School of Advanced Studies and the Oklahoma Arts Institute and intends to pursue an English degree. Kaylee is an active writer, blogger, dancer and lover of the earth.
Sarah Maclay is the author of Music for the Black Room, The White Bride and Whore (all, U of Tampa), as well as three limited edition chapbooks. In 2013, The Huffington Post shortlisted her as one of five American poets to watch. Her poems and criticism have appeared in APR, Ploughshares, FIELD, The Writer’s Chronicle, Poetry Daily, VerseDaily, The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to the Present, Poetry International, where she serves as Book Review Editor, and numerous other journals. Her short stage piece Fugue States Coming Down the Hall was anthologized in Scenarios: Scripts to Perform. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Special Mention, a 2009 Grisham fellowship, and the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing and literature at Loyola Marymount University and conducts workshops at The Ruskin Art Club and Beyond Baroque. www.sarahmaclay.com (photo credit: Holaday Mason & D. H. Dowling)
Djelloul Marbrook is the author of two poetry books, Far from Algiers (2008, Kent State University Press, winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry) and Brushstrokes and Glances (2010, Deerbrook Editions). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Orbis (UK), From the Fishouse, Oberon, The Same, Reed, Fledgling Rag, Poets Against the War, Poemeleon, Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology, Atticus Review, Taos Journal of Poetry & Art, and Daylight Burglary, among others. The latest of his four books of fiction is Guest Boy (2012, Mira Publishing House CLC, Leeds, UK), to be followed by the rest of the trilogy in 2014. A retired newspaper editor and U.S. Navy veteran, he lives in New York’s mid-Hudson valley with his wife Marilyn. (photo credit: Jim Smith)
Valerie Martínez is a poet, translator, teacher, playwright, librettist, and collaborative artist. Her award-winning books include Absence, Luminescent, World to World, A Flock of Scarlet Doves, Each and Her, And They Called It Horizon and This is How It Began. Her most recent book, Each and Her (winner of the 2012 Arizona Book Award), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the William Carlos William Award, and the Ron Ridenhour Prize. Her work has been widely published in The Best American Poetry, the Washington Post, and the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere series. Valerie has more than twenty years of experience as a teacher, primarily at the college level. She is Executive Director of Littleglobe, Inc., a non-profit collaborative of artists who create works of art about issues of urgency, including climate change. She was the Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico for 2008-2010. www.valeriemartinez.net
Carol Moldaw’s most recent book is So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems (2010). She is the author of four other books of poetry, including The Lightning Field, which won the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize, as well as a novel, The Widening. She lives outside of Santa Fe with her husband and daughter and teaches privately. www.carolmoldaw.com.
Sawnie Morris has received a Poetry Society of America Award and been co-winner of the New Mexico Book Award for her chapbook The Sound a Raven Makes. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, drunkenboat.com, The Journal, and other magazines. Her prose on poetry has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Boston Review. Her full-length collection of poems has been finalist most recently for the 2013 New Issues Press Award. She is Curator of Art & Activism at Amigos Bravos: Because Water Matters, a 25 year old non-profit advocacy organization for New Mexico’s waters.
The author of fifteen volumes of poetry, Francesc Parcerisas, born in 1944, is Catalan Spain’s most lauded contemporary poet. He is also revered for translating into Catalan a staggering array of English language classics, including Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. (photo credit of Parcerisas and Cassells: Margo Berdeshevsky)
Wang Ping was born in Shanghai. She is the founder of the Kinship of Rivers Project. Her numerous publications include Of Flesh and Spirit, The Magic Whip, The Last Communist Virgin, all from Coffee House Press; New Generation: Poetry from China Today; Flash Cards: Poems by Yu Jian, co-translation with Ron Padgett; Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China won the Eugene Kayden Award for the Best Book in Humanities. The Last Communist Virgin won 2008 Minnesota Book Award and Asian American Studies Award. She is the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council of the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bush Artist Fellowship, Lannan Foundation Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. www.wangping.com;www.behindthegateexhibit.wangping.com; www.kinshipofrivers.org
Joan Roberta Ryan is a writer living in Taos, New Mexico where she indulges her passions for reading and writing poetry, skiing, hiking, and cooking Mediterranean foods. Formerly, she ran her own direct marketing agency in Philadelphia, handled advertising and publicity for New York publishers and studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Her recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, Roanoke Review, Off the Coast, Concho River Review, Prick of the Spindle and other venues.
Mirabai Starr is a critically acclaimed author and translator of sacred literature. She teaches and speaks widely on contemplative practice, interspiritual experience, and the transformational power of loss. Her works include Dark Night of the Soul by John of the Cross, The Interior Castle and The Book of My Life, by Teresa of Avila and The Showings of Julian of Norwich, Mother of God Similar to Fire (in collaboration with iconographer, William Hart McNichols) and Contemplations, Prayers, and Living Wisdom (Sounds True). GOD OF LOVE: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, positions her at the forefront of the emerging Interspiritual Movement. (photo credit: Lisa Law)
Catherine Strisik is co-editor of Taos Journal of Poetry & Art.
Mervyn Taylor is a Trinidad-born poet who divides his time between Brooklyn, New York and his island home. He has taught at Bronx Community College, The New School, and in the New York City public school system. His work has appeared in such journals as Poetry International, American Letters & Commentary, The Same, St. Ann’s Review, Sulfur, Rattapallax, and in the anthologies Chance of A Ghost and The American Voice in Poetry. He is the author of four volumes of poetry: An Island of His Own, The Goat, and Gone Away, all from Junction Press, and No Back Door (Shearsman Books, 2010), for which he received the Paterson award. About Taylor’s poems Derek Walcott has observed, “The sense of search, of the avoidance of flash, mutes his meters to an admirable degree, and the tone, which he found remarkably early, keeps him separate and unique.”
Leslie Ullman is the author of three previous poetry collections and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her most recent collection, Progress on the Subject of Immensity, is published by University of New Mexico Press. A former creative writing professor at University of Texas-El Paso, she now lives in Taos and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts. She also works as a ski instructor at Taos Ski Valley. Her poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, and her most recent essay, “A Spiral Walk Around the Golden Mean,” will appear in the October issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. www.leslieullman.com. (photo credit: Michele Potter)
Political activist and wilderness advocate, Pam Uschuk has howled out six books of poems, including Crazy Love, winner of a 2010 American Book Award, and Wild in the Plaza of Memory. Translated into a dozen languages, her work appears in over three hundred journals and anthologies worldwide. Uschuk has been awarded the 2011 War Poetry Prize from Winning Writers, 2010 New Millenium Poetry Prize, 2010 Best of the Web, Struga Poetry Prize (for a theme poem), Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, and prizes from Ascent and Amnesty International. Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Fort Lewis College. Editor-In-Chief of Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, Uschuk lives in Bayfield, Colorado and Tucson, Arizona. Uschuk was featured at the 2013 Prague Summer Programs and was the 2011 John C. Hodges Visiting Writer at UT, Knoxville. She’s working on a multi-genre book of healers and healing.
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Men’s U19 Program brings Development Team to Golden Gate Cup
Photo credit: Adam Troy The Men’s U19 National Team is pleased to report that nine players have signed up to participate as a Development Team at the 2021 Golden Gate Cup...
Men’s Under-19 Development Team Moves Forward to Golden Gate Cup!
The Men’s U19 Development Team competed last weekend at Birmingham in the US National Championships, marking the first step on our way to 2023 in Frederikshavn, Denmark. We participated in the...
US Nationals News: A Fourth Youth Team Added!
Photo: Adam Troy We are pleased to report that a fourth youth team has joined the tournament for this weekend’s US National Championships, part of the 2019 State Games of America. ...
US Nationals Schedule and Pools Released!
EDIT: Schedule adjusted for a fourth youth team! See below for changes. The tournament committee from the North Texas Floorball Association has released the schedule and pool assignments for the US...
US Beaten by Canada in Final WFC Match
Photo: Adam Troy There just wasn’t enough gas left in the tank. After the exciting win against Japan on Friday night, the United States was guaranteed to finish higher than any...
US Triumphs Over Japan on Last-Second Shot
Photo by Adam Troy The United States defeated Japan 7-6 tonight in an epic floorball game that will probably go unnoticed by most of the floorball world. The programs are low-ranked...
Russia Defeats Team USA 8-4 at WFC
Photo by Adam Troy The United States Men’s Under-19 Team met Team Russia on Thursday at the Dalplex Fieldhouse in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This was the second game of their Group...
USA Falls to Poland 10-3 at WFC
Photo: Adam Troy The United States opened their 2019 Men’s Under-19 World Floorball Championships campaign with a Group C match against Poland. Poland, the eighth-ranked team in the world and relegated...
Game Recap: USA vs. NZL
The US Men’s U19 team played New Zealand yesterday in an international friendly is a warm-up to the World Floorball Championships (WFC) this week in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The United States...
USA Floorball Announces the Roster for the 2019 Men’s U19 World Floorball Championships
USA Floorball is proud to announce the roster for the upcoming Men’s Under-19 World Floorball Championships (WFC). The WFC will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada next month, from May...
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Shut in Movie reorganises business and gives the website a major facelift
Shut in Movie has come up with the idea of reorganising the business as they have invested in rebranding and the site has got a major facelift. They are talking of the top movies that are likely to take 2022 by storm.
California – Shut in Movie is one site that talks about only movies and is the go to choice for all movie buff. The site recently announced that they have got a major facelift and are looking at rebranding and reorganising themselves so that they could stay put with the current standards.
One of the key spokesmen of the site was quoted as saying, “We wanted to put up an impressive show and this is why we decided to rework on our site so that we could project the right image. We now have a separate dedicated list of the best movies that are going to be launched in 2022 and this is going to be a really impressive list.”
The site speaks of the best of 2022 movies that will take the audience by storm. Owing to the pandemic, movie theatres have witnessed a great deal of losses and now they seem to be slowly getting back on track. It is likely that in the near future, these movies will bring back the audience, should the pandemic not ruin everything again.
Some of the names worth mentioning include black panther, Tom Cruise starter Top Gun: Maverick, Mission Impossible 7, John Wick: chapter 4 and a whole lot more. Almost each of these movies is likely to be a huge blockbuster and it is very likely to bring in audience in huge numbers because there is a lot of hype for all these instalments of the movie series.
Those who would like to see through the whole list and find more about the top movies likely to hit the theatres in the year to come should make it a point to visit www.shutinmovie.com
About Shut in Movie
Shut in Movie is one of the top websites for those who are on the lookout to find the best ways by which they can read about the top movies and more. One can find a streamlined and consolidated list of the movies likely to hit the theatres in 2022.
Company Name: Shut In Movie
Contact Person: Gerald
Website: https://shutinmovie.com/
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"Reaper" Shoots Up Gastown, October 30...
Thanks to Will Fearn location manager for Kevin Smith's Vancouver-shot, horror-comedy TV series "Reaper", we can tell you that exterior street scenes for a new episode will be filmed in Gastown @ 227 Carrall St, Tuesday, October 30, 8 PM to 1 AM.
Filming will include dialogue between actors, walking through 'Gassy Jack Square', around the corner from 'Blood Alley'.
"Based on the positive results of a poll we conducted," said Fearn, "...the City of Vancouver has given Reaper Productions Ltd. permission to film scenes for the television series "Reaper".
"We thank you for supporting the BC film industry and our project."
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SPARK FX '09: "Pleasantville" and "The City Of Lost Children"...
Amy Parker, from VancouverFilm.Net sends us this exclusive report from Vancouver's SPARK FX '09:
The beautiful "Pleasantville", first released ten years ago, was screened at Vancity Theatre this past Sunday night as part of the Spark FX '09 Festival.
Written and Directed by Gary Ross, the passion project was influenced by the experience of Ross’ father, also a screenwriter, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
Although I hadn’t seen the movie since its initial release, I remembered the importance of the black & white, slowly changing to colour as the citizens of 'Pleasantville' discovered happiness and curiosity by opening up their minds to new and different ideas.
I recognized the beauty and the politics but hadn’t considered the intricacy of the effects: a real nod to how well they were used because the audience is thinking in terms of an intellectual, emotional standpoint rather than for the value of 'technique'.
This go-round, I watched the movie considering the significance of the effects - the beauty of the colours chosen; the pink cherry blossoms in the park, an old teal car parked in town and the difficulty of scenes when 'Betty Parker' (Joan Allen) is desperate to hide her flesh-tones which prompts her son 'David' (Toby McGuire) to apply her 'black & white' make up, allowing the concealment of thoughts and feelings from her husband (William H. Macy).
I loved the movie the first time I saw it but it was a great experience to appreciate it with 'open' eyes this time.
"La Cite Des Enfants Perdus" ("The City of Lost Children”) was screened on Monday night, the final night of the Spark FX '09.
It was the first time I had seen this movie from directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the imaginative pair behind the delicious "Delicatessen".
"Lost Children" was released in 1995, although it feels like it was made at the turn of the century, foretelling hope despite a bleak future ahead.
Like a Dickens' story with "Pan’s Labyrinth", "The Professional" and "Star Trek" thrown in for good measure, the film is a treat for all senses, with mesmerizing art direction and a truly fantastical use of physical effects.
The blind 'cyborgs', the strength of 'One' (Ron Perlman), the 'Siamese Twins', the visual effects of six 'clones' (played by actress Dominique Pinon) and circus-trained fleas are all the more hypnotic when filmed as though frozen in perpetual twilight.
However, for all the success of the special effects that allow your mind to be transported into the reality of this redemptive 'David and Goliath' take, it is the tender love story between One and the young street urchin 'Miette' (Judith Vittel) that touched my heart.
The film seemed so innocent and imaginative that it is tempting to share it with children but when it was released, it was rated R because of disturbing/frightening scenes.
Nonetheless, you are sure to enjoy this unique and transcendental tale...
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Title 27. Professions and Occupations
Chapter 1. Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing and Nurse-Midwifery
Subchapter Iib. Physician Assistant Licensing
27 V.I.C. § 50a
50a Definitions
As used in this subchapter
‘Physician assistant’ means a person who has graduated from a physician assistant or surgeon assistant program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs, or by the predecessor or successor agency, and/or a person who has passed the certifying examination administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
‘Board’ means the Virgin Islands Board of Medical Examiners.
‘Supervising physician’ means an M.D. or D.O. licensed by the Board, w ho supervises physician assistants.
‘Supervision’ means overseeing the activities of, and accepting responsibility for, the medical services rendered by a physician assistant as provided in section 50k.
Credits: Added May 28, 2005, No. 6735, § 2, Sess. L. 2005, p. 167.
27 V.I.C. § 50a, VI ST T. 27 § 50a. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50b
50b Qualifications for licensure
Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, the Board shall license an individual before the individual may practice as a physician assistant. The Board may grant a license as a physician assistant to an applicant who:
(1) submits an application on forms approved by the Board;
(2) pays the appropriate fee as determined by the Board;
(3) has successfully completed an educational program for physician assistants or surgeon assistants accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Program, or by the predecessor or successor agency, or has passed the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants;
(4) certifies that he is mentally and physically able to engage safely in practice as a physician assistant;
(5) has no licensure, certification, or registration as a physician assistant under current discipline, revocation, suspension, or probation for cause resulting from the applicant’s practice as a physician assistant, unless the Board considers such condition and agrees to licensure;
(6) is of good moral character;
(7) submits to the Board any other information the Board considers necessary to evaluate the applicant’s qualifications; or
(8) has on the effective date of this section worked as a Physician Assistant for any health facility under the auspices of the Department of Health, the semi-autonomous hospitals and the non-profit incorporated health centers for a period of at least three years; and
(9) has been approved by the Board.
Credits: Added May 28, 2005, No. 6735, § 2, Sess. L. 2005, pp. 167, 168; amende d Aug. 31, 2005, No. 6755, § 9, Sess. L. 2005, p. 230; Apr. 12, 2008, No. 6995, § 2, Sess. L. 2008, p. 47.
HISTORY: Amendments 2008.Act 6995, § 2, added ‘or’ following the semicolon at the en d of subsection (7). 2005.Act 6755, § 9, inserted subsection (8) and redesignated former subsection (8) as present subsection (9).
27 V.I.C. § 50b, VI ST T. 27 § 50b. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50c
50c Graduate license
The Board may grant a graduate license to an applicant who meets the qualifications for licensure except that the applicant has not yet taken the national certifying examination or is awaiting the results.
(a) A graduate license is valid
(1) for one year from the date of issuance;
(2) until the results of an applicant’s examination are available or;
(3) until the Board makes a final decision on the applicant’s request for licensure, whichever comes first.
(b) A graduate licensee who has not yet taken the examination shall take the next available examination. Failure to do so is ground for revocation of the graduate license, unless the graduate licensee is unable to take the examination due to an emergency circumstance accepted as such by the Board. The Board may extend a graduate license, upon a majority vote of the board members, for a period not to exceed one year. Under no circumstances may the Board grant more than one extension of a graduate license.
Credits: Added May 28, 2005, No. 6735, § 2, Sess. L. 2005, pp. 168, 169.
27 V.I.C. § 50c, VI ST T. 27 § 50c. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50d
50d Temporary license
A temporary license may be granted to an applicant who meets all the qualifications for licensure but is awaiting the next scheduled meeting of the Board.
27 V.I.C. § 50d, VI ST T. 27 § 50d. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50e
50e Inactive license
Any physician assistant who notifies the Board in writing on forms prescribed by the Board may elect to place his license on an inactive status. A physician assistant with an inactive license is excused from payment of renewal fees and may not practice as a physician assistant. Any person who engages in practice as a physician assistant while his license is lapsed or on inactive status is considered to be practicing without a license, which is ground for discipline under section 50n. A physician assistant requesting restoration from inactive status shall pay a renewal fee and shall meet the criteria for renewal as specified in section 50f.
27 V.I.C. § 50e, VI ST T. 27 § 50e. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50f
50f Renewal
Each person who holds a license as a physician assistant in this Territory shall, upon notification from the Board, renew the license by
(1) submitting the appropriate fee as determined by the Board;
(2) completing the appropriate forms; and
(3) meeting any other requirements set forth by the Board.
27 V.I.C. § 50f, VI ST T. 27 § 50f. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50g
50g Exemption from licensure
Nothing in this subchapter may be construed to require licensure under this subchapter if:
(1) a physician assistant student enrolled in a physician assistant or surgeon assistant educational program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs, or by a successor agency;
(2) a physician assistant employed in the service of the federal government while performing duties incident to that employment; or
(3) technicians, other assistants or employees of physicians who perform physician delegated tasks, but who are not rendering services as a physician assistant or identifying themselves as a physician assistant.
Credits: Added May 28, 2005, No. 6735, § 2, Sess. L. 2005, pp. 169-170.
27 V.I.C. § 50g, VI ST T. 27 § 50g. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50h
50h Scope of practice, delegatory authority, agent of supervising physician
(a) Physician assistants practice medicine with physician supervision, as provided in section 50j. Physician assistants may perform those duties and responsibilities, including the ordering, prescribing and dispensing and administering of drugs and medical devices that are delegated by their supervising physician or physicians.
(b) Physician assistants may provide any medical service that is delegated by the supervising physician when the service is within the physician assistant’s skills, forms a component of the physician’s scope of practice, and is provided with supervision. Physician assistants may not perform any tasks that are outside of the scope of practice of the supervising physician or physicians. The scope of practice of a supervising physician encompasses those tasks that the physician has adequate training and experience to perform. Each supervising physician must submit his written attestation to the Virgin Islands Board of Medical Examiners stating that he has adequate training and experience for the physician assistant duties that he will supervise. Within 20 business days of the date of initiation, change, or termination of a contract to supervise a physician assistant, each physician with the respective change in supervising capacity of a physician assistant must submit to the Virgin Islands Board of Medical Examiners an update of his physician assistant’s scope of service parameters.
(c) With the supervising physician’s approval, physician assistants may pronounce death and may authenticate with their signature any form that may be authenticated by a physician’s signature.
(d) Physician assistants shall be considered the agents of their supervising physicians in the performance of all practice-related activities, including but not limited to, the ordering of diagnostic, therapeutic, and other medical services.
Credits: Added July 18, 2012, No. 7377, § 1, Sess. L. 2012, pp. 168-171.
27 V.I.C. § 50h, VI ST T. 27 § 50h. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50i
50i Prescriptive authority
(a) A physician assistant may prescribe, dispense, and administer drugs and medical devices to the extent delegated by the supervising physician.
(b) Prescribing of drugs to patients seen in the emergency department of a Virgin Islands Government hospital may include an up to 72 hour supply of Schedule III through V substances, as described in title 29, chapter 29 of the Virgin Islands Code, the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, and prescribing and dispensing may include all other legend drugs. A physician assistant may only prescribe non-narcotic drugs for a period of up to 30 days. Physician assistants may not prescribe any refill for any medication.
(c) All dispensing activities of physician assistants must:
(1) Comply with appropriate federal and territorial regulations; and
(2) Occur when pharmacy services are not reasonably available, when it is in the best interest of the patient, or when it is an emergency.
(d) Physician assistants may request, receive, and sign for professional samples and may distribute professional samples to patients.
(e) Physician assistants authorized to prescribe controlled substances must register with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and the Virgin Islands Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control.
27 V.I.C. § 50i, VI ST T. 27 § 50i. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50j
50j Supervision
(a) Supervision shall be continuous but shall not be construed as necessarily requiring the physical presence of the supervising physician at the time and place that the services are rendered. A supervising physician must be present on the island where the physician assistant service is being rendered to constitute continuous supervision. If the supervising physician is not present on the island where the physician assistant services are being rendered then the supervisory responsibility may be delegated by that physician to another physician with whom a supervisory agreement with the physician assistant is in place. Physician assistants may not practice independently on any island in the Virgin Islands. Physician assistants must be continuously supervised. Each supervising physician in the Virgin Islands must have an unrestricted license to practice medicine and surgery in the Virgin Islands. In the Virgin Islands a physician is not permitted to supervise more than three physician assistants at any one time. Every person practicing as a physician assistant in the Virgin Islands must be licensed to do so by the Virgin Islands Board of Medical Examiners. Physician assistants must practice within the written scope of health care services assigned to them by their respective supervising physicians. A separate office for the physician assistant shall not be established.
(b) The Board of Medical Examiners, in consultation with the Board of Pharmacy, shall promulgate such regulations governing the prescriptive authority of physician assistants as are deemed reasonable and necessary to ensure an appropriate standard of care for patients. The regulations promulgated pursuant to this section shall include at a minimum:
(1) Such requirements as may be necessary to ensure continued physician assistant competency that may include continuing education, testing, and/or any other requirement, and shall address the need to promote ethical practice, an appropriate standard of care, patient safety, the use of pharmaceuticals, and appropriate communication with patients;
(2) Requirements for periodic site visits by supervising licensees who supervise and direct physician assistants who provide services at a location other than where the licensee regularly practices; and
(3) A requirement that the assistant disclose to his patients that he is a physician assistant, and the name, address and telephone number of the supervising licensee.
(c) It is the obligation of each team of physician or physicians and physician assistant or physician assistants to ensure that the physician assistant’s scope of practice is identified; that delegation of medical tasks is appropriate to the physician assistant’s level of competence; that the relationship of, and access to, the supervising physician is defined; and that a process for evaluation of the physician assistant’s performance is established.
HISTORY: Revision notes. ‘Virgin Islands’ was substituted for ‘United States Virgin Islands’ pursuant to the Revised Organic Act of 1954.
27 V.I.C. § 50j, VI ST T. 27 § 50j. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50k
50k Supervising physician
A physician wishing to supervise a physician assistant must:
(1) be licensed in the Virgin Islands;
(2) be free from any restriction on his ability to supervise a physician assistant which has been imposed by board disciplinary action; and
(3) maintain a written agreement with the physician assistant.
(A) The agreement must state that the physician will exercise supervision over the physician assistant in accordance with any rules adopted by the Board and will retain professional and legal responsibility for the care rendered by the physician assistant.
(B) The agreement must be signed by the physician and the physician assistant and updated annually.
(C) The agreement must be kept on file at the practice site and made available to the Board upon request.
27 V.I.C. § 50k, VI ST T. 27 § 50k. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50l
50l Exclusions of limitations on employment
Nothing in this subchapter may be construed to limit the employment arrangement of a physician assistant licensed under this subchapter.
HISTORY: Revision notes. As approved, Act No. 6735 did not contain a § 50l, there fore §§ 50m through 50u have been renumbered as §§ 50l through 50t to mainta in a consistent numbering scheme. Moreover, any internal references have been adjusted appropriately.
27 V.I.C. § 50l, VI ST T. 27 § 50l. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50m
50m Assumption of professional liability
If a physician assistant is employed by a physician or group of physicians, the physician assistant must be supervised by and be the legal responsibility of the employing physician. The legal responsibility for the physician assistant’s patient care activities remains that of the employing physician, including when the physician assistant provides care and treatment for patients in health care facilities. If a physician assistant is employed by a health care facility or other entity, the legal responsibility for the physician assistant’s actions or omissions is that of the employing facility or entity. Licensed physicians shall supervise physician assistants employed by such facilities.
27 V.I.C. § 50m, VI ST T. 27 § 50m. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50n
50n Violations
The Board may, following the exercise of due process, discipline any physician assistant who:
(1) fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a license;
(2) fraudulently or deceptively uses a license;
(3) violates any provision of this chapter or any regulations adopted by the Board pertaining to this chapter;
(4) is convicted of a felony;
(5) is a habitual user of intoxicants or drugs to such an extent that he is unable to safely perform as a physician assistant;
(6) has been adjudicated as mentally incompetent;
(7) is physically or mentally unable to engage safely in practice as a physician assistant;
(8) is negligent in practice as a physician assistant or demonstrates professional incompetence;
(9) except as required by law, violates patient confidentiality;
(10) prescribes, sells, administers, distributes, orders, or gives away any drug classified as a controlled substance for other than medically-accepted, therapeutic purposes;
(11) has committed an act of moral turpitude;
(12) is disciplined or has been disciplined by another state or jurisdiction based upon acts or conduct similar to acts or conduct that would constitute grounds for disciplinary action as defined in this section;
(13) fails to cooperate with an investigation conducted by the Board; or
(14) represents himself as a physician.
27 V.I.C. § 50n, VI ST T. 27 § 50n. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50o
50o Disciplinary authority
The Board, upon finding that a physician assistant has committed any offense described in section 50n, may do any of the following:
(1) refuse to grant a license;
(2) administer a public or private reprimand;
(3) revoke, suspend, limit, or otherwise restrict a license;
(4) require a physician assistant to submit to the care or counseling or treatment of a physician or physicians designated by the Board;
(5) impose other corrective measures;
(6) suspend enforcement of its finding thereof and place the physician assistant on probation with the right to vacate the probationary order for noncompliance; or
(7) restore or reissue, at its discretion, a license and impose any disciplinary or corrective measure that it may have imposed.
27 V.I.C. § 50o, VI ST T. 27 § 50o. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50p
50p Impaired physician assistant program
The Board shall establish and administer a program for the rehabilitation of physician assistants whose competency is impaired due to the abuse of drugs or alcohol. The Board may contract with any other territorial agency or private corporation to perform duties under this section. The program must be similar to that available to other health professionals licensed in the Virgin Islands.
27 V.I.C. § 50p, VI ST T. 27 § 50p. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50q
50q Unlicensed practice; unlawful use of title
(a) Any person not licensed under this subchapter is guilty of the unlicensed practice as a physician assistant and is subject to penalties applicable to the unlicensed practice of medicine under this subchapter if the person:
(1) holds himself out as a physician assistant;
(2) uses any combination or abbreviation of the term ‘physician assist ant’ to indicate or imply that he is a physician assistant; or
(3) acts as a physician assistant without being licensed by the Board.
(b) An unlicensed physician may not use the title of ‘physician assist ant’ or practice as a physician assistant, unless he fulfills the requirements of this subchapter.
Credits:Added May 28, 2005, No. 6735, § 2, Sess. L. 2005, pp. 173, 174.
27 V.I.C. § 50q, VI ST T. 27 § 50q. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50r
50r Identification requirements
A physician assistant licensed under this subchapter shall keep his license available for inspection at his primary place of business and shall, when engaged in professional activities, wear a nametag identifying himself as a ‘physician assistant’.
27 V.I.C. § 50r, VI ST T. 27 § 50r. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50s
50s Participation in disaster and emergency care
(a) A physician assistant licensed in this Territory or licensed or authorized to practice in any state or territory of the United States who is responding to a need for emergency medical care created by an emergency or local disaster, other than an emergency situation that occurs in the place of his employment, may render such care that he is able to provide without supervision as it is defined in section 50j, or with such supervision as is available.
(b) Any physician who supervises a physician assistant providing medical care in response to such an emergency or local disaster is not required to meet the requirements set forth in this subchapter for an approved supervising physician.
(c) No physician assistant licensed in this Territory or licensed or authorized to practice in other territories or states of the United States who voluntarily and gratuitously, and other than in the ordinary course of employment or practice, renders emergency medical assistance is liable for civil damages for any personal injuries that result from acts or omissions by the person in rendering emergency care which may constitute ordinary negligence. The immunity granted by this section does not apply to acts or omissions constituting gross, willful, or wanton negligence or when the medical assistance is rendered at any hospital, physician’s office, or other health care delivery entity where those services are normally rendered. No physician who supervises a physician assistant voluntarily and gratuitously providing emergency care as described in this subsection is liable for civil damages for any personal injuries, which result from acts or omissions by the physician assistant rendering emergency care.
27 V.I.C. § 50s, VI ST T. 27 § 50s. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
27 V.I.C. § 50t
50t Rule-making authority
The Board shall promulgate, in accordance with title 3 Virgin Islands Code, chapter 35 (filing and publication of regulations), all rules that are reasonable and necessary for the performance of the various duties imposed upon the Board by the provisions of this subchapter, including but not limited to:
(1) setting licensure fees; and
(2) establishing renewal dates.
27 V.I.C. § 50t, VI ST T. 27 § 50t. Current through Act 8009 of the 32nd Legislature, including all code changes through August 23, 2017
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Ex-Johnson aide says sorry for party on eve of royal funeral
Boris Johnson’s former communications chief has apologized “unreservedly” for a lockdown-breaching party in Downing Street last year
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
LONDON — Boris Johnson’s former communications chief apologized “unreservedly” on Friday for a lockdown-breaching party in Downing Street last year — the latest in a string of rule-breaking social events that are threatening to topple the British prime minister.
James Slack said his April 2021 job-leaving party “should not have happened at the time that it did.”
“I wish to apologize unreservedly for the anger and hurt caused,” Slack said in a statement.
“I am deeply sorry, and take full responsibility,” added Slack, who left the government last year and is now deputy editor-in-chief of tabloid newspaper The Sun.
Johnson is not alleged to have attended the leaving party, disclosed by the Daily Telegraph newspaper. Earlier this week he apologized for going to another gathering in the garden of Downing Street, his office and home, in May 2020, when the U.K. was under strict lockdown.
The latest party has appalled many in Britain because of the symbolism of its timing — April 16, 2021, the night before the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip.
The Daily Telegraph said Downing Street staff drank, danced and socialized at leaving parties for Slack and another staff member on April 16 last year. The next day, the widowed queen sat alone in the church during her husband’s funeral service in order to adhere to social distancing rules that barred indoor mixing.
Photos of the monarch, clad in black and wearing a face mask, became a powerful image of the isolation and sacrifice endured by many during the pandemic.
Members of Johnson’s Conservative government have expressed support for Johnson following his admission on Wednesday that he attended a “bring your own booze” staff party in the garden of his Downing Street office in May 2020.
At the time people in Britain were banned by law from meeting more than one person outside their households as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Millions were cut off from family and friends, and even barred from visiting dying relatives in hospitals.
The latest revelations are likely to prompt more Conservatives to join opponents and demanding that Johnson resign for flouting the rules the government imposed on the country as the coronavirus swept the U.K.
Many Conservatives fear the “partygate” scandal could become a tipping point for a leader who has weathered a series of other storms over his expenses, and his moral judgment.
On Wednesday Johnson said he understood public “rage,” but stopped short of admitting wrongdoing, saying he had considered the gathering a work event to thank staff for their efforts during the pandemic.
Johnson urged people to await the conclusions of an investigation by senior civil servant Sue Gray into multiple alleged rule-breaking parties by government staff during the pandemic. Gray, a respected public servant who has investigated past allegations of ministerial wrongdoing, is expected to report by the end of the month.
The government says Gray’s inquiry is independent, but she is a civil servant and Johnson is, ultimately, her boss. Gray could conclude that Johnson broke the code of conduct for government ministers, though she does not have the power to fire him. Johnson has not said what he will do if she found he was at fault.
Johnson does not have to face voters’ judgment until the next general election, scheduled for 2024. But his party could seek to oust him sooner if it judges he has become toxic.
Under Conservative rules, a no-confidence vote in the leader can be triggered if 15% of party lawmakers write letters demanding it.
Roger Gale, a Conservative lawmaker who has long been critical of Johnson, said he had already submitted a letter calling for a leadership challenge.
“I do think that minds are now, over this weekend, being focused upon the need to take the necessary action,” he said. “I clearly don’t know, and I shouldn’t know, how many of my colleagues have put in letters … but I believe that there is some momentum which is growing.”
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Frequent question: Are non traded REITs private placements?
What is a private non-traded REIT?
Are all REITs private?
What is the difference between traded and non-traded REITs?
What is the advantage of a non-traded REIT?
What are non listed REITs?
Who invests in non-traded REITs?
What is the difference between a public REIT and private REIT?
Are REITs limited partnerships?
How many private REITs are there?
How do you get out of a non-traded REIT?
What is a non-traded company?
What are non-traded goods?
Are non-traded REITs risky?
Are non-traded REITs safe?
How are non-traded REITs valued?
A non-traded REIT is a form of real estate investment method that is designed to reduce or eliminate tax while providing returns on real estate. A non-traded REIT does not trade on a securities exchange and, because of this, is quite illiquid for long periods of time.
Most REIT investors buy shares of their real estate investment trusts on public markets. However, not all REITs are of the publicly-traded variety. There are some public REITs that are not traded, and there are some private REITs that aren’t open to all investors and don’t have many regulatory requirements.
Non-traded REITs are similar to publicly-traded REITs in that they are still registered with the SEC and subject to the same regulations and reporting requirements. … The value of a non-traded REIT is not subject to stock market volatility and is instead determined by an appraisal of the properties owned by the trust.
By definition, the key benefit of non-traded REITs is that they are not yet publicly traded. Subsequently, they offer the reasonably predictable cash flow of publicly traded REITs without the volatility incumbent in the public markets.
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Non-traded REITs are real estate investments with company shares that are not listed on a public exchange. Non-traded REITs include office space, multifamily properties, shopping centers, hotels or warehouses, among others.
Who can Invest: Public non-traded REITs are available for investment by anyone, whether accredited or non-accredited, subject to certain investment limits. Investment Minimum: The minimum investment for a public non-traded REIT typically starts around $1,000 but may vary.
Another major difference between public and private REITs is that all public ones must register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As such, these REITs must file regular reports. Private ones, on the other hand, don’t have to register and, therefore, aren’t regulated by the SEC.
For starters, REITs are corporations with regular management structures and shareholders, whereas MLPs are partnerships with so-called unitholders (i.e., limited partners). Investing in a REIT gives you an ownership share in a corporation, whereas MLP investors possess units in a partnership.
How many private REITs are there in the U.S.? At this time, there are a total of about 1,100 REITs — both public and private. About 800 of those are assumed to be private REITs, as they are not registered with the SEC.
Because the REITs aren’t publicly traded, the only way to withdraw money is to redeem shares.
(2)A “non-traded company” is a company none of whose shares were, at any time during the confirmation period concerned, shares admitted to trading on a relevant market or on any other market which is outside the United Kingdom.
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Non-tradable items are those which are not traded internationally. They include items such as services where the demander and producer must be in the same location, and commodities which have low value relative to either their weight or volume.
One risk of non-traded REITs (those that aren’t publicly traded on an exchange) is that it can be difficult for investors to research them. Non-traded REITs have little liquidity, meaning it’s difficult for investors to sell them.
The gloomy truth about non-traded REITs is well-documented. The high up-front and annual fees essentially guarantee that the investor will lose money. They cannot be sold on any public exchange, and the company itself offers limited to no redemptions of shares.
Instead of changing hands at the going market price — which is often influenced by investor sentiment rather than underlying value — non-traded REITs sell shares based on their net asset value (NAV), which is the total value of its assets minus liabilities.
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Displaying items by tag: Rescue
RNLI Shares Water Safety Advice for the Bank Holiday Weekend
This bank holiday weekend, with more people expected to take part in water-based activities, the RNLI is sharing some advice and top tips to help people stay safe on the water, whether travelling to the coast or visiting inland waters.
RNLI Water Safety Lead, Kevin Rahill said: ‘This Bank Holiday weekend, many people are going to be heading to the water to enjoy themselves. We want to see people having fun in or on the water and keeping safe while doing it. By taking a few simple steps, everyone can reduce the risk of an accident.’
‘Even in Summer, water temperatures can be cold, rarely going above 15 degrees. Cold Water Shock can affect everyone. To avoid this, acclimatise to the water slowly to get used to the cold. If you fall in unexpectedly, remember to ‘Float to Live’ – lie on your back and spread your arms and legs, gently moving them to keep afloat. Keep floating until you feel your breath coming back before calling for help or swimming ashore if nearby.’
With swimming becoming increasing popular Kevin Rahill offered the following advice, ‘Always choose to swim in a lifeguarded area and swim between the flags. Stay within your depth and swim parallel to the shore. Watch out for rip currents, if you do get caught in one, try to swim parallel to the shore until you can feel you are out of the current before trying to swim shore. Inflatable toys are not suitable for any open water and should be kept for the pool. They can easily be blown offshore very quickly.’
For other activity such as water boating, sailing, canoeing, paddle boarding, wear an appropriate personal flotation device suitable for the activity, and always carry a means of calling for help.
Water safety Ireland adds: Nine people have drowned at waterways on the island of Ireland in seven days, six at inland waterways, leading Water Safety Ireland to make a national stay safe appeal to the public throughout the Bank Holiday weekend and the month of August. People are advised to swim only at Lifeguarded waterways or in areas that are traditionally known to be safe and have ringbuoys available for rescues.
Published in RNLI Lifeboats
Five People Get into Difficulty at Ballycastle Beach
The 1.2 km Ballycastle Beach is a popular tourist destination on the Causeway Coast Route on the Antrim Coast of Northern Ireland. It was the scene shortly before midday yesterday (15th July) of a serious incident, when as reported by the Belfast Telegraph, five people got into difficulty.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) said three people on water pedal bikes went into the surf zone where they were swamped by a wave before being helped onto a group leader's boat which then capsized. Two people were taken to hospital, and three people were treated at the scene by paramedics. These were two separate incidents that occurred within metres of each other and within minutes of each other. The Irish News reported that by the time emergency crews including an ambulance and the NI Air Ambulance arrived at the scene, the group had made it back to shore.
The coastguard has appealed for people to exercise caution around seaside areas this weekend after this trip to the beach almost ended in tragedy.
A spokesperson for the Coastguard said there has been an increase in such incidents this year as a result of people spending more time locally due to the pandemic. "The weather has been particularly good over the past week or so, and it's looking like that's going to be the case for the next week, so we do expect to be quite busy. Temperatures in the low 20s can be expected until at least the middle of next week. We'd also recommend if you're going to go into the beach and go into the sea, to go to a beach that has lifeguards on it, especially at the weekend".
The Police Service thanked those involved in the incident. "Thank you also to Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), the Helimed team, Coastguard, RNLI, and all members of the public who helped, provided support to those involved and assisted with the moving of equipment and persons. All persons were transported by road ambulance to hospital as a precautionary measure with no life-threatening injuries".
A spokesperson for the Ambulance Service said four emergency crews, an officer and the charity air ambulance were called to the scene.
Published in Northern Ireland Waters
Lough Neagh Rescue Tasked to Broken Down Motor Boat
In the early evening of last Sunday (20th June) Lough Neagh rescue was tasked to a broken down motorboat with two children, three adults and a dog on board. The vessel had been making its way from Battery Harbour on the west shore of the Lough to Gawley's Gate in the southeast corner.
Lough Neagh is the largest freshwater lake by area in the British Isles at 392 square kilometres.
The Lifeboats launched and searched the broken-down boat in rough conditions and large swells. It had drifted quite a few miles off course. Once located, a crew member went aboard to check on the casualties and transferred one adult onto the lifeboat to be brought to shore.
The other lifeboat rigged a tow and brought the vessel to Maghery in the southwest corner as this was the safest option due to the wind direction and large swells. It was handed over to the awaiting Coastguard team.
Lough Neagh Rescue is a voluntary search and rescue organisation based on the shores of Lough Neagh.
Why Irish Tow Surf Rescue Club Opposes County Clare Jet Ski Ban
“Aquabikes” caught the attention of former Irish Times journalist Kevin Myers back in 1982.
The Irishman’s Diary writer was seriously concerned about the pressure windsurfers were putting on the RNLI Dun Laoghaire lifeboat at the time.
He had read about these “aquabikes”, made by a Japanese motorbike company, which “skid across the water, steered by handlebars”.
Although there might be “cacophonous” drawbacks, this vehicle might prove useful in rescuing windsurfers, he wrote - if it wasn’t engaged in knocking them down, or worse...
Almost 40 years later, and jetskis have proved their worth in rescue, with trained riders able to access areas of the coastline that may prove too dangerous for coast and cliff rescue crews, lifeboats or helicopters.
However, jetskis still get bad press among those who don’t understand their benefits – or those who have witnessed untrained and ill-considerate use of them. Now Clare County Council wants to ban their use altogether on a number of beaches.
The Irish Tow Surf Rescue Club has objected to a proposed jetski ban Photo: ITSRC via Facebook
Clare fireman, lifeguard and surfer Peter Conroy owes his life to a jetski rescue. He was one of the founders of the Irish Tow Surf Rescue Club which has provided training, and invaluable support to surfers, and to open water sea swimmers.
Organisers of marine events have benefited from their voluntary assistance, and the club has also provided defibrillators at a number of coastal locations.
Conroy spoke to Wavelengths this week about his rescue, and about why his club opposes the proposed ban.
Listen to Wavelengths below
Afloat.ie · Why Irish Tow Surf Rescue Club Opposes County Clare Jet Ski Ban
And you can then view a bit more of the work of the Irish Tow Surf Rescue Club here
Published in Wavelength Podcast
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Lough Neagh Rescue Tow Powerless Motor Cruiser Back to Ballyronan Marina
Lough Neagh Rescue was called last Friday evening to a 24ft cruiser that had lost power.
The vessel was located about 1.5 nautical miles to the east of Ballyronan on the west side of Lough Neagh.
Lifeboats were launched and located the vessel with two people on both of whom were safe and well. A towline was secured, and the vessel towed into Ballyronan Marina, where it was safely moored to the jetty.
The lifeboats returned to base, were cleaned, refuelled and are ready for the next tasking.
Lough Neagh Rescue is a Limited Company and a registered Charity. It is made up of 60 highly trained volunteers, four lifeboats, two vans and an off-road jeep, operating on the largest lake by area in the British Isles with a surface area of 151 square miles.
Record Year for Rescues as People Turn to Coast & Waterways During Covid-19
Rescue agencies are reporting a record year for incidents on the water as thousands of people turned to the coastline, lakes and rivers during Covid-19.
The Irish Coast Guard, RNLI and Water Safety Ireland have all been under pressure to comply with Covid-19 protective measures and to cope with the large number of emergency alerts.
A total of 500 people were rescued by lifeguards this season, compared to 260 last year.
The last time figures were this high was in 2013, when there were 430 rescues.
There were also no confirmed cases of lifeguards testing positive for the Covid-19.
Water Safety Ireland (WSI) has recorded the lowest number of accidental drownings, at 37 to date, compared to 62 accidental drownings in 2019.
The RNLI said its lifeboat crews have been “exceptionally busy”, with 730 call outs to date this year compared to just over 1,000 launches in the Republic last year.
Dun Laoghaire RNLI is busiest
The busiest station has been at Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Co Dublin, with nearly 100 call outs for this year so far, according to RNLI Lifesaving Lead for Ireland Owen Medland.
Both organisations had to put special Covid 19 avoidance measures in place for volunteers and lifeguards employed by local authorities.
Independent TD Catherine Connolly is calling for publication of an Irish Coast Guard analysis of one of the most high profile rescues – that of paddleboarders Sara Feeney (23) and Ellen Glynn (17) in Galway Bay on August 13th last.
Ms Connolly is among those who have paid tribute to Claddagh fisherman Patrick Oliver and his son Morgan for their rescue of Ms Feeney and Ms Glynn after 15 hours at sea. She said, however, that "lessons needed to be learned" about the search pattern in the inner bay, rather than out towards the Aran islands, and co-ordination of volunteers onshore.
In a Dáil reply to a question tabled by Ms Connolly, Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan said the initial search was focused along the northern shore to ascertain if they were attempting to get ashore or had got ashore.
He said the RNLI Galway lifeboat was tasked within three minutes of the initial report at 10.05 pm and the RNLI Aran lifeboat was tasked at 11.19 pm.
He said the Shannon based Coast Guard helicopter was tasked to the scene at 11.02 pm and was recorded as proceeding at 11.25 pm.
Mr Ryan said the search was moving to the south-west of Galway Bay and the Aran Islands, with aerial surface and coastal searches off the islands on the morning of their rescue, and a member of the public alerted Valentia Coast Guard to a possible sighting after 11 am on August 13th, he said.
Visibility had been very poor in the early part of the day with fog at sea till mid-morning.
Published in Rescue
Fixed Wing & Drones May be Part of New Air/Sea Search & Rescue Contract But no Apparent Role for Air Corps
The Irish Coast Guard has asked the Government to include fixed-wing aircraft and use of drones in the new State contract for search and rescue.
As The Sunday Times reports today, tender offers for the new air/sea service, which will replace the existing €60 million a year contract, may be asked to suggest how a mixture of helicopters, fixed-wing and drones could be used – without necessarily being tied to four helicopter bases.
CHC Ireland, which operates a fleet of Sikorsky S-92 helicopters from bases at Shannon, Sligo, Dublin and Waterford for the Irish Coast Guard at a cost of €60 million annually, has been given a one-year extension to its ten-year contract to 2023.
A recent industry briefing in advance of the publication of a tender for the new service from 2024 specified that bidders should be able to deploy a helicopter to anywhere in Ireland or within 12 nautical miles of the coast in 45 minutes of being airborne and be capable of search and rescue in the Irish exclusive economic zone.
It also specified providing one Coast Guard search and surveillance aircraft - which could be fixed wing or drones - on 24-hour standby.
This would reduce the flying time and fuel expenditure of search and rescue helicopters
Questions are being asked within military circles about the need – and possible extra expense of – a dedicated fixed-wing aircraft under the control of the Irish Coast Guard, which could push the contract price up considerably.
The Air Corps is due to take delivery of two new Casa maritime patrol aircraft at a cost of €235 million.
Earlier this month, however, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence Simon Coveney ruled out a role for the Air Corps in search and rescue.
The Air Corps pioneered helicopter rescue off this coast 40 years ago, with long-range missions undertaken by the British RAF and Royal Navy, but it was withdrawn from search and rescue in 2003 by then defence minister Michael Smith.
The Air Corps currently flies the emergency aeromedical service (EAS), based in Athlone, Co Westmeath, which recently marked a milestone by airlifting its 3000th patient.
The Irish Coast Guard flew 54 medical missions this year, with an additional two paediatric transfers to Britain. It also serves the islands and flew 91 medical evacuations from offshore communities.
Read more in The Sunday Times here
Lough Neagh Lifeboat Rescues Two on Yacht with Mechanical Difficulties
Last Sunday (4th October) Lough Neagh Rescue Lifeboat was tasked to two people stranded on Coney Island as their vessel had mechanical issues. Coney Island is owned by the National Trust and lies in the south-west corner of Lough Neagh about 1km from Maghery, a village on the Co Armagh shore.
Due to the adverse weather conditions, it was decided to take the persons off the island and bring them to Maghery. With the two people safely ashore and handed into the care of the Lough Neagh Coastguard team it was decided that the vessel could be brought to Maghery also, so the crew went back to the island, rigged a tow and brought the casualty vessel safely to the shore in Maghery.
Lough Neagh Rescue is a charitable 24-hour voluntary search and rescue service operating from three stations on the Lough - one at Ardboe in County Tyrone, one at Antrim in the North and the other from Kinnego Marina in the south near Lurgan, County Armagh.
Lough Neagh is the largest lake in the British Isles being about 32 km long and 14 km wide. It is mostly shallow with an average depth of 9 m. It is very exposed and in windy conditions can become extremely rough very quickly. It is used extensively by a wide variety of recreation and commercial craft with two sailing clubs, one at either end – Antrim Boat Club in the north and Lough Neagh Sailing Club at Kinnego in the south.
Galway Fishermen Receive Mayoral Tribute for Paddleboarder Rescue
The two Galway fishermen who rescued two paddleboarders in August have been honoured at a mayoral reception.
Mayor of Galway Mike Cubbard described Patrick Oliver and his son Morgan as “Claddagh royalty” when he presented them with a framed presentation scroll and a bronze model of a traditional Irish currach.
The presentation at a tightly controlled event in Salthill’s Leisureland was in honour of their achievements in saving the lives of Galway cousins Sara Feeney and Ellen Glynn in August.
Mr Cubbard said that "the rescue highlights the fantastic community spirit which exists in Galway as hundreds of people across the city and county offered their help with the search operation".
The cousins who were also recognised for their bravery survived 15 hours at sea after they were swept some 17 nautical miles across the bay and towards the Atlantic in mid August.
The fishermen have already been awarded the Afloat.ie National Seamanship Trophy for their efforts.
The Olivers recorded another rescue when they pulled a man from the river Corrib last month.
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Major Search Operation For Sea Angler Missing Off Kerry Coast
Independent.ie reports that a major search and rescue operation was launched last night (Wednesday 26 August) for a sea angler on the Kerry coast.
The man reportedly fell into the water while fishing at Kerry Head.
His angling partner entered the water after him to attempt a rescue, but got into difficulty and was recovered shortly after.
Elsewhere, the body of a fisherman who went missing from his boat of Teelin in Co Donegal just hours before was found late last night.
And a young man has spoken of his role in a ‘terrifying’ rescue of a 10-year-0d boy in difficulty in the water off Com Dhíneol in West Kerry yesterday afternoon.
Twenty-two-year-old Mícheál Keogh sprang into action with another man, Dan Sullivan, to assist the boy’s two uncles in retrieving the youngster amid the strong current.
“It’s a very dangerous place to swim,” Keogh told RTÉ Radio 1’s Morning Ireland. “None of them could swim so it was mad altogether but we were able to get them out.”
TheJournal.ie has more on the story HERE.
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Launch of Astra 1N satellite postponed until late July
SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announces that the launch of its new ASTRA 1N satellite has been postponed due to an anomaly that occurred during the final launch count-down on July 1st, 2011. Following the anomaly detected on Friday during the launch attempt, Arianespace has decided to replace the valve of the EPC (the main cryogenic stage), which did not function nominally. In order to carry out this operation, the Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle has been rolled back into the Final Assembly Building (BAF). The valves replacement and the ensuing operations should require approximately 20 days. Arianespace will reschedule the launch shortly. The launch vehicle and its payload, the ASTRA 1N and the BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R satellite are maintained in fully...
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Wreckage Of The British F-35B Ditched In the Mediterranean Sea Has Been Recovered
A Royal Air Force F-35B prepares to depart from the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier during the CSG21 cruise. (Photo: Royal Navy). In the box: a screenshot of the video showing the crash that was leaked online.
The remains of the aircraft are now being transported to an allied port so it can then be airlifted back to the UK.
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence announced on Dec. 7 the completion of the operations for the recovery of the Royal Air Force F-35B that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea. As we already extensively reported, the aircraft crashed while taking off from the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier on Nov. 17, 2021, as it couldn’t achieve enough speed to lift off reportedly because the engine ingested a “cheap plastic rain cover” or an air intake cover.
“Operations to recover the UK F-35 jet in the Mediterranean Sea have successfully concluded,” said the MoD in a statement. “We extend our thanks to our NATO allies Italy and the United States of America for their support during the recovery operation.” The U.S. Navy dispatched a specialized ship of the Emergency Ship Salvage Material (ESSM) System from its 6th Fleet HQ in Rota (Spain), while there are no details about the support provided by the Italian Navy.
It took two weeks to locate the wreck and another week to bring it up, according to defence sources mentioned by British newspapers. The recovery effort was complicated by the location where the F-35 ditched, as it happened in open water with depths that can exceed, in some areas, over 3,000 meters (about 10,000 feet), and by rough sea conditions while the operations were taking place.
The recovered wreck, or what remains of it, is being transported by a chartered salvage ship to an unspecified allied port so it can be later airlifted back to the UK. According to The Sun, officials insisted all the wreckage had been recovered and “there is no danger or compromise to sensitive equipment on the aircraft”. Even if the chances of another country finding and exploiting any of the plane’s remains were small, the UK MoD didn’t want to take any chances.
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Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 prepares to arm an active F-35B Lightning II aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Indo-Pacific on August 05, 2021. A historical first for HMS Queen Elizabeth, rearming and refueling active aircraft allows Marines to increase sortie generation, providing commanders increased options. This training underscores the unique advantages and opportunities which Carrier Strike Group 21 provides the US Marine Corps, US Navy, and Royal Navy and our commitment to shared security. (Photo: 1st Lt. Zachary Bodner/ U.S. Marine Corps)
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National Security Adviser Sir Stephen Lovegrove, as reported by the UK Defence Journal, told the Commons Defence Committee on December 6:
“The pilot was recovered safely and is still undergoing medical checks. We are hopefully that he will be absolutely fine. It would be premature of me to comment on the reasons for the accident. The recovery of the flight data recorder and the wreckage are really vital for an accurate investigation to determine the causes of the crash. Clearly the swift recovery of the aircraft is what we would like to do and we are working closely with allies on the mechanics of that. We haven’t got the plane up yet.
We are aware of Russian undersea capabilities, and you are quite right to identify them as being state of the art. The kinds of precautions and operations that we are undertaking at the moment are designed at least in part to ensure that the technology of the F-35B remains as confidential as you would like it to be. Those security aspects are very much at the top of our mind. My understanding is that the experts know where the aircraft is.”
The UK Defence Journal was also the first to report another interesting piece of information about this incident. As we reported, a video from the HMS Queen Elizabeth’s video camera system, showing the moment of the crash and the ejection of the pilot, was leaked online about two weeks after the mishap. The video was recorded with a mobile phone from the ship computer’s screens and disseminated among the crew onboard, before being shared outboard without permission.
According to the source mentioned by the website, a male crew member of HMS Queen Elizabeth’s ship company was arrested in connection with the video leak and has been immediately flown back to the UK. The source was reportedly able to confirm the info directly with the HMS Queen Elizabeth’s ship company.
The lost F-35B was identified as ZM152, with modex 018 and construction number BK18. The aircraft was reportedly one of the most recently delivered British F-35B, with its first flight reported in June 2019. The same info was also found in the F-35 aircraft database hosted by the website F-16.net.
Interesting (and disappointing) to find out that the F-35B that was lost from the QE was ZM152; she first flew in June 2019 and is, therefore, one of the newer F-35Bs in the UK fleet, with significantly lower Block IV upgrade requirements than older airframes. Thus a greater loss pic.twitter.com/wHnxHQLVtG
— Justin Bronk (@Justin_Br0nk) December 6, 2021
The aircraft carrier, together with the Carrier Strike Group, is about to return home in these days, with the U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs already disembarked at NAS Rota and the UK aircraft disembarking as the HMS Queen Elizabeth gets near the UK shores.
Stefano D’Urso is a contributor for TheAviationist based in Lecce, Italy. He’s a full-time engineering student and aspiring pilot. In his spare time he’s also an amateur aviation photographer and flight simulation enthusiast.
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Home Books Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, 5e
CHAPTER 7: BUSINESS PLANNING FOR PHARMACY PROGRAMS
Glen T. Schumock; Andrew Donnelly
Schumock GT, Donnelly A. Schumock G.T., & Donnelly A Schumock, Glen T., and Andrew Donnelly.BUSINESS PLANNING FOR PHARMACY PROGRAMS. In: Zgarrick DP, Desselle SP, Moczygemba LR, Alston G. Zgarrick D.P., & Desselle S.P., & Moczygemba L.R., & Alston G(Eds.),Eds. David P. Zgarrick, et al.eds. Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, 5e. McGraw Hill; 2020. Accessed January 16, 2022. https://accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2714§ionid=230768189
Schumock GT, Donnelly A. Schumock G.T., & Donnelly A Schumock, Glen T., and Andrew Donnelly. (2020). Business planning for pharmacy programs. Zgarrick DP, Desselle SP, Moczygemba LR, Alston G. Zgarrick D.P., & Desselle S.P., & Moczygemba L.R., & Alston G(Eds.),Eds. David P. Zgarrick, et al. Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, 5e. McGraw Hill. https://accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2714§ionid=230768189
Schumock GT, Donnelly A. Schumock G.T., & Donnelly A Schumock, Glen T., and Andrew Donnelly. "BUSINESS PLANNING FOR PHARMACY PROGRAMS." Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, 5e Zgarrick DP, Desselle SP, Moczygemba LR, Alston G. Zgarrick D.P., & Desselle S.P., & Moczygemba L.R., & Alston G(Eds.),Eds. David P. Zgarrick, et al. McGraw Hill, 2020, https://accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2714§ionid=230768189.
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
THE BUSINESS CONCEPT
STEPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A BUSINESS PLAN
COMMUNICATION OF THE BUSINESS PLAN
If adopted, instructors can Email User Services (userservices@mhprofessional.com) for more information on Power Points, Q&A and Activities.
About the Authors: Dr. Schumock is a graduate from Washington State University (BPharm), the University of Washington (PharmD), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (MBA, PhD). He also completed a residency and a research fellowship. Currently, he is Professor and Dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Dr. Schumock has taught courses on pharmacy management, pharmacoeconomics, and business planning for pharmacy services. He has published over 200 articles, book chapters, and books. He is on the editorial boards of the journals Pharmacotherapy and PharmacoEconomics, and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research.
Dr. Donnelly is a graduate from the University of Illinois at the Medical Center (BPharm) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (MBA, PharmD). Dr. Donnelly is currently Director of Pharmacy Services at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System and Clinical Professor and Assistant Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the activities of the pharmacy department. Dr. Donnelly’s areas of interest include pharmacy administration as well as technology and automation as it relates to the medication use process. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
After completing this chapter, readers should be able to
Describe the purpose of “business plan” planning.
Discuss the important components of a business plan.
Review important aspects of communicating and implementing a business plan.
Highlight examples of business plan planning within pharmacy organizations.
Understand how to write a business plan for a pharmacy organization.
The scenario begun in Chapter 6 continues here. In brief, Ted Thompson is a clinical pharmacist at a medium sized community hospital. Ted has just finished participating in the process of developing a strategic plan for the pharmacy department. Included in the 5-year plan is a goal for the department to develop and implement specific clinical pharmacist services that help to deliver care, improve patient outcomes, and reduce spending, which aligns with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Practice Alignment Initiative (PAI).
After his first year at the hospital, Ted has formulated several ideas for new clinical pharmacist services that the department could offer which might improve patient outcomes, reduce spending, and generate revenue. During his annual performance evaluation, he discusses these ideas with his boss, the Director of Pharmacy (DOP), who is happy that Ted has come forward with his ideas and encourages him to investigate these options further. One idea that is of particular interest is to develop an outpatient medication management service for patients with complex or chronic diseases who are prescribed high-cost and complex specialty ...
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More people are doing more to deliberately change the world than ever before. They are creating jobs, building the economy, and circulating wealth in brand new ways that we can all learn from. Here are a two examples:
Australian Nick D’Aloisio began teaching himself to code on computers before he was 15 years old. He built a few small apps, but launched a major app called Summly. Last year, when he was 17, D’Aloisio sold it to Yahoo for $30 million. In the process he hired dozens of programmers and made others wealthy, too.
At the age of 12, Charles Orgbon III founded a nonprofit called Greening Forward. SIx years later, his youth-driven, youth-led, and youth-imagined environmental organization is teaching young people across the U.S. how to make money through the green movement. His program has reached hundreds of communities across the country and helped thousands of students learn about the environment in a productive way.
The stories of people changing the world can go on for days, and as we all know, this has always happened. However, more than ever, its the youngest among us who are actually doing the most, and have been for more than 100 years—and throughout all of history: Joan of Arc, Mozart, and countless unheralded people under 18, 21, 25, and 35 have changed the world.
Youth are changing the world in ways we all follow all of the time, whether we’re aware of that or not. While we routinely don’t acknowledge them for doing it, the fact is that society is dragged forward chained to the heels of young people, today and throughout all times. There is a lot we can learn from them.
Ways Youth Change the World
Robert Kennedy famously summarized the cliche ways young people change the world in a speech from 1967, saying, “This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”
Its important to move beyond cliches though, and towards a practical, responsive logic that shows clearly why and how young people are changing the world. Here are five ways that’s happening right now.
Youth are in school. Learning conformity through standardization, having their schedules delineated for them, and being forced to learn what others want them to teaches some youth to stay in line. For others, its an excuse and even permission to get out of the box and think in radical new ways. They’re learning about politics, they’re learning about the real world, and they’re launching their lives during current times, right now. Transforming education by demanding public accountability for public schools and forcing educators and education leaders to become responsive to the democratic citizens they’re responsible to and for is ensuring these young people change the future.
Youth cannot vote. The demands of democratic civic engagement overburden many adults, effectively preventing them from voting, becoming involved, and owning the political process. Since youth cannot vote, many are driven towards apathy and disregard for the system. Those lessons will be applied to many things throughout their lives, and for some, that is civic life. These young people are becoming enraged, motivated, and empowered to take action and deliberately pave the road to the future.
Youth are living in “my house by my rules”. Homes and neighborhoods around the world are ruled by tradition and culture that routinely, systematically, and wholly takes power away from children and youth. Growing up with the melancholic conformity of middle class suburbs, the deafening roar of poverty, or the privileged access wealth provides will each force a percentage of young people to deliberately seek to change the world throughout their lives. Warren Buffet was young once, as were Maya Angelou, David Gilmour, Dr. King, Napoleon, Da Vinci, Pho Khun Sri Indraditya, Julius Caesar, and Imhotep. All these world changers grew up in someone’s house and sought to change the world later. Those seeds are always planted in our youth, just like they are still today.
Youth are connected. Like no generation before, young people are connected to each other, often in ways adults cannot imagine. The mapping of human ecology has never been nearly effective in history as it is now, with the appearance and immutability of social networking and technology to support connectivity becoming as ubiquitous as it is. These connections are becoming more obvious than ever before, and while the benefits are still becoming apparent, today’s generation of youth are growing up with it. Because of this, they are changing the world in ways we’ve never imagined.
Youth are able of acting beyond expectations. As we age, most adults seek familiarity and ease. Growing increasingly distrustful of change, we latch onto consistency, segregation, and tight knit connections for our lives. Young people operate in ways that are counter to each of these, actively fostering and thriving within the unknown, the deeply entwined, and the actively frayed edges of social connectivity. Generation after generation, they are actively paving the road to the future because of this reality.
These may be obvious, simplistic perspectives on how young people are changing the world today. However, It can be hard to see what adults can do to practically do to make a difference themselves.
5 Easy Ways YOU Can Change the World
Parents, teachers, businesspeople, and adults everyday can help ensure that young people are paving the road to the future with five easy steps.
Keep forcing youth to do what adults want them to. The more we cause children and youth to do what we want them to, the more likely more young people are rebel. If you want to change the world, do not allow young people to use their voices, disallow them from becoming involved in civic life, and force them to follow arbitrary rules based on negative adult assumptions rather than scientific realities. This will change the world by encouraging so-called “youth rebelliousness”, which is generally anything in defiance of tradition and adult-identified “acceptability”.
Smother youth with adult-created culture. Promote young peoples’ sense of inability and indifference by pushing music, clothes, movies, tv, and other adult-created culture throughout the lives of every young person. Push them to believe sub-cultures and identities are segregating factors, and encourage them to negate their own self-worth. This will change the world by forcing more youth to make media for themselves and for adults who don’t buy into adult-created culture.
Limit the access youth have to technology. If you’re attending the average school or youth program today, you know its common to find rules against cell phone usage, classrooms completely devoid of computers for students, and limited Internet access throughout a lot of schools and nonprofit organizations intending to teach youth today. With the impending end of net neutrality, we will see the demise of free and unimpeded access to knowledge via the internet. If you want to change the world, continue to restrict youths’ access to technology and prohibit their free access to information and resources. This will push them to further innovate in technology and free the boundaries of knowledge however they can.
Force youth to follow the rules created by adults. Despite advances in science and clearly demonstrative examples of the contributions they make throughout society, for more than a century adults have clearly denied the increasing capacity of youth to self-manage and negotiate the world they share with us. Instead, we routinely infantalize youth, talking down to them, incapacitating and disenfranchising them with wholly discriminatory laws, policies, and rules that reflect traditional assumptions. This causes young people people to actively dismantle age-based, race-based, gender-based, and other bias-based perspectives that limit growth around the world.
Stay away from youth. Forced age-based segregation between youth and adults disallows young people from forming healthy, proactive, and equitable relationships with people older than them. This segregation is systematically enforced within schools, through after school and summer youth programs, throughout our business sector, and across governmental decision-making and policies. Dissatisfied by inept adult-driven, ineffectual economic choices, more young people will become more motivated to change the world in the coming years.
These steps are easy because they are already happening right now. If you want to ensure change the world, just let these steps keep happening!
My career is focused on working with adults and youth to build their awareness and ability to change the world on purpose. I believe that every conscientious adult has a responsibility to themselves, their families, and succeeding generations to take actual, practical, and positive action that changes the world, no matter how they do that. The list in this article does not represent that.
If you want to actually make a positive difference in the lives of young people, here are some simple things you can do right now:
Read inspiring stories about what kids can do
Learn how discrimination against young people affects everyone
Form youth/adult partnerships at home, in your workplace, and throughout your community.
Find out what you can do to change schools right now.
Engage youth in changing schools, and in changing the world.
Whatever you choose to do, simply do something. Any action is generally better than no action, and with young people you actually can make a difference.
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You might like my article, “What You Need to Change the World”. Read it here »”
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In a Decision – Thieme v. Thieme- (a "Reported Decision" – New Jersey Supreme Court) >> the Court Held:
The New Jersey law authorizes the equitable distribution of Husband’s Closing Bonus only to the extent that the compensation was earned during the parties’ marriage. However, in this particular case, under the extraordinary circumstances presented, the New Jersey Supreme Court authorized the imposition of a constructive trust as a remedy for the Wife’s claim of unjust enrichment and that the Wife is entitled to a percentage of the portion of the Closing Bonus earned during the parties’ cohabitation
The couple’s relationship was volatile from its inception The parties filed for divorce after a 14 month marriage. The parties married in 2010 and began to cohabitate in 2003. In April 2012, the parties executed their Divorce Agreement.
Three months after the entry of their judgment of divorce, the business where Husband was employed was sold and Husband was offered a one-time Closing Bonus of $2,250,000. Husband did not inform Wife of the Bonus. She first learned of the Bonus when Husband deposited $200,000 into a bank account that, unbeknownst to Husband, remained a joint account despite the divorce. With no notice to Husband, Wife withdrew the deposited funds..
The Court holds that the trial court correctly allocated the distribution of Husband’s Bonus to premarital and marital periods, and properly deemed only the portion of the compensation that was earned during the parties’ marriage to be a marital asset subject to equitable distribution.
The Court notes that the Family Part is a court of equity, and that “[e]quities arise and stem from facts which call for relief from the strict legal effects of given situations.”
There existed the acknowledgment that Husband would be generously compensated upon the sale of the company and that was a significant factor in the parties’ personal and financial planning from the early stages of their relationship. Under these facts, a decision constraining Wife to the nominal share of the Closing Bonus that is authorized by the equitable distribution statute would result in unjust enrichment.
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A.M. Best Affirms Stewart Ratings
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of B++ (Good) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of "bbb+" of the member companies of Stewart Title Group (Stewart). A.M. Best also has affirmed the ICR of "bb+" of the parent holding company, Stewart Information Services Corp. The outlook for all ratings is stable, A.M. Best reported.
Stewart's ratings reflect its adequate risk-adjusted capitalization as evidenced by its fairly reasonable underwriting and premium leverage ratios, according to A.M. Best. Statutory surplus on a reported basis rose slightly in 2011 compared with 2010, while the group's premium leverage, as represented by net premium to surplus ratio did not markedly change. Stewart's slight improvement in surplus levels was partly due to its posting a modest operating profit in 2011, its first since 2006.
Additionally, operating performance has been on an improving trend over the past two years, as witnessed by the fact that while operating performance for the group was moderately negative in 2010, it was a significant improvement over 2008 and 2009, when earnings were sharply impacted by unfavorable operating results, including significant strengthening of claim reserves for past policy years, large title claims (including agency defalcations) and a significant slowdown in real estate market transactions. The positive operating performance in 2011 also was despite a modest decrease in revenues compared to 2010, which saw a drop in premium volume compared to 2009. This was partly due to the introduction of new real estate settlement regulations and questions surrounding the processing of foreclosure properties.
Together with the slowdown in refinancing volumes in 2011 due to little change in interest rates in recent quarters this has caused a drop in order volumes, both in 2010 and 2011. However, operating performance trends in 2010, and more markedly in 2011, have shown an improving trend partly due to an improvement in Stewart's loss experience from active agents, as losses incurred from agents cancelled in recent years had been quite poor. Stewart also made significant progress in achieving a lower volume of defalcations in 2010 and 2011, a significant source of claims in recent years. Additionally, Stewart has shown an improvement in its expense ratio as a result of several expense initiatives undertaken over the past three years.
However, Stewart's revenues and earnings in 2012 will be closely tied to the real estate market in the United States, which continues to remain weak, given slow output growth and continued high unemployment and foreclosure activity. As such, Stewart is challenged to show consistently profitable and sustainable operating performance in the near to medium term.
“While Stewart's current ratings and outlook are not expected to change in the near term, future upward movement on the ratings or a positive outlook are possible, if the company sustains its improved operating trend over the medium term, while maintaining favorable risk-adjusted capitalization,” A.M. Best reported. “Conversely, further volatility in operating performance and/or risk-adjusted capitalization may put renewed pressure on the current ratings and/or outlook.”
The FSR of B++ (Good) and ICRs of "bbb+" have been affirmed for the following members of Stewart Title Group:
Stewart Title Guaranty Co.
Stewart Title Insurance Co.
Stewart Title Limited
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A thief who showed up at a local attorney’s office to admit the raid because he wanted to be jailed was jailed for assaulting a homeless man the previous year.
ylan Deegan (24) was on bail for two previous thefts when he approached the Insomnia Café counter in Belgard Square West, Tallaght and asked for money at the cashier.
The staff, who later said they were scared, “threw € 100 at him” and he fled, said Garda Adrian O’Sullivan.
Gardaí arrived at the scene after the panic alarm was activated and circulated a description of the suspect, after viewing CCTV footage of the raid. They followed Deegan to the Square Mall in Tallaght where he was captured on CCTV getting into a taxi.
Gda O’Sullivan said they contacted the taxi driver after noting his license plate in the pictures and he told them where he dropped Deegan off.
A lawyer from a local law firm then contacted Gardaí and told him that a man had just entered the office and said he wanted to surrender because he had just committed a robbery.
Deegan was arrested and questioned. He said he stole money from the store and ran outside. He said he was “very suicidal”, a drug addict and wanted to be taken into custody.
Gda O’Sullivan confirmed that the money was never recovered and that Deegan was unarmed at the time of the theft.
Deegan of The Grove, Belgard Heights, Tallaght, Dublin 24 pleaded guilty in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the theft of a man at Back Lane Hostel on April 21, 2020. He further pleaded guilty to the theft € 684 from Cash for Clothes in Tallaght and production of a knife on July 2, 2020 and finally at the Insomnia robbery on February 17, 2021.
Deegan has been in pre-trial detention since February this year. He has 15 previous convictions for offenses including aggravated burglary, robbery, public order and assault.
On Tuesday, Judge Melanie Greally sentenced Deegan to three and a half years in prison for a violent assault in April 2020 after he and another man lured a homeless man into an alleyway.
The victim believed he was going to get drugs from the men.
Judge Greally noted that the victim was struck by both men and in the head before € 340 in cash was taken.
In a victim impact statement, the man said he had resumed antidepressants since the flight and had survived drug-free for six years.
He suffered cuts and bruises and had been “very tense” since the offense and struggled to motivate himself in his daily life.
Judge Greally noted that Deegan committed a second theft while on bail for the assault before raiding Insomnia while on bail again.
She noted that these two additional flights would have been consecutive to each other and the prison sentence she handed down on Tuesday.
She adjourned the conviction of the Insomnia robbery and the second robbery to October 19, 2021 and ordered a Probation Service report for that date.
John Griffin BL, defending, submitted a psychological report describing his client’s difficult childhood. He said Deegan felt abandoned, unwanted and unloved as a child and took medicine “to numb the pain”.
He said Deegan wrote letters of apology to each of his victims. “He has a deep sadness for what he has done. He’s honestly really sorry, ”Griffin said.
He said the offense was committed “in desperation to fund drug addiction.”
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She Went Missing Months Ago. They Found Her Body “Buried” Under The Trash In Her Home
By Alice Edwards - Updated December 4, 2021
Five months after police vigorously searched her residence, the remains of Emmy-winning production designer, Evelyn Sakash, have finally been found. The 66-year-old woman’s remains were found buried under a pile of trash inside her apartment. Cleaning crews were clearing out the property, which was filled with hordes of trash and various items when they found Sakash’s mummified remains under a pile of garbage.
Although New York Police Department officers had vigorously searched Sakash’s trash-filled apartment twice, they were not able to locate her body. It was not until cleaning crews started removing garbage and filth from the apartment that they were able to find the woman’s remains under a pile of garbage inside of her kitchen.
Last September, Sakash went missing. Her relative filed a missing person’s report from Nevada, thousands of miles from where Sakash lived alone in New York City. She resided in a home in the borough of Queens at the time of her disappearance. Now, her remains were found under a heap of garbage in her kitchen.
Police first searched Sakash’s home for forty-five minutes on October 18, 2020, but did not find anything. Instead, police arrived to find the Emmy-award-winning designer’s home loaded with garbage. In addition, police found four dogs and six cats, which were all relocated to a nearby animal shelter. However, police did not see any signs that Sakash had been kidnapped or that foul play had occurred.
The following day, police returned to the apartment with cadaver dogs. However, the animals were not able to sniff out Sakash’s remains from among the “floor to ceiling” piles of debris that littered every inch of the College Point-neighborhood residence.
On Friday, officers with the NYPD told The New York Daily News that they believed Sakash to have already been dead in the kitchen. Unfortunately, the stench of garbage throughout the home likely interfered with the cadaver dogs’ search for her remains in October.
At the time of her death, Sakash was a respected production designer and art director with more than thirty years of experience under her belt in the film and television industry. She was awarded a Daytime Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design because of the work she did for the children’s show Between the Lions. She received her Emmy win in 2003.
Her profile on IMDB includes credits for popular shows like Billions and Orange Is the New Black. She has also worked for Disney and MTV throughout her career.
Laraine Memola, a friend and neighbor of Sakash, said that her work dried up at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Her job gave her a purpose,” Memola said. In addition, the friend said that the recent death of Sakash’s mother also made things harder for her. “Evelyn always took care of her mom — her mom was here in College Point, in a nursing home. She’d always bring her food.”
“Between the pandemic, her job, her mom — it hit her hard,” said Memola. “Her mom’s funeral was at the height of the pandemic, and it was only her, a friend, and her nephew.”
What do you think about the details of this tragedy?
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Searching for accountability in the Holocaust Torah scrolls’ scam
Posted on February 8, 2012 in: American Gathering News, History, Trivializing the Holocaust|Jump To Comments
By Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants
I cannot for the life of me decide, with apologies to Shakespeare’s Lafeu in All’s Well That Ends Well, whether Rick Zitelman is a knave or a fool. Regardless, he has a great deal to answer for and should not be allowed to evade public excoriation. Zitelman is co-founder and president of Save a Torah, Inc., the purportedly charitable foundation through which the now disgraced Wheaton, Md., bookstore owner Menachem Youlus peddled what Youlus represented as Holocaust-era Torah scrolls he claimed to have “rescued” at great personal peril. Youlus, an Orthodox rabbi and sofer, or Torah scribe, told his well-intentioned but gullible marks, among other things, that he had found two such Torah scrolls buried in what he called a “Gestapo body bag” in a Ukrainian mass-grave of murdered Jews. He also boasted that he discovered another scroll under the floorboards of a barrack in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, a “rescue” that was described for years on the Save a Torah website alongside photographs taken at the camp at the time of its liberation by British troops in April 1945.
If these tales appear fanciful, the product of an over-active yet not particularly sophisticated imagination, it’s because they are precisely that. “Which is not to say,” as I first wrote on this site in January of 2010 after Martha Wexler and Jeff Lunden had first raised questions about Youlus’s operation in a Washington Post Magazine article, “that Youlus’s accounts could have withstood serious scrutiny. He apparently has never provided any provenance for the Torah scrolls he sold for thousands of dollars each. No reputable archivist, historian or Jewish community leader in Poland, Ukraine or Germany can substantiate any of his claims.
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About Angeli & Co
Angeli Cornelius became an agent in the late 1990s when she set up CSB Management after leaving her career as an Advertising Agency Director.
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November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson forward Kyle Casey (30) puts up a shot in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson forward Zena Edosomwan (4) tries to grab an errant pass in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson forward Zena Edosomwan (4) puts up a shot in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson guard/forward Wesley Saunders (23) brings the ball up the court against a TCU Horned Frogs defender in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson guard/forward Wesley Saunders (23) drives to the basket in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson forward Zena Edosomwan (4) looks to make a move against the TCU Horned Frogs defense in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson guard/forward Wesley Saunders (23) drives past TCU Horned Frogs guard Charles Hill Jr. (0) in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson and TCU Horned Frogs players battle for a rebound in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson guard Laurent Rivard (0) shoots a jumper in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson guard/forward Wesley Saunders (23) drives into the TCU Horned Frogs defense in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson forward Evan Cummins (33) puts up a shot in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson head coach Tommy Amaker talks to his team during a timeout in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson and TCU Horned Frogs come out of a timeout in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson guard/forward Wesley Saunders (23) shoots over TCU Horned Frogs guard Michael Williams (2) in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson forward Jonah Travis (24) and TCU Horned Frogs guard Christian Gore (13) battle for a rebound in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson forward Steve Moundou-Missi (14) puts up a shot in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: TCU Horned Frogs guard Jarvis Ray (22) passes the ball to a teammate after a scramble for the loose ball in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
November 30, 2013: Harvard Crimson guard Siyani Chambers (1) defends a TCU Horned Frogs shot attempt in the championship game of the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout between Harvard and TCU. Harvard defeated TCU 71-50.
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Biz & IT —
Microsoft issues takedown notices over spilled COFEE
Microsoft has issued takedown notices to multiple websites hosting the company …
Emil Protalinski - Nov 25, 2009 9:27 pm UTC
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Microsoft has been issuing takedown notices for publicly hosting its leaked Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) tool. The company sent off "Demand for Immediate Take-Down: Notice of Infringing Activity" to companies hosting websites that offered the tool. The e-mails all start with the following standard statement: "Microsoft has received information that the domain listed above, which appears to be on servers under your control, is offering unlicensed copies of, or is engaged in other unauthorized activities relating to copyrighted works published by Microsoft."
One of the websites that received legal threats from Redmond is Cryptome.org, a great repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. According to e-mail correspondences posted on Cryptome, Microsoft contacted Network Solutions, which hosts Cryptome, and since John Young, the owner of the website, wasn't too keen on losing his whole website for the sake of a single 15MB file, he removed the download link and sent Network Solutions a notice of compliance.
Every single Microsoft application that leaks out to the Web is available on BitTorrent networks and various underground corners of the Internet, and Microsoft can't really take care of all of them, though this move is consistent with the company's promise to pursue unauthorized distribution of its code. Of course, a few takedown notices will do little against those who really want to get their hands on the tool, though it will make it a tad harder to get at for those who are not very tech-savvy.
Microsoft first revealed the tool back in April 2008, and in April 2009, the company announced that it will aid global law enforcement in fighting cybercrime by providing its COFEE tool free of charge to International Criminal Police Organization's (Interpol) Global Security Initiative (GSI), a project that addresses international security challenges, and the participating 187 countries. Microsoft managed to keep the lid tightly sealed until earlier this month, when pirates decided it was time to leak the tool to the Web and let more than just government crime-fighters use it.
The COFEE application uses common digital forensics tools to help law enforcement officials at the scene of a crime gather volatile evidence of live computer activity that would otherwise be lost in a traditional offline forensic analysis. In other words, it lets officers grab data from password-protected or encrypted sources. The forensics tool works best with Windows XP but Microsoft is working on a new version of COFEE for next year that fully supports Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Hat tip to SFGate.
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"Ukraine is the victim of Russian aggression"
Submitted by AWL on 27 April, 2021 - 7:14
Peter Duncan is a professor at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at University College London. He spoke to Chris Ford of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. Many thanks to the campaign for allowing us to publish this interview, which we have abridged and tidied up slightly.
We have seen a build up of Russian Federation armed forces on Ukraine’s borders and in Crimea. There has been an escalation in East Ukraine since January. What is behind this?
There are 100,000 troops now surrounding Ukraine. The aim is to intimidate Ukraine, to try to persuade it, and the EU and NATO, to drop or adopt certain actions. I think these are the most important:
To abandon hope of getting back Crimea.
To prevent any attempt to move the Donbas “line of contact”.
To drop Ukraine’s aims of closer association with NATO and the EU; and to discourage other states in Russia’s “sphere of interests” from seeking such association, and to discourage NATO and the EU from further enlargement in the region.
To force Ukraine to implement its side of the Minsk agreements, in particular “federalisation”, involving more autonomy for oblasts.
To stop the pressure from [Ukrainian president] Volodymyr Zelensky on pro-Russian parts of the Ukrainian elite, most recently on Viktor Medvedchuk and the TV stations associated with people close to him.
To get Ukraine to restore water supplies to Crimea.
More generally, Vladimir Putin wants to punish Ukraine for the Maidan revolution of 2014, both for regime change and for international political realignment. In particular, Zelensky must be taught a lesson for suggesting that as the people of Ukraine had changed their leadership, so could the people of Russia.
Russia also wants to address Joe Biden from a position of apparent strength.
I would not rule out the possibility of a further invasion of Ukraine, beyond the existing territories of Crimea and parts of Donbas. Russia says that the exercises will be over in two weeks, but even if troops are withdrawn on this occasion the point will have been made about Russia’s capacity to mobilise rapidly.
Is Putin deliberately raising tensions, or is this a pretext for the western powers to escalate a more aggressive approach towards Russia?
Putin is clearly the instigator.
There is a widespread opinion in the Western left that the conflict is a response to Western expansionism, that there was a “fascist coup” in Ukraine, and the current tensions are due to Ukraine’s intransigence as regards peace.
Many people, not only on the left, including a House of Lords sub-committee, believe that the EU acted recklessly before and during 2013 in ignoring Russian interests in Ukraine with the policy of the Eastern Partnership. Undoubtedly there were fascists in the Maidan in 2013-14. The Poroshenko regime which led Ukraine from 2014 to 2019 rehabilitated and made a hero of the Ukrainian nationalist leader Bandera, who for a while cooperated with the Nazis during the Second World War. Nevertheless, the current tensions are mainly attributable to Russia’s policy, starting with the annexation of Crimea and then followed by forcible interventions in Southern and Eastern Ukraine, which began in 2014 and continue in Donbas today.
What has been the impact of the conflict with Ukraine on the Russian ruling class, and has there been a change within the elites towards Putin and policies of the Kremlin?
I suspect that the opposition to Putin’s Ukraine strategy from figures outside the regime but close to it, such as Alexei Kudrin, reflects wider concern at the impact of sanctions. So far, the regime has closed ranks on this.
I think the military has been becoming more influential in Russian foreign policy, from 2014, but Putin still controls it.
Is it right that Russia has sought to protect its business interests and influence in Ukraine, viewing it from the strategic perspective as part of the “greater Russian world”?
Yes. I think that the leadership now considers the projected sphere of influence to include the whole territory of the former Soviet Union, except for the Baltic States.
There was a resurgence of protests in Russia in opposition to Putin. Is this internal situation in Russia a significant factor in shaping the approach towards Ukraine?
No, the regime has dealt with the protests which have escalated since 2018 inside Russia by stepping up internal repression and by trying to kill Alexei Navalny. I think that some of the moves against Ukraine in 2014 reflected fears of protest inside Russia, but people tend to forget that the protest wave against the fraudulent State Duma elections of 2011 had been largely dealt with by 2013. Policy towards Ukraine has its own momentum, primarily related to events in Ukraine itself; and also to send signals to the peoples of other states such as Belarus, Georgia and Kazakhstan about the benefits of cooperating with Russia.
What is the attitude of the official opposition in Russia to the conflict with Ukraine?
The parties of the “systemic opposition”, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, “A Just Russia”, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s Liberal Democratic Party of Russia are all fully supportive of the Kremlin, and sometimes call for a tougher line. Zhirinovsky has not recognised Ukraine’s independence. The non-systemic opposition opposes the regime’s policy. Grigory Iavlinsky’s liberal party, Yabloko, which is legally registered, rejects the annexation. The unregistered liberal groups are also opposed; Boris Nemtsov, a leader of the Party of People’s Freedom, was about to expose the undeclared presence of Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine when he was murdered in 2015.
After seven years of conflict, what do you consider is the possible outcome?
The most likely is the continuation of the status quo, until either there is a change of regime in Russia or the Kremlin succeeds in pressuring Ukraine into accepting some of its aims. If Trump returned to office in 2024, this would facilitate the latter.
What should Western socialists say?
Socialists should oppose the authoritarian kleptocratic regime in Moscow and the oligarchic system in Kiev. But the Kremlin, with its blatant interference in the politics of liberal democracies and support of far-right groups, represents a danger to the Western left in a way that no Ukrainian regime ever could. Ukraine is clearly the victim of Russian aggression. Further, Putin’s increasingly vicious attack on those calling for human and democratic rights inside Russia needs to be opposed. Russians today do not want a war, whether it’s in Ukraine, Syria or Libya. They want a stop to their falling living standards and are more aware of the connection between corruption and their own socioeconomic position than they were before. Repression at home is aimed at silencing not only opponents of domestic policies, but also critics of the regime’s foreign policies.
Socialists should call for sanctions against the Kremlin, particularly against those responsible for the actions against Ukraine and for repressive internal policies. It is not easy for socialists to support the foreign policy actions of their own governments when they appear to be promoting international tension. But the threat to world peace now comes from China and Russia rather than from the liberal democracies, and some of these sanctions are aimed at removing the oppressors and warmakers. We should differentiate themselves from Conservative policies by highlighting how successive governments have encouraged Russian money, looted from the state, to find a safe home through City of London channels. In particular, we should expose the connections between figures linked with the Kremlin and some of the structures and leaders of the Conservative Party.
Socialists in Ukraine appeal for solidarity against Russian imperialism
An appeal from the Ukrainian socialist organisation Social Movement.
Russian troops out of Kazakhstan! For democracy and workers’ rights!
Pent-up anger against years of repressive kleptocracy has exploded in Kazakhstan, and...
Self-determination for Ukraine!
Marko Bojcun of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign spoke to us about the threat of conflict...
Free Igor Kuznetsov! Stop the repression of socialists in Russia!
Free Russian socialist and trade unionist Igor Kuznetsov!
Putin’s hands off Ukraine!
There are many complications in a potential Russia-Ukraine war. But it is clear that...
Solidarity 590, 28 April 2021Russia Ukraine
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Gene editing will cure cancer, HIV, young Kazakh biotechnologist and Famelab winner says
By Meruyert Abugaliyeva in People on 20 March 2018
ASTANA – Genetically modified living organisms might sound like fiction today, but in the not-too-distant future, genome modification will be used to edit DNA and treat human diseases like cancer and HIV, Kazakh biotechnologist Galymzhan Tleboldinov says.
Galymzhan Tleboldinov.
The new method for such gene editing, CRISPR, helped Tleboldinov win the national stage of Famelab 2018, a popular science communications competition held by the British Council.
“Indeed, the CRISPR/Cas9 system existed even before the first human appeared on Earth, as it is based on the ancient immune system of bacteria. In the 1980s, scientists found small pieces in DNA not belonging to living organisms under study. Later it became known that these pieces belonged to viruses – but the reason for their presence was still unknown. Only in 2012 did scientists conclude that these pieces were deliberately preserved by bacteria after the first attack of a particular virus. This was done in order for the bacteria to use that DNA piece to destroy the virus if it attacked again later. This system is now studied and improved for drug development, agriculture, and the treatment of genetic diseases, such as HIV and cancer,” he explained in an interview with The Astana Times.
The method was first proposed for gene editing in 2012 by Jennifer Doudna, a professor at University of California (UC) Berkeley. At that time, Tleboldinov was studying biotechnology at UC Davis, where he was a student from 2012 to 2016.
“Biotechnology was developing rapidly at that time and professors were up to date with new publications and always informed us about them. There, I was always in the know. CRISPR/Cas9 was a breakthrough, attracting a lot of interest. People, however, are still interested in it and since the topic was thoroughly researched in my university, I decided to tell about it at Famelab,” he said.
Tleboldinov’s video about the gene editing process took 11th place among 240 entries in the first stage of the competition. Fortunately for him, one participant decided to withdraw, allowing the young biotechnologist to join the national competition.
“During the competition, I learned that sometimes it does not matter how smart you are. I almost failed to make it to the national stage, because I was trying to show how much I knew. The point of Famelab is to deliver your speech in a clear way for your audience, and to attract interest. There is plenty of information on the internet; scientists must be able to communicate their knowledge to the public,” he added.
Tleboldinov was particularly impressed by the competition participants.
“I was surprised by the participants, as they are highly qualified and the overall level of preparation was great. Most of them are either in a research group investigating their topics or somehow related to the topic. Moreover, there was no sense of rivalry, as we helped each other prepare for presentation,” he added. Tleboldinov currently works at the National Centre for Science and Technology Evaluation.
“My work entails locating respected experts and contacting them to provide feedback for funding applications in biotechnology and agriculture. The nature of the work is closer to management, and in the future, I do not want to be just a researcher in a lab. I want to work on collaboration between researchers, as I feel that we have plenty of talented scientists but there is not proper management in research,” he added.
As a winner of the national stage, Tleboldinov was invited to represent Kazakhstan in the international round of Famelab in London.
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My Breakfast With Blassie (1983)
Classy. The Hollywood Fashion Plate. The King of Men. You know, when I was a young kid, I saw an older Fred Blassie as a wrestling manager and he always made me so happy, this gruff older man barking at the camera. But I didn’t know about the man who filed his teeth coming off a plane in Japan, the vampire who bit Rikidozan. I didn’t know that his first match was a shoot where he fought a wrestler with no training just to impress a girl he brought to the fair. I didn’t know that he was such a ruthless villain that he got acid thrown at him.
I was also a big fan of Andy Kaufman as a kid. I didn’t know how much of him was real and how much was an act. You know, I’d still like to have that level of the unknown in my life. Andy taught me that failure and weirdness and danger can be hilarious.
It just stands to reason that these two men would rip off My Dinner With Andre in a Sambo’s restaurant, as Freddie and Andy would have breakfast and make fun of every single person around them. I love the idea that this film presents, that Andy is pretty much unsure about being a heel while Blassie is a genuine hater of all humanity.
Johnny Legend brought this together. He helped Blassie record some of his famous songs, like “Pencil Neck Geek,” which were often heard on Dr. Demento. His sister Lynne is also in this movie. This is where she’d meet Andy, who she would start dating.
Legend is also related to a moment in adult film history, as he was the man who was charged with cutting out the moments of Long Jeanne Silver using her appendage on a male star in her starring movie, Alex De Renzy’s Long Jeanne Silver. He’s also in the Australian softcore movie Fantasm Comes Again, Pot, Parents And Police, Bride of Re-Animator, Children of the Corn III, Severed Ties, and (Young Hot ‘n Nasty) Teenage Cruisers.
If you want to watch Fred Blassie flip out on people not prepared for his brutal ways, watch this on Tubi. PS — I realize that Bob Zmuda is a plant, as are many of the people sitting around, but just enjoy the movie.
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The Foretold Future of Farming
The practice of monocropping comes at a great environmental and social cost but small farms are providing a source of hope for the future of agriculture.
Post author By Mary O'Boyle
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How often do you wonder where your food comes from? This question is rarely at the forefront of our minds simply because it doesn’t have to be. As a population that shops primarily at local supermarkets, we largely consume food that travels from monocrops across the country and the world. But the environment is changing quickly, and agricultural practices will be forced, for better or worse, to change alongside it.
In the United States alone, farming utilizes approximately 922 million acres of land. While small, family-owned farms account for a portion of this land, they are being crowded out by larger operations at alarming rates. Larger operations and the growth of a single crop on the same land year after year, or monocropping, bring higher yields and increased efficiency in both planting and harvesting. This contributes to the lower prices and a seemingly unlimited supply found in supermarkets, but it comes at a great environmental and social cost.
“In the rush to industrialize farming, we’ve lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity,” wrote chef and activist Dan Barber in his book The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food. Large-scale monoculture farming eliminates mutualistic relationships necessary to the health of a plant and the environment that supports it. Soil depletion, a lack of resilience in the face of environmental extremes, decreased plant diversity, and a loss of livelihood all come as a result of our “rush to industrialize farming.” However, the cohort of small, family-owned farms across the country and right here in Boston are voices of reason. In the midst of a culture that can’t or won’t recognize the realities of the future of agriculture, their opinions stand out.
Between Philadelphia suburbs and New Jersey beach towns lies Sorbello Girls Farm Market, a family-owned farm and farm stand selling their produce and local products since 1961. “The main crops that we grow are some of the local crops that farmers in the area grow which are tomatoes, eggplant, bell peppers, we do a lot of basil, a lot of aromatics,” said Billy Conners, MCAS ‘21, in a recent interview.
Image courtesy of @bullockgarden on Instagram
Reflecting on the future of his family’s farm, Conners stated, “Personally, our farm won’t exist in ten years, but I think that’s a trend you’re seeing everywhere. There’s no real competition because we can’t afford to compete with these bigger farms.” There is no longer an economic incentive to farm on a small scale, leaving farmers with no choice but to give up their livelihood and leave a gap within our agricultural system.
Small farms, in contrast to larger farms that rely on monoculture, are working towards changing the future of agriculture. By emphasizing its commitment to soil fertility and growth without pesticides, Allandale Farm in Brookline, MA appeals to and draws its support from a growing population of agriculturally- and environmentally-conscious consumers. “Our growing practices are deeply linked to our role as land stewards and neighbors,” writes Allandale farm about their greater purpose. The commitment to the land and consumers from farms such as Allandale offers hope for the continuation of small farms that prioritize plant diversity and soil health.
Image courtesy of Boston Magazine
As a consumer, there is a great deal of power that comes with deciding where to spend your money. But with this power comes an obligation to support those who are fighting for a sustainable future. “Shop local,” Conners urged. “Produce is going to look a lot different in the future and in order to ensure that a lot of people have a livelihood and your produce stays local, you have to shop local. That’s the only solution.”
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Posts Tagged ‘‘Dredd’’
Trailer for Movie of HP Lovecraft’s ‘The Colour out of Space’
I found this trailer for a forthcoming movie version of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story, The Colour out of Space, over on YouTube. It stars Nicholas Cage and is directed by Richard Stanley.
Lovecraft was a master of cosmic horror, and the creator of the Cthulu mythos about malign, alien gods that seeped down from the stars untold aeons ago. Although they were banished from Earth by the ancient Elder Races, they are constantly seeking ways back. And when the stars are right, and the sunken city of R’lyeh rises from the deep, Cthulhu, the bat-winged, octopus-headed god will rule over a mankind reveling and killing. And in untold aeons even death may die.
The trailer says it marks the return of Stanley to directing. This is welcome news. He made an excellent film about a berserk robot going on the rampage in a decaying future, Hardware, back in 1989. 2000AD sued and won for plagiarism, as the film’s plot appeared to be stolen from a short story from comic, ‘Shocc!’, drawn by the master of macabre art, Kevin O’Neill. This was about an explorer, who finds a war robot and gives it to his girlfriend. It then comes back to life, and goes on the rampage. The film has cameos with Lemmy, a member of the Goth band The Mission, and Iggy Pop as the DJ, Angry Bob, and the soundtrack includes Motorhead’s ‘Ace of Spades’, The Mission’s ‘Power’ and Pil’s ‘Order of Death’. There’s a reference to the earlier film in the trailer. A shot of the family’s kitchen shows a framed Biblical quotation, ‘No flesh shall be spared’. This was also used in Hardware to explain the B.A.A.L. robot’s genocidal mission to exterminate all humanity.
Stanley disappeared from directing movies, although he continued to make documentaries and pop videos, after the debacle of a version of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau. Stanley originally intended it to be a relatively low budget film, but the studio wanted a big star. Stanley chose Marlon Brando. Big mistake. Once in the movie, Brando proceeded to do his best to wreck it through bizarre demands and massively arrogant behaviour. There was a documentary made about this whole shambles a few years ago. One of the actresses provided an example of Brando’s weird, cavalier attitude to the film. She went to him to ask the great Hollywood star for acting tips. He told her to carry on doing whatever she liked, because it didn’t matter as the film would be shut down in three weeks anyway. He also asked a member of the production crew if they should ‘f**k with’ one of the producers. When the man asked why, as the producer was a good guy, Brando made a very lame excuse. It’s pretty clear from this that Brando didn’t have any respect for the film. With costs and time overrunning, Stanley was sacked, and a veteran Hollywood director brought in instead to salvage something from the mess. The result apparently is a competent film, but it’s not the really amazing movie that would have appeared if Stanley had been able to complete it according to his vision.
It’s a pity that there was that plagiarism case between 2000AD and Stanley over Hardware. 2000AD want to produce films based on their characters. Two films have been made of ‘Judge Dredd’, but both have performed less than expected at the box office. The most recent, 2012’s Dredd, starring Karl Urban, was a critical success. There’s too much enmity there, but I’d say that if anyone could direct a great movie based on 2000AD’s cast of heroes, Stanley is the man for the job.
Looking at the trailer for the movie, it seems to have rejected Lovecraft’s original plot for the Hollywood cliche of a happy American family that moves into a rural area, only to find something sinister and threatening. It’s a long time since I read the original story, but I don’t think it’s the one Lovecraft wrote. Still, it looks like it could be a really good film, even if it is somewhat less than faithful to Lovecraft.
And to show everyone what Stanley’s Hardware was like, here’s a video for Pil’s ‘Order of Death’ using clips from the film from Hert Zollner’s channel on YouTube.
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Zarjaz! Documentary about 2000 AD!
Borag Thungg, Earthlets! As the Mighty Tharg used to say. I found over at Moria, the Science Fiction Film and Television database, a review of the 2014 documentary Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD, directed by Paul Goodwin, and made by Stanton Media/Deviant Films. The film tells the story of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, and the crew of recidivist cultural deviants, who responsible, amongst other offences, for bringing the world Judge Dredd, Mega-City 1’s toughest lawman. Among those speaking in the movie are the mighty comics creators Pat Mills, Kevin O’Neill, Brian Bolland, Neil Gaiman, Carlos Ezquerra, John Wagner, Dave Gibbon, Bryan Talbot, Alan Grant, Grant Morrison, Cam Kennedy and Karl Urban, who played Dredd in the movie of the same name a few years ago.
The Moria review sets the origins of the comic in the context of Britain in the late 70s and early 80s, when Margaret Thatcher was in power, unemployment was at three million and the National Front was on the march. 2000 AD appeared following the cancellation of Action, a previous comic that had been banned after parents’ concerns that it was too violent. The team assembled to produce the new comic were partly drawn from those responsible for Action, like Mills, and the new comic definitely had a subversive edge. It was partly reacting against the old Fleetway children’s comics, whose stories were very safe. It takes its title from a series of unrelated bizarre stories, ‘Tharg’s Future Shocks’. As I recall, the strip in which these stories were first announced set the tone by showing a jaded, spoiled sprog, defiantly unimpressed with the previous offerings from British comics, who is then taken by Tharg to see the terrible and dangerous visions that the Future Shock strips will introduce. This is too much for the enfant terrible, and the traumatised brat is led away to received much-needed medical care, while Tharg urges them to ‘treat him gently’. An example of the strong subversive theme running through the comic is Dredd himself. Dredd was deliberately intended to be something of an ambivalent hero, a parody of Fascistic US policing. The Moria review notes that the more extreme Dredd became, the more popular he was, to the point where Carlos Ezquerra didn’t want to continue drawing the character after producing the original design. This probably shouldn’t be too surprising, as Ezquerra had as his inspiration for Dredd’s uniform that of Franco’s Fascists with their helmets and shoulder pads, though the review doesn’t mention this. John Wagner, Dredd’s creator, was always insistent that the character should never take off his helmet and show his face, as he was the symbol of the faceless police state.
The review discusses 2000 AD’s role as the first British comic to credit the artists and writers, and how this led to a brain drain as their leading creators were then lured off by the big American comic firms like Vertigo. I don’t think 2000 AD were quite the first. I think a few years before then the war comic, Battle, had also started to credit the people creating the strips. It also covers the magazine’s drop in quality and popularity in the 1990s, and then it’s revival under Matt Smith. It notes that all of the creators interviewed saw the comic as edgy, subversive and individualistic. This is certainly born out by some of the comments made in the movie’s trailer, which is also included in the review. This features the various writers and illustrators remarking on the comic and what they intended to achieve with it. Several of them, such as one by Pat Mills, are along the lines that the comics company really didn’t know what was about to hit them.
I don’t think they did. 2000 AD was never as controversial as Action, but nevertheless there were concerns occasionally that the comic was too violent. It did, however, produce some of the greatest comic strips that are still going thirty years later, like the ABC Warriors, Slaine, Nemesis the Warlock, Strontium Dog, The Ballad of Halo Jones, and, of course, Judge Dredd. The future’s ultimate cop was hailed at the time by the space fact magazine, New Voyager, as the Dan Dare for the 1980s. High praise indeed!
The review also talks about the three films or so have that were released based on the comic. These include the two Judge Dredd films, Judge Dredd, which appeared in the 1990s with Sylvester Stallone playing Dredd; and Dredd, which came out a couple of years ago, with Karl Urban in the title role. They also include Richard Stanley’s Hardware, which was taken uncredited from Shok!, a short story told by Dredd’s mechanical friend, Walter the Wobot. 2000 AD took the film’s producers to court in plagiarism case, and won. The film’s producers were forced to credit the 2000 AD strip, though I think Stanley still maintains that he didn’t steal the idea from 2000 AD. Of the two Dredd films, the first is considered a disaster, while the second was a hit with both audiences and the strip’s creators, who praise the movie in the film. Stanley’s Hardware is also a classic of low budget SF film-making, and has rightly received wide praise. It was made in 1989, but still looks good a quarter of a century and more later, and its relatively high quality of design and production makes it appear that it had a bigger budget than it actually had. Stanley’s career as a cinema director I think ended after he was sacked from directing the 1990s remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau. This was at least partly the result of the utterly bizarre behaviour of Marlon Brando, who took the part of Moreau. There’s also a film about the making of that movie, which shows just how bonkers and extremely difficult to work with Brando was, to the point where filming at time degenerated something close to farce. it’s a pity, as Stanley was and is a talented film-maker with fresh, interesting concepts. If things were ideal, he and 2000 AD would ideally make their peace, and he should produce a film based on some of the comics’ other strips. But this ain’t an ideal world, and so that very definitely won’t happen.
I don’t know if the documentary is available on YouTube, and I don’t recall having seen it on the shelves of HMV, but it might be worth checking out your local comics shop, like Forbidden Planet.
The Moria review can be read at: http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/future-shock-the-story-of-2000ad-2014.htm
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Bugbots – Military Nano Drones, and a Warning from Polish SF Author Stanislaw Lem
This is another interesting – and chilling – video I found on Youtube. It’s a promotional film from one of the US aerospace contractors talking up nanorobotic drones. This is drones about the size of a small bird or children’s toy helicopters. The video hypes their use for gather intelligence, both singly and in swarms like insects. It also states that they may be used to kill enemy soldiers or combatants.
We’re already using miniature drones like those above to gather information in Afghanistan.
This video shows British soldiers talking about the Black Hornet nano drone, which can be controlled in the same way you can operate a playstation.
I find this chilling, as it starts to confirm a prediction the Polish Science Fiction author, Stanislaw Lem made, about the future direction of military technology in the 1980s/90s. Lem was impressed by the increasing power and intelligence of computers, and predicted that eventually this would effect even politics. The short story played with the idea that political parties would compete to show the electorate that they had the best computer, and therefore the best solutions to the country’s problems.
He also believed that as weapons and equipment, such as planes, ships and tanks became increasingly sophisticated, so they would also become prohibitively expensive. As a result, government would turn to miniaturisation, using swarms of extremely small robots to attack their enemies.
This would result in a global situation that was neither war nor peace, as it would be unclear whether natural disasters, such as, for example, devastation of crops by bad weather or insect swarms, were genuine or caused by enemy robot intervention.
Fortunately, we haven’t got to the point where politics is decided by which party has the biggest, cleverest computer. I think if that point every comes, we may as well say goodbye to democracy and just hand the world over to Microsoft, IBM or Apple. Military technology and equipment is becoming more expensive, and in Britain we are seeing extensive cuts which may well harm our ability to fight and win wars. However, American politics is strongly coloured by the arms and other industries sponsoring politicians campaigns, in return for them continuing to receive extremely generous subsidies from the taxpayer. I really don’t see the Americans cutting back on their military spending anytime soon, still less Russia and China.
And with miniature killer drones disguised as insects, it really does look like the frowning Polish grandmaster of SF was right about the use of such robots, and the highly uncertain hostile and militarised ‘peace’ that would arise through their use.
Here’s another video, this time from Reason TV, giving three reasons why the use of drones is a bad idea.
The transcript for the video on its Youtube page runs
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may not agree on much, but they’re both totally into the use of unmanned aircraft known as drones to hunt down and kill real and imagined threats to the American way of life.
Whenever you’ve got top Democrats and top Republicans getting along, you know something has gone horribly wrong.
Here are three reasons why drone strikes are really freaking scary.
1. They’re not that accurate.
One of the main selling points of drone strikes is their supposedly surgical precision. Rather than carpet-bombing entire city blocks to nail one or two bad guys, now we can just zap them without harming anyone else.
But a new study from researchers at NYU and Stanford concludes that as many 881 civilians – including 176 children – have been killed by US drone strikes in northern Pakistan since 2004. Worse still are reports that targets get blasted repeatedly, to ward off rescuers from helping the wounded.
2. There’s no legal framework.
Drone strikes have been carried out in countries with whom we’re allies or against whom we’ve yet to declare war. They are the principal way in which President Obama’s infamous “kill list” is made operational and yet nobody knows how such decisions are being made. As The New York Times said earlier this year, “a unilateral campaign of death is untenable.”
Not only is such a campaign immoral on its face, it only damages America’s standing in the world.
3. It’s only going to get worse.
The Federal Aviation Administration estimates that in 20 years, as many as 30,000 drones could be filling the skies over America, doing everything from promoting local restaurants to executing warrantless snooping for local, state, and federal cops. That includes “nano drones,” that will the size of a small flying insect. As it stands, the taxpaying public has basically zero information on how many drones are being used by which parts of government.
That’s led the ACLU to file a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to find out more about the technical capabilities of drones and what parts of government are already up there in the wild blue yonder.
We need to force the government to be transparent on drones long before the machines start blotting out the sun.
This is powerful technology that clearly is a real threat to the freedom of the countries using them, as well as being unethical and counterproductive when used against the enemy. And the secrecy surrounding them should be real cause for concern.
It’s no accident that the first appearance of something like a drone – an airborne camera to spy on citizens – made its appearance as long ago as the 1980s in 2000 AD’s Judge Dredd. And a drone can also be seen flying around in the opening scenes of the Dredd movie that came out a few years ago, starring Karl Urban. Dredd is the ultimate lawman, but he’s also a deliberately ambiguous figure. John Wagner in an interview around 1983 or so stated that he would never take off his helmet because he represents the faceless police state.
When real life starts to resemble the nightmare black comedy of Megacity 1, you know something’s gone very seriously wrong.
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By Jessica Galang Canadian Startup News November 22, 2016
As Wattpad celebrates 10th birthday, CEO Allen Lau shares Netflix-like ambitions
Lau co-founded Wattpad in 2006 alongside Ivan Yuen.
In 2007, Allen Lau and his close friend Ivan Yuen were a year into building out their vision for a mobile reading platform called Wattpad. The two initially teamed up after discovering that they were building similar things; Allen Lau, an avid reader, built a mobile reading app for the Motorola Razr, while Yuen had done the same with a twist, building a website where people could also share their own writing.
“The thesis was that digital reading is very different than what we have at the time and we believe the business model would be very unconventional and disruptive, but we didn’t know what that would be,” Lau says today.
“We want to build a company that rivals some of the biggest internet companies in the world.”
Eager for traction, the company focused on importing 17,000 public domain books like Pride and Prejudice to attract a user base, with the hope that they would turn into an audience of people writing original content, monetizing through advertising. But with only about 1,000 users at the time, Yuen and Lau managed to snag a grand total of $2 from Google.
“It was depressing. It was clear the business wasn’t working. We almost gave up, but we believed in our idea, and we believed in investing more,” said Lau, who juggled working on Tira Wireless while trying to make Wattpad work.
Most entrepreneurs, at least once, face the question of whether or not to give up on the company they’ve poured in endless time and emotional labour into when it’s clear what they’re doing isn’t working. For the entrepreneurs that choose to soldier on, sometimes their idea doesn’t pay off without a pivot. Sometimes, the world isn’t yet ready to embrace the idea. For Lau and Yuen, it was definitely the latter.
That same year, the iPhone was released, setting the stage for a new generation of user-friendly mobile products for reading (for comparison, the Motorola Razr could only let users read eight lines of text at a time, which wasn’t ideal for longform reading). After Wattpad built its iPhone app, the download numbers grew every day, and the company was finally seeing its day-one focus on traction become reality. By 2011, the company would finally hit one million users.
Today is Wattpad’s 10th birthday. The company now has 45 million monthly active users, of which 2 million are writers. Collectively, they’ve uploaded 15 million chapters of stories in the last 30 days.
“More or less, it worked out as we envisioned. We knew the details would be very different, but in 2006, remember there was no iPhone, Android, no mobile internet. The infrastructure wasn’t there,” said Lau, who is now CEO of Wattpad. Yuen is chief product officer. “What we learned was that we had to iterate and we had to believe in the vision knowing that some of the building blocks may not be ready for us. That once we built the foundation of the company, when those infrastructures beyond our control are in place, we could establish this.”
“Building a very positive community has always been our vision and mission. And for us to build a company to support that, we also have to act the same way.”
The company looks very different today, as it’s now taken to focusing on monetizing this critical mass of content through divisions like Wattpad Brands, which allows brands to connect with users, and Wattpad Studios, which focuses on partnering with the entertainment industry to co-produce Wattpad stories adapted to print, film, and television. Its latest endeavour, announced today, includes a partnership with Universal Cable Productions, a division of NBCUniversal.
UCP will produce a number of television projects derived from Wattpad content across multiple categories including mystery/thriller, teen, science fiction, action, and general fiction.
Lau said that what’s kept Wattpad’s users coming back is the community — a deliberate focus for Wattpad, with 40 percent of its 125-person team focused solely on interacting with influencers and users.
“People are positive and supportive, and you won’t find a lot of negative comments. It’s not that they don’t exist, but it’s a very small percentage,” he said. “Building a very positive community has always been our vision and mission. And for us to build a company to support that, we also have to act the same way.”
Lau stresses that Wattpad focuses on hiring for cultural fit, but though this doesn’t mean that everyone is culturally identical. “If a company is lacking diversity… because everyone has blind spots, and if the employee base is similar in terms of thinking and perspective, then naturally the blind spots will be larger.”
The company’s traffic is split fairly evenly between North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe, making its Toronto headquarters the perfect place to build a team of people coming from all over the world. Wattpad’s team is 52 percent female and 48 percent male, though the company hopes to have more specific numbers on the cultural makeup of its company for 2017.
“People with different cultural backgrounds see things differently, and it’s a good thing because the community we’re building is also very diverse,” Lau said. “We need to build a team with cultural sensitivity in the company just like our users.”
As it celebrates its 10-year milestone, Wattpad’s focus is turning from leveraging its extensive community to becoming a full-stack entertainment company. Lau gives the example of After, the most popular story on Wattpad, which was published into a book through Simon & Schuster. After has sold five million copies worldwide, and is now being developed into a movie by Paramount.
Lau wants to build more franchises like this, and get to the point where they can distribute this type of high-production media like TV shows and movies through the Wattpad platform. “If we look at how the entertainment industry works, whether it’s Netflix, Hollywood, or a YouTube web series, the start of it is a great story. We have tens of millions of those,” Lau said. “We can turn them into movie scripts or screenplays and then we would hold a camera, we would turn them into visual content, and we would distribute it on Wattpad.”
Now that Lau believes that Wattpad has fulfilled its vision of revolutionizing the way people read and write, he jokes that he feels like he’s running a brand new startup, building an entertainment company from the ground up. But Lau says that Wattpad’s user base is already larger than the entire publishing industry combined, and he believes that it’s now just a matter of building a library of premium content owned by Wattpad that it can distribute.
“We know that if we get this right, this company will be long-lasting because people will write for the next 200 years — or forever,” Lau said, adding that he hopes that Wattpad’s story can inspire Toronto-based entrepreneurs to build in the city.
“We believe our total audience would be increased by an order of magnitude in the next ten years. We’re already at 45 million, so 100 million would not be that difficult. Whether or not we can achieve half a billion or a billion in ten years remains to be seen. But this is how big we want this company to be. We want to be building a company that rivals some of the biggest internet companies in the world.”
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Worth a Thousand Words
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Chris Vandenbrook wanted photographs of the condition of the marital home to be admitted into evidence in his divorce trial, but the chancellor refused unless he could pinpoint the exact date when they were taken. Chris appealed.
His case highlights two important evidentiary considerations: First, that the foundation for admission of a photograph is simply evidence sufficient to to support a finding that it is a true depiction of what the offeror purports it to be; and Second, that you are not likely to get a chancellor reversed based on her evidentiary rulings.
Here is how Judge Carlton of the COA spelled it out in Vandenbrook v. Vandenbrook, decided March 26, 2019:
¶40. Next, Chris contends that the chancellor erred in not admitting photographs of the condition of the marital home into evidence. The chancellor refused to allow the
photographs into evidence unless Chris could state the precise date the photographs had been taken. Chris had previously testified that he began taking the photographs at the time Emma filed for divorce, but he did not have his cell phone with the photographs present, and the chancellor did allow him more time to retrieve it. He contends that he satisfied the requirements of Mississippi Rules of Evidence 1001(d) and 901(b)(l) and therefore the chancellor should have allowed the photographs into evidence.
¶41. A chancellor’s decision not to admit evidence will not be overturned unless the chancellor abused her discretion to such an extent that a party has been prejudiced. In re Estate of Laughter, 23 So. 3d 1055, 1064 (¶42) (Miss. 2009). By asking Chris to authenticate the photographs by verifying the dates they were taken, the chancellor was merely requiring that Chris produce sufficient evidence to support a finding that the photographs were what he claimed they were.
¶42. We find error, albeit harmless error, in the chancellor not admitting the photographs into evidence. Mississippi Rule of Evidence 901(a) states: “To satisfy the requirement of authenticating or identifying an item of evidence, the proponent must produce evidence sufficient to support a finding that the item is what the proponent claims it is.” Chris testified that he started taking the photographs from the time that Emma filed for divorce, and he testified that he took all the pictures himself. He further testified that they depict the condition of the marital home during a time that Emma was living there. We find that his testimony was sufficient to satisfy Rule 901(a) and that the court should have admitted the photographs. Even so, “[i]n order for a case to be reversed on the admission or exclusion of evidence, it must result in prejudice and harm or adversely affect a substantial right of a party.” Bower v. Bower, 758 So. 2d 405, 415 (¶46) (Miss. 2000). Although we find error, we deem it to be harmless. “The chancellor has the sole responsibility to determine the credibility of witnesses and evidence, and the weight to be given each.” Lee v. Lee, 798 So. 2d 1284, 1288 (¶14) (Miss. 2001). With this precedent in mind, we do not find that the exclusion of the photographs would have affected the chancellor’s custody determination.
I agree with Judge Carlton that the chancellor was saying, in effect, that she was not satisfied with the foundation that Chris had laid. She may have questioned whether the photos really did show the condition at the time that Chris was claiming, and she wanted more detailed proof. Or, it could be that a difference of a day or two when the pictures were taken could have made a difference. We don’t know from the record.
A previous post about how to get a photograph into evidence is at this link.
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Identifying Unnamed Online Speakers Just Got Easier
Identifying Unnamed Online Speakers Just Got Easier --
New case limits protection of anonymous speech in private Internet forum
NEW JERSEY LAW JOURNAL, MAY 13, 2013 VOL. 211 - NO 19
By Jonathan Bick Bick is of counsel at Brach Eichler LLC in Roseland. He is also an adjunct professor at Pace and Rutgers law schools, and the author of 101 Things You Need to Know About Internet Law (Random House 2000).
The “Dendrite test,” which came out of Dendrite v. Doe, 775 A.2d 756 (N.J. App. 2001), has discouraged lawsuits whose real objective is identifying anonymous speakers. Prior to Dendrite, thousands of lawsuits were filed each year seeking to identify Internet speakers, and enforcement of subpoenas was almost automatic. Since Dendrite, both the number of lawsuits designed
to indentify Internet speakers and the automatic nature of the enforcement of those subpoenas has declined due to the broad application of Dendrite. Recently, the court in Warren Hospital v. John Does (1-10), Docket No. A-4119-11T4 ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. April 2013), has limited the application of Dendrite. Like Dendrite, the Warren Hospital ruling has ramifications beyond New Jersey.
In Dendrite, a computer software seller brought a John Doe lawsuit against individuals who had anonymously posted criticisms of the company on a Yahoo! message board. The court rejected one of Dendrite’s requests to compel Yahoo! to reveal the identity of an anonymous defendant. The appellate court upheld the district court’s decision and, in doing so, created the Dendrite test. The test is an assemblage of guidelines for determining the circumstances under which an anonymous Internet speaker may be identified by a third party.
The Dendrite test requires plaintiffs to provide notice to the potential defendants and confer said potential defendants an opportunity to defend their anonymity; specify the statements that
allegedly violate the plaintiff’s rights; plead a claim that could survive a motion to dismiss; and produce evidence supporting each element of the claim. Until recently, New Jersey courts formulaically limited a plaintiff’s access to information held by an Internet Service
Provider (ISP) through the application of Dendrite.
The Warren Hospital court found that the protections afforded by the use of the Dendrite test are limited. Only an Internet speaker who uses a public, rather than private, Internet forum should be
protected from the enforcement of subpoenas that allow the ISP’s disclosure of the Internet speaker’s identity.
Based on the First Amendment right to speak anonymously, and recognizing that First Amendment rights cannot be infringed without a compelling state interest, courts have used the
Dendrite test. It has been argued that the Dendrite test is flexible because it allows the court to balance the interests of the plaintiff, who claims to have been wronged, against the interest in
anonymity of the Internet speaker, who claims his alleged wrong should not be subject to litigation.
The Dendrite test provides for a preliminary determination based on a case-by-case, individualized assessment of the equities. It attempts to overcome the choice between protecting anonymity or allowing victims to obtain redress for real harms, by examining the aspect of the alleged bad act without requiring the defendant to be identified.
Ideally, it allows Internet speakers who make wrongful statements about others to be appropriately prosecuted. Simultaneously, it upholds appropriate anonymity as permitted by the First Amendment.
The court in Dendrite set forth a four-part test for determining when a plaintiff, who is purportedly defamed on a public message board, can obtain discovery from an ISP which would reveal the identity of the person connected to the Internet Protocol address that is associated with the defamatory content. In Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission, 447 U.S. 557 (1980), the trial court applied the four-part Dendrite test to John Doe defendants
who broke into the plaintiff’s computer system and posted defamatory statements. Based on this application, the trial court quashed a subpoena to Verizon Communications. The Appellate Division reversed the trial court.
The appeals court acknowledged that the First Amendment protects free speech of anonymous persons, including on the Internet. However, the court found that the Dendrite criteria were designed to address a public message board, while this case involved persons who hacked
into a private computer system. Consequently, the different facts warranted a different result.
In particular, the court found that the defendants’ electronic actions were no different than if they had broken into the plaintiff’s work place and painted their messages on the hospital’s walls.
By doing so, the court rejected the defendants’ claim that such activity is entitled to First Amendment protection of their anonymity through a strict application of the Dendrite test. Thus, the appellate court found that at least one of the alleged statements would survive a motion
to dismiss the complaint; the subpoena to Verizon Communications should not have been quashed.
The Warren Hospital ruling is likely to be considered outside of New Jersey, just as Dendrite has been considered. The Dendrite test has since been applied to other cases throughout the United States, such as: Mobilisa, Inc. v. Doe, 170 P.3d 712 (Ariz. 2007); Independent Newspapers
v. Brodie, 966 A.2d 432 (Md 2009); and Krinsky v. Doe 6, 72 Cal. Rptr. 3d 231 (Ct. App. 2008).
In each of these cases, the courts have held that the qualified privilege to speak anonymously requires the trial court to balance the equities and rights at issue. By doing so, they are ensuring that a plaintiff alleging defamation has a valid reason for piercing the speaker’s anonymity. Similarly, the Warren Hospital case will encourage the adoption of the policy that only an
Internet speaker who uses a public, rather than private, Internet forum should be protected
from the enforcement of subpoenas that allow the ISP to disclose the Internet speaker’s identity.
Recently, the Michigan Court of Appeals (Case No. 307426 Ingham Circuit Court LC No. 11-000781-CZ) found a trial court erred when it allowed the Thomas M. Cooley Law School to unmask an anonymous Internet critic.
This decision by the Michigan Court of Appeals is part of an ongoing dispute between a blogger and his former school. Thomas M. Cooley Law School sued an anonymous blogger who posted comments on the blog, defamed the school and intentionally interfered with the law school’s business opportunities.
The appellate court’s ruling was a victory for the blogger. He may be able to use this ruling as a basis for dismissal of the complaint against him.
Initially, Cooley did not know who was behind the blog, and its legal team issued a subpoena seeking his identity from Weebly, Inc., the California company that hosted the blog. The blogger
moved to quash the subpoena in Michigan, but Cooley sought a separate subpoena from a California court. Due to a miscommunication, Weebly administrators disclosed the blogger’s identity, but the trial judge required Cooley to sequester the identifying information.
The motion to quash the subpoena in Michigan provoked a court hearing. At that hearing, an amicus curiae brief urged adoption of the Dendrite test. The court denied Doe’s motion to quash, saying that it was applying the Dendrite test but, in fact, not requiring Cooley to present any evidence that Doe had made false statements.
On appeal, the blogger successfully argued that the trial judge misapplied the Dendrite test. The Court of Appeals granted permission to appeal, and reversed on the narrow grounds that Michigan law allows a protective order to be granted, protecting the identity of an anonymous defendant while the defendant seeks to have the lawsuit dismissed, either on the face of the complaint or for lack of evidence.
One appellate judge dissented in part, writing that adopting the Dendrite test in Michigan would be a better approach to balancing the First Amendment rights of an anonymous critic with a plaintiff’s right to pursue allegations of defamation. As this case evolves, it may be argued that just as the Warren Hospital case has limited the application of Dendrite, a Michigan court may find that it should fully adopt the Dendrite test so long as it is modified according to Warren Hospital.
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Doctors Recommended She Pull The Plug On Her Husband. She Refused, And Then He Woke Up
Wed, Apr 08, 2015 @ 12:09 PM
www.sunnyskyz.com
Matt and Danielle Davis had been married only seven months when a devastating motorcycle accident left Matt on life support and in a coma.
Given only a 10% chance of waking up, Davis told WTOC that doctors advised her to pull the plug on her husband. She recalled hearing them say, "That's what they'd want their family to do."
Danielle refused to give up on him. "We didn't really have a chance to start our life together, I wasn't going to give up."
Matt spent three months in the coma, and moved from the hospital to their home where Danielle cared for him 24/7.
Then one day, against all odds, Matt said, "I'm trying."
He eventually came out of his coma, but he didn't remember anything that had happened in the last three years. He retained no memory of his father's death, or even meeting and marrying his wife.
But in the time that has passed since the accident, Matt has made amazing progress. Physical therapy has helped him learn to walk again.
They play scrabble and enjoy going to yoga classes together, and he's recently started driving a stick shift car for fun because he loves cars.
"One conversation with Matt will change your life," Danielle shared. "He has a servant's heart and a love for people. He never complains or feels anger about his circumstance. He just wants to make a difference and give hope."
The couple is currently trying to raise funds for Matt to continue his therapy.
Topics: recovery, coma, physical therapy, home care, health, healthcare, doctors, hospital, treatment, life support
Dog Escapes From Home, Sneaks Into Hospital 20 Blocks Away To Comfort Sick Owner
Mon, Feb 16, 2015 @ 11:04 AM
By Ryan Grenoble
"Dogged determination" has a mascot, and it's a miniature schnauzer named "Sissy."
On Sunday, the dog escaped from her yard in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, walked 15 to 20 blocks to the hospital, and then sneaked inside to find her human, Nancy Franck, who has been there recovering from cancer surgery for the last several weeks.
Security camera footage from the hospital shows Sissy enter the building via two sets of motion-activated doors. Once inside, the dog looks around, then puts her nose to the ground and heads straight down the hall, appearing to sniff out a trail.
"We looked up and there was this dog just that was just running across the lobby,” Mercy Medical Center security officer Samantha Conrad told KCRG. Conrad said they looked at her tags and called Sissy's home. Nancy's husband, Dale, answered and was relieved to conclude an hours-long search for the dog.
Sadly, Sissy couldn't stay in the hospital, but she was permitted to briefly visit with Nancy before Dale took her back home.
Nancy told KWWL it was "a big boost" to spend time with the devoted dog. "It helped a lot," she said, "just to see her and talk to her."
The Francks say they've never taken Sissy to the hospital, reports note, so they aren't sure how she knew to navigate there. Since Nancy works in a building near the hospital, they speculated the dog had been in the car when Nancy was dropped off one day, and somehow found her way back.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
Topics: surgery, recovery, dog, cancer, hospital, patient, owner
Coma Patients Show Improved Recovery From Hearing Family Voices
Mon, Jan 26, 2015 @ 12:12 PM
By David McNamee
It has been a dramatic plot device within countless movies and soap operas, but now a new study from Northwestern Medicine and Hines VA Hospital, both in Illinois, has attempted to answer the question: can the voices of family members and loved ones really wake coma patients from unconsciousness?
A coma is defined as an unconscious condition in which the patient is unable to open their eyes. When a patient begins to recover from a coma, they progress first to a minimally conscious or "vegetative state," though these states can last anywhere from a few weeks to several years.
Lead author Theresa Pape was inspired to conduct the new study - the results of which are published in the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair - while working as a speech therapist for coma patients with traumatic brain injuries. Pape observed that patients appeared to respond better to family members than to strangers.
From this, Pape began to wonder if patients' ability to recover might be increased if therapists were able to stimulate and exercise people's brains while they were unconscious.
As part of the randomized, placebo-controlled study, 15 patients with traumatic closed head injuries who were in a minimally conscious state were enrolled to Familiar Auditory Sensory Training (FAST). The 12 men and three women had an average age of 35 and had been in a vegetative state for an average of 70 days before the FAST treatment began.
At the start of the study, Pape and her colleagues used bells and whistles to test how responsive the patients were to sensory information. They also assessed whether the patients were able to follow directions to open their eyes or if they could visually track someone walking across the room.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was also used to get a baseline impression of how blood oxygen levels in the patients' brains changed while listening to both familiar and unfamiliar voices tell different stories.
The therapists then asked the patients' families to look at photo albums to identify and piece together at least eight important stories concerning events that the patient and their family took part in together.
"It could be a family wedding or a special road trip together, such as going to visit colleges," Pape explains. "It had to be something they'd remember, and we needed to bring the stories to life with sensations, temperature and movement. Families would describe the air rushing past the patient as he rode in the Corvette with the top down or the cold air on his face as he skied down a mountain slope."
Patients were more responsive to unfamiliar voices after 6 weeks of therapy
The stories were rehearsed and recorded by the families and then played to the coma patients for 6 weeks. Following this listening period, the MRI tests were repeated, with blood oxygen levels being taken while the patients listened to their stories being told by familiar and unfamiliar voices.
The MRI recorded a change in oxygen levels when the unfamiliar voice was telling the story, but there was no change from baseline levels for the familiar voice.
Pape says that these findings demonstrate a greater ability to process and understand speech among the patients, as they are more responsive to the unfamiliar voice telling the story: "At baseline they didn't pay attention to that non-familiar voice. But now they are processing what that person is saying.''
At this point in the treatment, the researchers also found that the patients were less responsive to the sound of a small bell ringing than they had been at the start of the study. The team believes that this indicates the patients were now better able to discriminate between different types of audio information and decide what is most important to listen to.
"Mom's voice telling them familiar stories over and over helped their brains pay attention to important information rather than the bell," Pape says. "They were able to filter out what was relevant and what wasn't."
The first 2 weeks were found to be the most important period for treatment and demonstrated the biggest gains. The remaining 4 weeks of treatment saw smaller, more incremental gains.
"This gives families hope and something they can control," Pape says of the treatment, recommending that families work with a therapist to help construct stories that augment the other therapies the patient may be undergoing.
Now, the team is analyzing the study data to investigate whether the FAST treatment strengthened axons - the fibers that make up the brain's "wiring" and transmit signals between neurons.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
Topics: recovery, coma, voices, family, nurse, research, medical, hospital, patient, treatment, physicians
FDA clears robotic legs for some paralyzed people
Wed, Jul 02, 2014 @ 12:30 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators have approved a first-of-a-kind set of robotic leg braces that can help some disabled people walk again.
The ReWalk system functions like an exoskeleton for people paralyzed from the waist down, allowing them to stand and walk with assistance from a caretaker.
The device consists of leg braces with motion sensors and motorized joints that respond to subtle changes in upper-body movement and shifts in balance. A harness around the patient's waist and shoulders keeps the suit in place, and a backpack holds the computer and rechargeable battery. Crutches are used for stability.
ReWalk is intended for people who are disabled due to certain spinal cord injuries.
The device was developed by the founder of Israel-based Argo Medical Technologies, who was paralyzed in a 1997 car crash.
Source: news.msn.com
Topics: recovery, FDA, robotic, medical
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Companies Prioritizing the Employee Experience During a Pandemic
Posted by Maritz Motivation Team
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the United States and across the globe, retail stores are closing, restaurants are either closing or limiting operations to take-out or curbside pick-up, and many companies are shifting to a remote workplace.
Large corporations are making the news for the measures they are or aren’t taking to take care of their employees as this virus continues to spread.
At Maritz Motivation, we believe an organization’s employees are their greatest resource. They provide the innovation, expertise and value behind their business. As companies are adapting their current practices to ensure the safety of their employees and prioritizing their well-being, the employee experience is more important than ever. Today, we’ve rounded up 5 examples of companies who are prioritizing the employee experience as we navigate this new world of work to ensure the safety of the populations who may be more vulnerable to the virus.
Shopify, a leading e-commerce site, has been keeping a close eye on COVID-19 and making regional specific decisions since January. As the virus spread and began to impact their employees and communications, they decided to switch to a fully remote workforce to do their part in slowing the spread of the virus. In addition to the decision to close offices to protect employees, they offered a $1,000 stipend to all employees so they could purchase equipment to make their transition to remote work easier.
2. Lululemon athletica
Lululemon, a global athleisure brand, announced closure of all of their stores in North America and Europe from March 16th to March 27th, while allowing consumers to continue to shop on lululemon.com. That date has now passed, and stores around the United States remain closed. lululemon pays the store employees hourly – many who would go without pay with the closure of their retail locations. However, lululemon announced their employees would continue to receive pay for all hours they have been scheduled to work and have access to Global Pay Relief plans. During these uncertain times, employees shouldn’t have to worry about where their next paycheck comes from, and thanks to the steps lululemon is taking, they won’t have to.
Starbucks announced that they are closing all US company operated cafes and only operating drive-thru and delivery services in response to the current pandemic. They will continue to operate some cafes located in or around hospital and health care centers as part of their efforts to serve first responders and health care workers who are helping to fight the virus. Starbucks workers who chose to stay home will be paid for 30 days, which includes employees who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or exposed to the virus, or those who need to take extra precautions. Starbucks is helping their employees alleviate the stressful decision of coming to work when they may feel it’s not safe to do so.
In addition to these measures, Starbucks plans to offer free therapy to all employees starting April 6th. This will grant them access to self-care apps through Lyra Health, which is a software company that connects people with mental health services through their employer. This initiative was underway before the pandemic, but will be a great resource for workers and the anxieties they’re facing during these uncertain times.
4. CVS
To meet the growing demand for health care, prescriptions and supplies during the coronavirus pandemic, CVS has announced plans to accelerate efforts to hire 50,000 employees across the country. These will be full-time, part-time and temporary positions that include store associates, prescription delivery drivers, distribution center employees and customer service professionals.
To fill positions while practicing safe social-distancing measures, they will use a technology-driven hiring process that includes virtual job fairs and interviews. They expect many of the positions to be filled by existing CVS Health clients who’ve had to furlough hospitality employees, like Hilton and Marriott. In addition to filling positions by supporting their clients and their employees, they are also taking additional measures to support their own.
CVS plans to award bonuses to employees who are required to be at facilities to assist patients and customers, as well as make paid sick leave more available to part-time workers.
Whether it’s a company providing key services and support to the general population during the pandemic or a technology company trying its best to conduct business as usual, there is one constant: the employee experience is more important than ever.
In order for employees to feel supported and most importantly, safe, companies must adopt new measures or ways to prioritize the employee experience in these uncertain times. For more resources on prioritizing the employee experience, click here. Do you have any examples of companies doing an exceptional job prioritizing their employees? Tweet them at us @MaritzMotivates.
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keyboard_arrow_right TODAY at 70: Part 1
TODAY at 70: Part 1
It was 70 years ago, on January 14th, 1952 when TODAY broadcast its first show. Join Savannah Guthrie along with co-anchor Hoda Kotb and co-hosts Craig Melvin, Al Roker, and Carson Daly as they commemorate this milestone achievement. In this two-part series, the current co-hosts of TODAY reflect on what makes TODAY an American Institution that’s been delivering the news for the past 70 years giving its audience a front-row seat to history. It’s all about the stories they’ve covered, the people they’ve met along the way, and the experiences only TODAY can offer. In part one – Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin, Al Roker, and Carson Daly share why they think TODAY is one of the longest-running shows in broadcasting. What’s the secret sauce that has kept TODAY must-see TV in the morning? Plus, what’s it like to cover the news under the iconic TODAY banner?
The current cast shares their journey to TODAY and what it’s like to follow in the steps of their mentors like Barbara Walters, Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric, and […]
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May 3, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Ronmentum, whether you want it or not
This was a Goodyear blimp, but the pilot is a Ron Paul supporter so he repainted it after takeoff. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I truly do not understand Ron Paul’s delegate-based approach: his team seems to be making sure that his supporters are elected as delegates, regardless of whether or not he won the popular vote. He’s not going to win the presidential nomination (there’s no way of that happening), but he will get attention and a voice in the platform that by far exceeds the ratio of actual popular votes he has received. His voice will be amplified, not because he represents the voice of a large number of people, but because he represents a small number of people who happen to know how to game the system.
Let me take that back a little: I *understand* what he’s doing. He’s taking advantage of the fact that delegates are appointed separately from the caucus votes, as in Iowa where “delegates elect delegates who elect delegates”. It’s a grueling process, and not everyone has the stamina for it. What he’s doing is perfectly legal. Yet in Iowa, where he came in third, it seems that 20 out of the state’s 28 potential delegates will be Paul supporters. For all intents and purposes, Ron Paul won Iowa.
What I don’t understand is: why would anyone support as candidate for President someone who is so dismissive of the will of the voters? Shouldn’t the fact that a large majority of people in Iowa did NOT vote for him mean that he should get no more than 1/5 of total delegates, equivalent to the number of people who DID vote for him? Isn’t this behind-the-scenes maneuvering a very dishonest way of saying “we don’t care who the people of the state wanted to elect, we want Ron Paul instead”?
It’s not illegal, and the Ron Paul campaign isn’t hiding what they are doing. And you can’t just say that these are all just Santorum/Gingrich supporters who have switched to vote against Romney now that their favorite candidate has dropped out: the Ron Paul campaign has been admitting to this approach since long before the other candidates abandoned ship. But it seems insane to me that anyone would look at this approach, where the “one-person, one-vote” principle is subverted by ethically dodgy (albeit, as I said, perfectly legal) maneuvers, with the end result that at the end of the day it quite literally DOES NOT MATTER who the people of states like Iowa and Massachusetts and Minnesota voted for, and think: “yes, that’s the kind of respect for the will of the voters that I want to see elected into office.”
It’s not behavior I find surprising from Ron Paul. It seems to line up well with his general “I support States’ rights if I oppose the current Federal law, but I support Federal law if I agree with it” approach. I do “understand” what he’s doing. But I find it surprising that people support it.
Paul Campaign Gameplan: Hijack GOP Convention (foxnews.com)
Ron Paul’s Nevada campaign rebuffs Republican National Committee warning (fromthetrenchesworldreport.com)
Ron Paul’s Delegates Deluge: Minnesota, Washington State, Louisiana (tatoott1009.com)
Ron Paul Wins Louisiana and Massachusetts Caucuses (lewrockwell.com)
Ron Paul captures 16 delegate spots out of 27 in Mitt Romney’s home state (headlineclicker.com)
Washington Post: Ron Paul’s stealth state convention takeover (aksyrin.wordpress.com)
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Do You Feel Lucky to Be at DePaul?
November 29, 2021 November 23, 2021 bcicirel Mission Monday gratitude, international students, privilege
“No words can express my gratitude for the many benefits and favors we constantly receive…”
– Saint Vincent de Paul[1]
Recently, I enjoyed gathering with a group of newly arrived DePaul international students. Over lunch at the Student Center in Lincoln Park, we chatted about various things like their impressions of American food, the changeable weather in Chicago, and the best ways to get to the Loop Campus. I asked them what they planned to study, and they asked me about my role at the university. At a certain point in the conversation, I paused and then asked each of them what I hoped was not too personal a question: how do you feel about being at DePaul University? It seemed to me they took a moment before responding, but when they did, all gave the exact same answer. They felt lucky.
I don’t know what I expected them to answer, but I did not expect that. I then asked why they felt lucky, and a range of responses came pouring out: their residence hall rooms are beautiful; the people are so nice; all of their friends from home would like to study in the United States; and, they will have so many opportunities as a result of being here. As they shared their reasons, I could not help joining in their spirit and feeling excited for them.
That conversation has stayed with me. Especially the part about feeling lucky. Since that chat, I turned the tables and asked myself the very question I asked the students. How do I feel about being at DePaul? Do I, too, feel lucky to be here? Whatever responses I come up with usually resemble something like a math equation with variables and constants, factors and expressions, positives, and negatives. Yet the result is always the same. Yes, I do. I do feel lucky to be here.
I am conscious I have privileges others do not have. I am aware DePaul’s path has not been entirely smooth and more bumps surely lie ahead. I know that neither I, nor this place, are perfect.[2] I am also mindful that work must be done to build bridges between faculty, staff, students, and other stakeholders so that DePaul will have a more just and sustainable future. But, overall, when I consider my job, the people who make up our community, and the mission and purpose of DePaul, I feel grateful. And, like those students, I feel something I might even call “lucky,” or hopeful, or maybe it’s simply faith in the future.
How do you feel about being at DePaul? What are things that make you feel grateful to be here? How might you be able to share these with others?
Reflection by: Tom Judge, Assistant Director and Chaplain, Faculty and Staff Engagement, Division of Mission and Ministry
[1] Letter 1787, “To Étienne Blatiron, Superior, in Genoa,” 23 October 1654, CCD, 5:205. Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/vincentian_ebooks/30/.
[2] As Vincent de Paul said, “Wherever we go, we always take ourselves and our imperfections with us.”Letter 2123, “To Brother Pierre Leclerc, in Agen,” 1656, CCD, 6:69. Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/vincentian_ebooks/31/.
One Habit with Many Benefits
November 16, 2020 November 11, 2020 bcicirel Mission Monday accomplishment, gratitude, st vincent, vincent de paul, vincentian history
Our patron saint, Vincent de Paul, often spoke of cultivating virtues. He believed virtues develop in us through regular and habitual actions. Vincent’s understanding corresponds to an often-quoted piece of popular wisdom that it is easier to walk your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of walking. Vincent clearly had a bias for action. It is not what you think but what you do that is ultimately the most meaningful and consequential.
In light of this, consider the virtue of gratitude. The regular practice of gratitude has been shown to improve physical health, empathy, self-esteem, sleep, psychological health, mental strength, and help you build social connections.1 Better yet, even if you are a person who struggles to feel or express gratitude easily and freely, it is a habit that can be learned and cultivated with practice at any age.
Cultivating gratitude requires the humility to acknowledge that many of the gifts and opportunities in our lives have come to us through others: those who currently grace our lives, as well those who came before us. It may be true that we have worked extremely hard and overcome a lot to get where we are. We can certainly feel proud of our accomplishments. Yet, such pride is not gratitude. We discover and develop gratitude when we humbly recognize the blessings in our lives that make clear our dependence or interdependence on others, or on a divine source beyond us all. Perhaps such gratitude is found when experiencing the natural beauty of the earth, the wonder of the sun and the stars, the generosity of others, or the beautiful uniqueness of a newborn child. For such gifts, we stand in awe and gratitude.
However, this recognition is only part of the process. Taking time to savor our experience of gratitude lights up the brain and warms the heart with positive physical and psychological effects. The full benefit only comes when we communicate our gratitude to those who made these gifts possible. Whether doing so verbally, in writing, or in physical acts of expressing thanks to others, the full power and positive impact of gratitude is realized.
From his religious worldview, Vincent de Paul understood that God is the giver of all gifts, which flow abundantly from a generous love and goodness, and a self-gift made known in the person of Jesus. Vincent expressed the desire “that God may give us the spirit of profound gratitude for so many benefits bestowed on us.…”2
As we approach this Thanksgiving season, may we be filled with gratitude for the gifts we have received, so that we, too, might become a gift for others.
Take a moment to ponder or hold in your heart one person or one recent experience for whom or for which you are especially grateful today. How does it feel to remember this gift? Is there anything about what you have received that can be passed on and shared with someone else? If so, do it today!
1) A summary of research on various positive impacts of the practice of gratitude can be found here: 7 Scientifically Proven Benefits of Gratitude
2) Letter 1705, To Charles Ozenne, Superior, In Warsaw, 13 February 1654, CCD, 5:81.
Reflection by: Mark Laboe, Associate VP, Division of Mission and Ministry
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Untitled (Leaner)
Untitled (Leaner), 1970, Peter Alexander. Polyester resin. 104 ½ x 5 ½ x 3 in. Collection of the artist. © Peter Alexander
On View at the Getty Center: Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970
Like many of his contemporaries, Peter Alexander experimented with innovative techniques for casting plastic resins, using materials that were newly available on the market in the second half of the 1960s. This slender vertical sculpture is made of polyester resin and, like many that Alexander made during the late 1960s and early 1970s, it plays with the prismatic effects produced by light reflecting off and passing through translucent resins. The work leans against the wall and has a triangular cross-section. The two facets that are directed towards the viewer are highly polished, while the rear facet retains the roughly textured finish produced by the casting process. As light passes through the piece, a halo of golden light and pattern is thrown onto the wall behind and around the piece, dematerializing both the sculpture and its surroundings.
Learn more about Peter Alexander
Light & Space
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Cloud Box, 1966, Peter Alexander. Cast polyester resin. 9 5/8 x 9 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. Collection of Janis Horn and Leonard Feldman, Los Angeles. © Peter Alexander. Photo: Brian Forrest
Video: Peter Alexander speaks about his work, May 2010
An exhibition at Billy Al Bengston’s Artist Studio, with works by Ed Ruscha, Peter Alexander, and John McCracken, 1970. Image courtesy of Billy Al Bengston
Peter Alexander in 1966. Image courtesy of and © Billy Al Bengston
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Long-Term Unemployment Benefits Expire; Long-Term Unemployment Falls
Randall Holcombe • Wednesday September 10, 2014 8:46 AM PDT
The unemployment rate has fallen from 6.7% at the end of 2013 to 6.1% in August 2014. That decline is primarily the result of the expiration of long-term unemployment benefits.
Unemployment compensation usually expires at the end of 26 weeks of unemployment, but during the last recession Congress extended that period, and many states paid benefits for well over a year. If we pay people to be unemployed, we should expect more unemployment, and that’s what we got. The long-term unemployment rate skyrocketed during the recession because we paid people to be unemployed longer.
In August 2013, when people were eligible for extended unemployment benefits, people unemployed for 27 weeks or more made up 38% of total unemployment. In August 2014, after extended unemployment benefits had been eliminated, only 31.2% of the unemployed had been unemployed that long.
Looking at this table from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we see that the number of people unemployed for less than five weeks has actually risen from August 2013 to August 2014, while the number unemployed 27 weeks or more has declined by more than 30%.
The decline in the unemployment rate isn’t due to fewer people who are newly-unemployed, it is due to the shorter duration of unemployment for those who are unemployed. And people have shorter durations of unemployment now because we are no longer paying them to be unemployed for longer periods.
Many government policies have prolonged the recovery from the 2008 recession, and one was the extension of unemployment benefits. In hindsight, it is easy to look at the data and see that once long-term unemployment benefits were eliminated, long-term unemployment fell, and because of the shorter duration of average unemployment, the unemployment rate has fallen.
Randall G. Holcombe is Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. His Independent books include Housing America: Building Out of a Crisis (edited with Benjamin Powell); and Writing Off Ideas: Taxation, Foundations, and Philanthropy in America .
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2010-2011 Undergraduate Calendar
Admissions I. Policy Statement II. Accessibility Admissions Policy III. Application Deadline Fall Entry Winter/Spring Entry IV. Application Procedures: Degree - Undergraduate Studies V. Application Procedures: Non-Degree- Undergraduate Studies VI. Application Procedures: Other Programs VII. Admission to Undergraduate Degree Studies VIII. Other Categories for Admission to Undergraduate Degree Studies IX. Transfer to Undergraduate Degree Studies X. Proof of Proficiency in English XI. International Student Immigration Requirements XII. Applicant Responsibilities
For inquiries: Telephone 905 688 5550, x4068 Fax: 905-988-5488 Email: admissns@brocku.ca brocku.ca/registrar All prospective students are encouraged to apply and will be considered on the basis of evidence of probable success in their chosen program. Enrolment has been limited in order that our students may continue to benefit from the University's traditions of personal contact and individual attention. Applicants must be formally admitted to the University before they can register in degree credit courses.
I. Policy Statement
Brock has had and will continue to have, a racially non-discriminatory policy and therefore does not discriminate against applicants and students on the basis of race, colour or national or ethnic origin. Such a non-discriminatory policy applies to staff and extends to non-discrimination on grounds of creed or sex. It is the policy of Brock University that all students must therefore sign a declaration on their application for admission and on their confirmation of registration attesting to their citizenship. Each student should be aware that documentation of citizenship may be required and that a penalty for a false statement is deregistration. In addition, any changes in status, e.g., from visa student to permanent resident or Canadian citizen, requires proof of the new status with appropriate document(s).
II. Accessibility Admissions Policy
In order to give special consideration to applicants from specified groups, a number of spaces are provided for persons in the categories that follow. Eligible persons must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents and may apply to the first year of an undergraduate program from a secondary school or community college or to the one-year teacher education program. A first year undergraduate applicant who has achieved the minimum acceptable average for admission to the University, but who does not have the required average for his/her chosen program, may apply for consideration as a special student under the categories shown below. A teacher education applicant, who has met the minimum admissions requirements, including the completion of a bachelor's degree acceptable to Brock University, but who does not meet the higher admission standard established for the year of application, may apply for consideration under one or more of the following categories shown below. This policy applies if:
the applicant is of Aboriginal ancestry
the applicant is a member of a visible minority
the applicant is challenged by a disability
Applications are reviewed on an individual basis and interviews may be required. The Senate Student Affairs Committee may restrict the number of courses for which an applicant may register and may require that a certain average be required. Once this admission requirement has been satisfied, the student may register as a full-time student. Students admitted under this policy and who have met initial admission requirements will then be required to meet the same standards for progression and graduation as other students. Students with specific questions about this policy are encouraged to contact the Office of the Registrar, Admissions.
III. Application Deadline
Fall Entry
Prospective applicants should refer to brocku.ca/registrar/admissions for important application deadline dates, since some programs have early deadlines.
Application for admission should be made as early as possible. Application forms must be received by June 1 for most full-time programs and August 1 for part-time studies to ensure consideration for September registration. International applicants intending to study on a Study Permit should apply no later than April 1. Students applying after this date, who are subsequently admitted, may be required to register late and pay the late registration fee.
Concurrent Education applicants must submit a Profile Questionnaire as part of the application package. Submission dates are posted at; brocku.ca/registrar/admissions/ under 'Important Application Deadlines', as well as on the Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC) application.
Winter/Spring Entry
A student may begin first-year studies on a part-time basis in the Winter Term beginning in January. However, the number and types of courses available are limited. Applications for part-time study can be accessed at brocku.ca/registrar/forms/
IV. Application Procedures: Degree - Undergraduate Studies
For additional details on how to apply, refer to brocku.ca/registrar/admissions A. Ontario Secondary School Applicants OUAC 101 application forms are available on-line at ouac.on.ca. or at secondary school guidance offices. The completed form and interim grades are to be sent to the Ontario Universities' Application Centre. Applicants who wish to be considered on final marks should forward a copy of their final grades directly to Brock University. For further details refer to brocku.ca/registrar/admissions/ B. All Other Full-time Applicants OUAC 105 application forms are available on-line at ouac.on.ca for previous secondary school matriculants, homeschooled, university or college transfer, out-of-province and international students. For further details refer to brocku.ca/registrar/admissions/ C. Second or Subsequent Undergraduate Degree Applicants Non-Brock applicants use the OUAC 105 form for full-time admission. For Part-time studies it can be accessed at brocku.ca/registrar/forms. Brock graduates requesting admission to a subsequent undergraduate degree program must complete an internal application form available at brocku.ca/registrar/forms/ D. Part-time Degree, Mature and Certificate Applicants Part-time degree applicants, mature applicants, as well as those seeking admission to certificate programs should refer to brocku.ca/registrar/admissions/ for application information. E. Readmission of Former Brock Student Applicants Former Brock students seeking readmission after having attended another postsecondary institution in the interim must complete the Brock Application for Readmission form available at brocku.ca/registrar/forms/, and forward official transcripts of all postsecondary institutions attended for readmission consideration and possible transfer of credit. F. Senior Citizen Applicants Senior citizens (60 years of age or more) are encouraged to apply for admission to full-time or part-time studies as either credit or auditing students.
V. Application Procedures: Non-Degree- Undergraduate Studies
A. Post-Degree Applicants Post-degree students are defined as those applicants with degrees who are taking courses to qualify for further study or for personal interest. Students will normally be limited to part-time studies except where departmental/centre approval has been received to do qualifying work for admission to a Masters or Honours program at Brock. Applicants should apply using a part-time application available at brocku.ca/registrar/forms/ B. Letter of Permission Applicants Those authorized by their home universities to take courses at Brock. Applicants should apply using a part-time application available at brocku.ca/registrar/forms/ C. Special Admission Applicants A special student is one whose course load has been restricted because of the student's academic standing. Such students would normally be permitted to register in a maximum of two credits per academic session.
VI. Application Procedures: Other Programs
A. Faculty of Education Applicants apply using the OUAC TEAS205 application (ouac.on.ca). For information on admission requirements and application procedures for the various programs, refer to brocku.ca/registrar/admissions/. B. Graduate Studies For information on the admission requirements for graduate degree programs, see the Graduate Studies Calendar available at https://brocku.ca/registrar/calendars/ An undergraduate degree acceptable to Brock, normally an honours degree in the appropriate field, is the minimum requirement.
VII. Admission to Undergraduate Degree Studies
A. Ontario Grade 12 U/M Ontario secondary school students must present the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD). An overall average of 70 percent on six Grade 12 U or M courses is the minimum required for consideration, but a higher average will be required for most programs since the number of qualified applicants normally exceed the spaces available. Secondary school students are encouraged to achieve as much breadth of preparation as possible in the course of their studies leading to the OSSD, while also meeting the stated admission requirements of the University program to which they intend to apply. Applicants admitted to a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science degree program will be offered entry into an Honours program, where applicable. B. Canadian Provinces Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut High-school diploma with five academic courses including program-specific prerequisite courses numbered 30 or 31. British Columbia, Yukon High-school diploma with four approved examinable Grade 12 courses. Prerequisites must be included among the approved examinable courses. Manitoba High-school diploma with five academic courses that cover three different subject areas, including program-specific prerequisites at the Senior 4 Level. New Brunswick High-school diploma with six academic courses, including program-specific prerequisites at the Grade 12 (120, 121 or 122) level. Newfoundland/Labrador High-school diploma with eleven credits at the 3000 level including program-specific prerequisites. Nova Scotia High-school diploma with five academic university preparatory courses, including program-specific prerequisites at the Grade 12 level. Prince Edward Island High-school diploma with five academic courses, including program-specific prerequisites at the Grade 12 (621 or 611) level. Quebec Grade 12 Certificate of Graduation with six academic (university-preparation level) courses, including program-specific prerequisites with high standing; OR One year of CEGEP with a minimum of 12 academic courses. Those applicants with completion of two or three years of CEGEP with high standing may be considered for transfer credit to a maximum of five year-one credits. Saskatchewan High-school diploma with five academic courses, including program-specific prerequisites at the Grade 12 (30) level. C. Caribbean Territories Applicants will be considered for admission with completion of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) as well as Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) results. Applicants with passes in five subjects at the CSEC-Level (minimum grade 3), of which at least two subjects are completed to the CAPE Advanced Unit 2-Level (minimum grade 4) will be considered. Alternatively, one CSEC-Level subject (minimum grade 3) and four Unit 1-Level subjects (minimum grade 4) will be considered as long as the Unit 1-Level subjects do not duplicate the subject matter at the CSEC-Level. Prerequisite subjects required for entry to a specific degree program must be completed to Unit 1-Level with grades of no less than 4. In consultation with the appropriate academic department, the Office of the Registrar will consider transfer credit for those Unit 2-Level courses passed with a grade of '3' or better to a maximum of 3.0 credits. D. East and West Africa and Hong Kong The General Certificate of Education with passes in five subjects, of which at least two must be from distinct areas at the Advanced Level, or passes in four subjects, of which at least three must be from distinct areas at the Advanced Level. In consultation with the appropriate academic department, the Office of the Registrar will consider transfer credit for those Advanced Level courses passed with a grade of 'C' or better to a maximum of 3 credits. For those applicants completing the British curriculum, refer to 'United Kingdom' requirements. E. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh Applicants are considered for admission on the basis of grade 12 secondary school examination results with Division 1 or "A" standing. F. United Kingdom Applicants will be considered for admission with the completion of 5 GCE/GCSE/IGCSE subjects with at least 2 at A-Level (GCSE grades at C or above). One GCSE/IGCSE/O-Level subject (grade C or above) and 4 AS-Level subjects will be considered provided the AS-levels do not duplicate subject matter at the GCSE/IGCSE or O-Level. In consultation with the appropriate academic department, the Office of the Registrar will consider transfer credit for those A-Level courses passed with a grade of 'C' or better to a maximum of 3 credits. Transfer credit will not be considered for courses completed to AS-Level. Brock University will also consider applicants with VCE A-Level, VCE A-Level Double Award and BTEC Certificate/Diploma qualifications. G. United States Grade 12 diploma with high grades in academic subjects (usually a minimum B average, although higher grades are required for some limited enrolment programs). Where the grading scale of the applicants' secondary school differs from the Ontario secondary school grading scale (pass = 50%) grades will be translated into equivalencies for admissibility and scholarship eligibility. In order to aid with the transition from secondary school to university, applicants are strongly encouraged to attempt to select courses with significant academic rigor in their final year of secondary school.
Brock University welcomes applications from students completing an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma program or Advanced Placement courses. The following are helpful in determining eligibility:
For borderline cases, SAT scores.
School profiles (if available).
Letters of recommendation from counselors or teachers.
H. Other Countries Applicants from areas other than those noted above will be evaluated on an individual basis.
VIII. Other Categories for Admission to Undergraduate Degree Studies
A. Advanced Placement (AP) Advanced Placement courses may be used to determine admissibility and also granting of transfer credit or exemption. Applicants who have completed Advanced Placement courses with a minimum examination grade of "4" may be eligible to receive university credit to a maximum of 2.0 Brock credits. An official AP transcript is required as part of the evaluation process. B. Homeschooling Category A Preference is given to home schooled applicants who, after the eleventh year of homeschooling, complete the final year of secondary studies in an Ontario Ministry of Education inspected school, and present six 4U or 4M Ontario Grade 12 advanced level credits, as well as evidence of 40 hours of community service. Canadian out-of-province applicants with equivalent preparation in the home province will be given equal consideration. Category B Home schooled applicants who do not fall into the above category will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Normally, admission is limited to Humanities General Studies, Social Sciences General Studies or Sciences General Studies. Upon successful completion of first-year studies at Brock University, applicants may apply to declare a specific major. Applicants should refer to brock.ca/registrar/admissions/ to access the Homeschooled Applicant Profile. C. International Baccalaureate Applicants who have successfully completed the IB Diploma with the appropriate prerequisite subjects will be considered for admission and may be awarded a maximum of 3.0 transfer credits for HL examinations completed at a minimum grade of 5. Applicants, who successfully complete an IB Certificate program with a minimum of six subjects including prerequisites, may also be considered for admission and transfer credit. D. Mature Those who are not eligible for admission in any other admissions category, who have been out of school for at least two years and who are at least 21 years old, may be considered for admission as mature applicants. Mature applicants selected for admission are normally limited to part-time study initially. They must achieve a minimum 60 percent overall average on their first 2.0 (full or equivalent) credits. Otherwise they will be placed on academic probation and be required to pass all and to achieve a 60 percent average on the courses taken, while proceeding on a part-time basis. In support of the application, students will be asked to submit official copies of all pertinent academic records. In addition, students may be asked to submit a letter outlining:
1. career ambitions;
2. work experiences;
3. why they may be successful at university;
4. An interview may also be required.
5. Mature student admission is only applicable to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
E. Second or Subsequent Undergraduate Degrees
Non-Brock applicants use the OUAC 105 form. Brock graduates requesting admission to a subsequent undergraduate degree program must complete an internal application form available at the Office of the Registrar at brocku.ca/registrar/forms/. A university graduate must have completed the requirements for a first degree and normally offer the equivalent of a minimum 65 percent overall average with a higher average being required where enrolments are limited. Students admitted to a 15 credit degree program will be granted advanced standing to a maximum of seven credits from the first degree. Students admitted to a 20 credit degree program will be granted advanced standing to a maximum of 10 credits from the first degree. Applicants should be familiar with second undergraduate degree requirements. For further information, see the "Academic Regulations" section of the calendar. F. Brock Students Who Were Required to Withdraw A request for readmission shall be addressed to the Director, Admissions for referral to the Senate Student Appeals Board. G. Concurrent Secondary School University Enrolment Students enrolled in less than a full-time load of Ontario Grade 12 U or M courses, may be permitted to register concurrently for one credit, subject to the following provisions. The student must be registered in a sufficient number of Grade 12 U or M courses to complete requirements for an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), which meets normal university requirements. They must have at least a 75 percent standing in the previous high school year in an advanced level program, be recommended by their school and be approved by the Brock department concerned. Credit will be granted upon successful completion of the course and fulfillment of Brock's admission requirements. Students registering for a course under the auspices of this admission category will have tuition fees for the course waived. Consideration under this regulation may also be given to students formally approved through the Brock Mentorship Program, Faculty of Mathematics and Science.
IX. Transfer to Undergraduate Degree Studies
A. Canadian Universities Applicants wishing to transfer to Brock from degree programs at other Canadian universities must be in good academic standing and normally offer the equivalent of a minimum 60 percent overall average. Admission is not guaranteed by attainment of the minimum requirements as some programs require higher averages. Applicants must also be eligible to re-register at their previous institution. Normally, transfer credit will be granted only for courses passed which are appropriate to the chosen program. Transfer averages at the previous university will be recorded on the transfer students' records to place those students on an equal basis with those who take their entire undergraduate program at Brock. The grades from other universities whose grading schemes differ from that of Brock University will be translated into equivalent Brock grades and admissibility and transfer credit assessed in these terms. Evaluation of all possible transfer credits available at the time of admission must be completed within one year of the date of admission to the University. B. Colleges Graduates of a three-year diploma program with a cumulative average of 70 percent, or an average of 70 percent in the last two semesters of a three-year diploma program, will be considered for admission, and may be awarded up to five credits. In some cases, where programs at the college and Brock are quite compatible, up to seven and a half credits may be awarded with the approval of the department. Applicants who have completed two years of a three-year diploma program or graduates of a two-year program with a cumulative average of 70 percent will be considered for admission and may be awarded up to three credits. In cases where the programs at the college and Brock are quite compatible, up to 5 credits may be awarded with the approval of the department. College applied degrees will be assessed on a case by case basis for admission and transferability. The awarding of transfer credit is based primarily upon:
1. the compatibility of the previous program with the Brock program;
2. course content;
3. grades achieved in courses.
4. Applicants, who have completed one year of a college program, may be considered for admission to first year with no transfer credits provided that an average of 75 percent has been achieved and the program is of an academic nature.
5. Grades from colleges will be translated into equivalent Brock University grades and admissibility and transfer credit assessed in these terms. Admission is not guaranteed by attainment of the minimum requirements as some programs require higher averages.
C. Bible Colleges Applicants who have completed a degree program at a bible college accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) will be considered for admission and may receive up to five transfer credits. D. CA, CGA, CMA Individuals with CA, CGA, CMA designations may be granted up to five transfer credits, provided a minimum grade of 70 percent is achieved.
X. Proof of Proficiency in English
A. Undergraduate Degree Undergraduate applicants whose first language is not English must provide evidence of proficiency in English as demonstrated through one of the following:
TOEFL IBT (Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language), TOEFL CBT (Computer-based Test of English as a Foreign Language), MELAB (Michigan English Assessment Battery), IELTS (International Language Testing System), ITELP (International Test of English Proficiency) or the PTE Academic (Pearson Test of English) score. Normally, only those with TOEFL IBT scores of 88 or greater, with a minimum of 21 on Speaking and 21 on Writing; TOEFL CBT scores of 237 or greater, with a minimum of 4.5 on the Essay Rating score; MELAB scores of 85 or greater, with no other part under 80; ITELP scores of 565 or greater with a minimum composition score of 240; IELTS scores of 6.5 or greater, with no band below 6.0; and a PTE overall score of 58 will be considered for admission.
Achievement of an Overall Band Score of 70, with 60 in writing, with no other band score under 60 on the Canadian Academic English Language Assessment (CAEL), or completion of the York English Language Test (YELT) with an overall category of 1 or 2;
Completion of the International Baccalaureate diploma where English was the language of instruction;
A minimum of three years of full-time study, in an English language school system (where the primary language of instruction and evaluation was English) with acceptable grades in English and other humanities/social science courses from their secondary school year;
Successful completion of Level 5 of the Brock Intensive English Language Program. Students from the Intensive English Language Program entering on the recommendation of the Director of ESL Services may be required to enroll in AESL 1P90 and 1P91 in year one along with a maximum of four other credits.
B. Teacher Education All applicants to the consecutive Bachelor of Education Teacher Education program whose first language is not English must provide evidence of proficiency in English. Schooling in an English language environment does not exempt applicants from this requirement. Proficiency may be as demonstrated through one of the following:
TOEFL IBT (Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language) with a minimum score of 100, including a minimum of 27 on Writing and 27 on Speaking;
TOEFL CBT (Computer-based Test of English as a Foreign Language) with a minimum score of 250, including a minimum of 5.5 on the Essay Rating score;
ITELP (International Test of English Language Proficiency) with a minimum score of 580, and a minimum composition score of 260;
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) with a minimum score of 7.0;
MELAB (Michigan English Language Assessment Battery) with a minimum score of 90, and a minimum composition score of 83.
PTE ACADEMIC (Pearson Test of English) with a minimum overall score of 68.
C. TESL Certificate All applicants to the post-graduate Teaching English as a Second Language Certificate (TESL) program whose first language is not English must provide evidence of proficiency in English as demonstrated through one of the following:
TOEFL CBT (Computer-based Test of English as a Foreign Language) with a minimum score of 250, including a minimum of 5.5 on the Essay Rating score, as well as a 60 on the TSE (Test of Spoken English);
ITELP (International Test of English Language Proficiency) with a minimum score of 580, with a minimum composition score of 260.
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) with a minimum overall band score of 7.0, with no less than 7 on any other band;
MELAB (Michigan English Language Assessment Battery) with a minimum overall score of 90, and a minimum score of 83 on composition.
XI. International Student Immigration Requirements
Students entering Canada from other countries are required to comply with Canadian immigration requirements. Student Study Permits are issued abroad by Canadian diplomatic, consular or immigration officers. Where there is no Canadian representative, prospective students may apply to representatives of the British government. An original letter of acceptance from Brock University must be presented at that time. Registration in co-operative programs is available only to students eligible for employment in Canada in their chosen field. A pamphlet outlining immigration requirements is available from Canadian immigration officers, Canadian embassies, consulates, high commissioners' offices, and British consular offices or directly from the Immigration Division, Citizenship and Immigration department, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. International Student Deposit International students granted an Offer of Admission are normally required to confirm acceptance with a monetary deposit. Notification of this requirement is included in the Offer of Admission.
XII. Applicant Responsibilities
Unless otherwise indicated, it is the responsibility of applicants to ensure that all pertinent academic documentation is forwarded directly to the Office of the Registrar from institutions previously attended, such as secondary schools, colleges and universities. Proof of name change (marriage certificate, notarized statement or other legal document) must be provided if academic documents show a name other than that under which application is made. Evidence of proficiency in English must be provided if English is the applicant's second language. Applicants withholding, misrepresenting or failing to provide information regarding previous university or college records are liable to have their admission revoked and registration cancelled.
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Giant Telescope Collapses
The dish of Arecibo Observatory’s radio telescope lies heavily damaged following the collapse of the instrument platform on Dec. 1, 2020.
Credit: © estadespr, Shutterstock
The year 2020 claimed yet another victim, with the destruction of one of the most impressive telescopes ever built—the radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory. Already damaged beyond repair, the remaining cables that held the telescope’s instrument platform snapped on December 1, sending the platform crashing through the dish below. It was a spectacular and disappointing end to a telescope that has done so much to further our understanding of the universe.
The radio telescope was the primary instrument at the observatory, located in Puerto Rico, 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of San Juan. A radio telescope collects and measures radio waves given off by objects in space. At 1,000 feet (305 meters) in diameter, the Arecibo radio telescope was the world’s most powerful when it opened in 1963. It remained the largest dish (bowl-shaped reflector) in the world until 2016, when the dish of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) was completed in Guizhou Province, China.
The Arecibo dish was built into a natural basin-shaped valley. The dish focused radio waves onto receivers mounted on the large instrument platform suspended above. The waves came from such distant objects as pulsars (rapidly spinning stars whose waves arrive on Earth as regular pulses). Arecibo astronomers discovered the first binary pulsar (a pulsar in orbit around a companion star) in 1974. In the early 1990′s, astronomers at the observatory discovered planets beyond the solar system and ice at the poles of Mercury. Until the middle of 2020, astronomers were using the radio telescope for a variety of astronomical observations, including monitoring and assessing the threat level of near-Earth asteroids.
The Arecibo Observatory radio telescope as it appeared before its collapse in 2020. The instrument platform (top center) crashed through the dish on December 1.
Credit: © Than Tibbetts, Shutterstock
The impressive appearance of the massive dish surrounded by the lush, forested hills of Puerto Rico’s interior seemed particularly to capture the public imagination. The radio telescope appeared in the sci-fi motion picture Contact (1997) and the James Bond film GoldenEye (1995), for example.
The final collapse of the telescope began in August 2020, when an auxiliary cable that held the instrument platform broke. The falling cable tore several large gashes in the dish. In November, before engineers had a chance to repair the dish or replace the cable, a main support cable broke. The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) quickly determined that the telescope could no longer be saved without putting lives at risk. The NSF was considering plans to decommission the telescope—taking it permanently out of service—when the collapse occurred.
The future of the Arecibo Observatory appears doubtful. The U.S. Congress could direct funds to replace the telescope, but it may be more likely that the facility will be closed permanently.
In 1975, scientists engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence used the dish from the Arecibo telescope to beam a powerful signal into space. This signal was designed by astronomer Frank Drake with the help of famous science popularizer Carl Sagan to give any intelligent being who discovers it information about Earth and humans. Encoded within the message was an image of the dish itself. Although it is unlikely that any alien civilizations will receive the message, it serves a lasting monument to the telescope’s legacy.
Tags: arecibo observatory, astronomy, collapse, puerto rico, radio telescope
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World of Disasters
Earth has been a particularly dangerous place in recent weeks. Airplane crashes, military clashes, terror attacks, and political unrest have taken a toll on human life and happiness lately, but it is a series of natural disasters that has caused the most trouble. A typhoon ravaged the Philippines, deadly flash floods hit Indonesia, bushfires continued to rage in Australia, a measles epidemic continued to kill in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a series of earthquakes rattled Puerto Rico.
Firefighters confront a bushfire near the Blue Mountains town of Bilpin, New South Wales, on Dec. 19, 2019. Credit: © 1234rf/Shutterstock
On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Typhoon Phanfone (also called Ursula) struck the Philippines, producing high winds and flooding that killed 105 people in the Visayan Island provinces of Biliran, Capiz, Iloilo, and Leyte. Phanfone was a Category 2 storm (moderate strength) with sustained winds of more than 90 miles (150 kilometers) per hour. Storm surges and deadly flash floods hit communities just as families were gathering to celebrate the Christmas holiday. Thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed.
On New Year’s Day in Indonesia, abnormally heavy monsoon rains caused flash floods that killed 66 people and displaced hundreds of thousands of others in Jakarta, the capital. Some 14.5 inches (37 centimeters) of rain fell on New Year’s Eve, causing the Ciliwung and Cisadane rivers to overflow. Floodwaters submerged more than 150 neighborhoods and caused landslides in the Bogor and Depok districts on the outskirts of Jakarta. Flood water levels in some areas peaked at more than 13 feet (4 meters). Electric power was cut off, and closed schools and government buildings were converted into emergency shelters.
On January 7, the World Health Organization announced the 6,000th death from measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since an epidemic began there in 2019. More than 300,000 suspected measles cases have been reported in the DRC—a nation also troubled by recent terror attacks. The epidemic has continued and grown because of low vaccination coverage, malnutrition, weak public health systems, outbreaks of other epidemic-prone diseases (such as Ebola), and the difficulty of getting health care to people in remote areas.
In Puerto Rico, after several smaller earthquakes, a 6.4-magnitude temblor struck the southwestern part of the island on January 7. The earthquake, the strongest to hit Puerto Rico in more than 100 years, killed one person, toppled hundreds of structures, and forced a state of emergency. Many people lost their homes, the island briefly lost electric power, and schools and public offices were closed. In the 10 days before the 6.4-magnitude earthquake, the United States Geological Survey recorded hundreds of temblors in Puerto Rico—including 10 of 4-magnitude or greater.
A number of major bushfires have lately devastated southeastern Australia. Since September, the wild fires—mostly in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria—have burned more than 25.5 million acres (10.3 million hectares), an area the size of South Korea. The bushfires have destroyed more than 2,100 homes and killed 27 people and hundreds of millions of animals. On January 8, the Australian government ordered the mass slaughter of thousands of wild camels and horses that have invaded rural towns looking for water. Many people are without electric power and telecommunications in Australia’s southeast, and some were without drinking water and other supplies. Smoke has obscured the city skies of Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney. The bushfires followed a three-year drought that experts link to climate change.
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Baseball South–and Way South–of the Border
Next week, on February 14, Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers and catchers report to spring training camps in Arizona and Florida to begin the professional baseball season in the United States and Canada. South of the U.S. border, however, professional baseball’s premier winter event, the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe in Spanish), just wrapped up in Mexico. And this weekend, much further south in Australia, the Australian Baseball League (ABL) will end its season with the annual ABL Championship Series.
The Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) is an annual tournament between the professional baseball league champions of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Credit: © Serie del Caribe
Last night, on February 8, at the Estadio de Béisbol Charros de Jalisco outside Guadalajara, Mexico, Puerto Rico’s Criollos de Caguas defeated the Águilas Cibaeñas of the Dominican Republic 9-4 for a second-straight Caribbean Series title. The annual tournament is a fierce competition between the top pro baseball teams of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. A product of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation, the series was first played in 1949. Cuba’s Alazanes de Granma, Mexico’s Tomateros de Culiacán, and Venezuela’s Caribes de Anzoátegui—all champions of their national professional leagues—also participated in the 2018 Caribbean Series.
The location of the Caribbean Series is rotated annually among the participating nations and is played after the end of each country’s national tournament. In 2018, the series was supposed to be played in Venezuela. Political and social unrest prevented that from happening, however, and the tournament returned to Mexico for a second-straight year. For now, the 2019 Caribbean Series is scheduled to take place in the Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto, about 217 miles (350 kilometers) from Caracas, Venezuela’s capital.
Brisbane Bandits center fielder Tommy Milone slides safely into second base during game two of the 2017 Australian Baseball League Championship Series in Melbourne, Australia. Credit: © SMP Images
Tonight (February 9), tomorrow, and Sunday (if necessary) in Australia, the Brisbane Bandits and Canberra Cavalry will duke it out in the best-of-three 2018 ABL Championship Series, Australia’s version of the MLB World Series. Brisbane is looking for its third-straight Claxton Shield as ABL champions. Canberra last won an ABL title in 2013. Six professional baseball teams compete in the ABL, playing 40 games over a season that runs from November through January during the Australian summer. In addition to the Brisbane and Canberra ball clubs, the league includes the Adelaide Bite, Melbourne Aces, Perth Heat, and Sydney Blue Sox.
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Recovering Puerto Rico
On the heels of Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Katia, Hurricane Maria churned through the Caribbean Sea in mid-September 2017. The storm hit the islands of the Lesser Antilles hard, but Maria saved its worst for Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States.
A Puerto Rican coastal community lies in pieces on Oct. 2, 2017, nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Credit: Mani Albrecht, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Hurricane Irma skirted Puerto Rico on September 6, causing minor damage and an electric power outage. As Maria approached two weeks later, Puerto Ricans once again took cover—but Maria proved far worse than its sister hurricane. On September 20, Maria struck the island with torrential rains and winds well over 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour. In a matter of hours, record rainfalls drenched the island, with the east-central city of Caguas topping the gauges at nearly 40 inches (100 centimeters). Storm surges and flash flooding submerged large parts of the island, including neighborhoods of San Juan, the capital. Reservoirs and rivers overflowed and dams threatened to burst. Electric power went out—and stayed out—throughout Puerto Rico. Cellular phone service vanished, banks ceased functioning, roads became impassable, and television and radio stations went silent. “Everything collapsed,” said Héctor Pesquera, Puerto Rico’s commissioner of safety and public protection. “Everything collapsed simultaneously.”
Maria left Puerto Rico as quickly as it came, and as the skies cleared, the devastation was evident. Houses and trees were reduced to splinters; cars were scattered and half-buried in water and mud; farm crops lay shredded; and everywhere were broken windows, chunks of rooftops, and street signs twisted into knots.
Puerto Rican civilians pass cases of fresh water delivered by a Puerto Rico National Guard helicopter on Oct. 4, 2017. Credit: Spc. Agustin Montanez, The National Guard (licensed under CC BY 2.0)
Tens of thousands of people were stranded, and recovery efforts began immediately. The Puerto Rico National Guard rescued more than 2,000 people in the first 24 hours, and thousands of others found help in the days to come. But for many people, it was already too late. Drowned bodies began appearing, and as of October 18, the death toll on Puerto Rico stands at 48. Many people remain missing, however, and the number could still rise. Weeks after the storm, many areas still lack electric power and phone service, and there is still not enough food, water, medicine, and fuel to help people who have lost everything.
Lagging relief efforts from the mainland United States were heavily criticized, and there was a noted lack of urgency in the reaction of President Donald Trump, who downplayed the seriousness of the disaster. U.S. government aid for its Puerto Rican citizens did eventually kick into high gear, but only after several days of wrangling and indecisiveness on the part of administration officials.
Individual charities and international organizations have brought in millions of dollars worth of aid to Puerto Rico, as have such Puerto Rican celebrities as Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Daddy Yankee. Former baseball star Alex Rodriguez, rapper Pitbull, and Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias have also helped significantly.
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Puerto Rican Day Parade: ¡Boricua!
On Sunday, June 11, the 60th National Puerto Rican Day Parade was held along Fifth Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The parade, attended by some 2 million people, ran from 44th Street to 79th Street, a stretch of city bedecked and fluttering with the reds, whites, and blues of the Puerto Rican flag. The parade honors the 3.5 million people of Puerto Rico and the roughly 5 million people of Puerto Rican descent in the mainland United States. Puertoriqueños (Puerto Ricans) often identify themselves as Boricuas, a word derived from Borinquen, the Taíno Indian name for the island of Puerto Rico. Spanish is the main language used in schools in Puerto Rico, but students are also taught English.
The Puerto Rican flag, first flown in 1895, became the commonwealth’s official flag in 1952. Credit: © Dream Maker Software
The theme of this year’s parade—the culmination of a week-long celebration of Puerto Rican culture—was “Un Pueblo, Muchas Voces” (One Nation, Many Voices—in Spanish, pueblo can mean nation, people, or town). The parade was preceded by an official golf outing, a ceremony awarding 100 $2,000 college scholarships, a parade Mass, a gala banquet, and the annual 152nd Street Cultural Festival in the Bronx. For good measure, the 33rd annual New York Salsa Festival took place in Brooklyn the day before, on Saturday, June 10.
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City draws millions of spectators each year. Credit: © Eric Thayer, Reuters/Landov
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade promotes art, culture, and education, and pays special tribute to prominent figures of the Puerto Rican community. This year’s honorees included Grand Marshal Gilberto Santa Rosa, “El Caballero de la Salsa” (The Gentleman of Salsa); Queen Lana Parilla, an actress; Padrino (godfather) Iván Rodríguez, a former baseball star who will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in July; and Madrina (godmother) Iris Chacón, a popular singer and actress. Other honorees included Olympic gymnastics gold medalist and “Dancing With the Stars” champion Laurie Hernández and the Puerto Rican National Baseball Team. “Team Rubio”—so-called because the ballplayers dyed their hair rubio (blond)—enjoyed a strong run through the 2017 World Baseball Classic before losing the championship game. Puerto Rico is part of the United States, but Puerto Rican sports teams often compete separately in international competitions.
This year’s parade celebrated the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Jones Act, U.S. legislation that made Puerto Ricans American citizens. This year’s honored town was western Puerto Rico’s Hormigueros. Cleveland, Ohio, and its large Puerto Rican population was this year’s honored stateside city. Other U.S. cities with large Puerto Rican communities—all with their own Puerto Rican parades or festivals—include Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. New York City’s first Puerto Rican Day Parade took place in 1958.
Puerto Rico is one of the largest islands that lie between Florida and South America. Click to view larger image Credit: WORLD BOOK map
The United States took control of Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War of 1898. The island became an autonomous (self-governing) part of the United States in 1952, when it was given commonwealth status. Its official name is the Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (Associated Free State of Puerto Rico). Since 1967, Puerto Rico has held several plebiscites (popular votes) on whether it should remain a commonwealth or become a U.S. state or independent. The last vote took place on June 11, 2017, the same day as the New York City parade. In that non-binding poll, Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly chose to become a U.S. state. A number of financial and political problems stand in the way of statehood, however, and Puerto Rico’s status is not likely to change anytime soon.
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USA Wins World Baseball Classic
Last night, March 22, the United States national baseball team downed Team Puerto Rico 8-0 to win the World Baseball Classic (WBC) before 51,565 fans at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. It was the first WBC championship for Team USA, which thumped its commonwealth cousins with strong pitching and timely hitting. The WBC is an international tournament played every four years. This year, it began on March 6 with a talented pool of 16 teams from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Most of the teams feature prominent players in Major League Baseball.
Team USA first baseman Eric Hosmer celebrates the final out of the World Baseball Classic championship game against Puerto Rico on March 22, 2017, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California. Team USA defeated Puerto Rico 8-0 for its first world title. Credit: © Alex Trautwig, WBCI/MLB Photos/Getty Images
The United States had a bumpy road through the WBC, losing nail-biters to the Dominican Republic in the first round and Puerto Rico in the second. But the Americans rallied when they needed it, taking out the tournament favorite and defending champion Dominicans in a thrilling rematch to reach the semifinals. On Tuesday night, Team USA knocked off two-time world champion and previously undefeated Japan, 2-1, to advance to the title game.
Team Puerto Rico—whose beisboleros (baseball players) turned a boisterous bleach blond for the tournament—rolled through the first two rounds without a loss, then won a tight game in its semifinal, 4-3 over the Netherlands in 11 innings. But Puerto Rico was rudely awakened from its championship dream Wednesday night against Team USA, which got on the board early and often on its way to the world title.
Second baseman Ian Kinsler (of the Detroit Tigers) got the Americans on the board with a 2-run homer in the 3rd inning, and run-scoring hits followed in the 5th, 7th, and 8th, all while U.S. starting pitcher Marcus Stroman (of the Toronto Blue Jays) mowed down the formidable P.R. lineup. Young infield stars Javier Báez (of the Chicago Cubs), Carlos Correa (of the Houston Astros), and Francisco Lindor (of the Cleveland Indians) carried Team Puerto Rico throughout the tournament, but they each went hitless against the dominant U.S. pitching combination of Stroman, Sam Dyson (of the Texas Rangers), Pat Neshek (of the Philadelphia Phillies), and David Robertson (of the Chicago White Sox). Stroman’s strong start was good enough to earn him the WBC Most Valuable Player award. Stroman made three starts during the tournament, saving his best for last when he gave up a lone single over six innings while striking out three. The humble Stroman, a Long Islander and recent graduate of Duke University, dedicated the award to his mother—who is from Puerto Rico.
The other teams in this year’s WBC included Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Israel, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and Venezuela. In the first WBC in 2006, Japan defeated Cuba to win the championship. Japan repeated as champion in the 2009 WBC, defeating South Korea. This year’s loss in the WBC championship game was Puerto Rico’s second straight. They dropped the 2013 final to the Dominican Republic, 3-0.
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A Cave of Art and God
Friday, July 22nd, 2016
On July 19, a team of British and Puerto Rican researchers published an article in the journal Antiquity detailing drawings on the walls and ceilings of a cave on the Puerto Rican island of Mona (Isla Mona in Spanish). Cave drawings are not especially rare on islands in the Caribbean, but the rich imagery of this cave, called Cave 18, proved to be something special. Many of the inscriptions were made by native Taíno people, and some date back nearly 1,000 years. Most of the inscriptions, however, date from the 1500′s, during the early years of the region’s Spanish conquest. And many of the inscriptions were made by Spanish colonists, side-by-side with Taíno drawings. Most of the inscriptions depict a variety of religious and spiritual symbols, with space given to both Taíno and Spanish beliefs. The researchers claim the inscriptions are evidence of mutual religious exchange and tolerance, a rare occurrence at a time when the Spanish sought to convert native peoples to Christianity, often through the use of force.
A researcher shines light on inscriptions of crosses above the name Jesus (in Latin) in the soft limestone wall of Cave 18 on Mona Island, Puerto Rico.
Credit: © Jago Cooper, The British Museum/University of Leicester
Cave 18′s inscriptions include many crosses, Christian phrases written in Latin and Spanish, names of Christian Saints, and Christograms (abbreviations of the name of Christ). There are also many Taíno symbols, including complex figures with human and animal features, human faces, wavy lines, and different styles of crosses. The Spanish inscriptions were made with a metal dagger or other sharp object. They are easily distinguished from Taíno etchings made with fingers in the soft limestone. The mix of religious symbols suggests that the Taíno were able to communicate and explain their religious beliefs while receiving Spanish suggestions at the same time.
Mona Island lies some 41 miles (66 kilometers) west of Puerto Rico. The Taíno people lived there and in other areas of the Caribbean. They were the first Native Americans encountered by Christopher Columbus after he arrived in the region in 1492. Christian Spanish missionaries soon established themselves among the Taíno, and native spiritual beliefs were largely repressed. Cave 18, however, shows not all Spanish colonists treated religion with so heavy a hand. Unfortunately for the Taíno, the Spanish arrival proved their undoing. By 1600, most had been killed or had died of disease.
Some elements of Taíno culture survive in the Caribbean region as a result of syncretism, the bringing together or merger of two or more distinct beliefs or customs. Most scholars think that all religions have experienced at least some level of syncretism. Today, most people in Puerto Rico are Roman Catholic. However some remnants of Taíno beliefs survive in the practices of espiritismo, a form of traditional religious healing in Puerto Rico. Taíno culture survives also in our everyday language. English and Spanish words of Taíno origin include canoe (canoa), hammock (hamaca), hurricane (huracán), iguana, maize (maiz), manatee (manatí), papaya, and tobacco (tabaca).
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Romney Wins Illinois and Puerto Rico Primaries
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won the March 20 Illinois Republican primary for the nomination for president of the United States. The former Massachusetts governor won decisively, taking 46.7 percent of the vote. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum came in second with 35 percent. Texas Representative Ron Paul came in third with 9.3 percent of the vote, while Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, took fourth place with only 8 percent. A voter turnout of only 24 percent made this Illinois’s lowest turnout for a presidential primary in 70 years.
The win follows Romney’s overwhelming victory in the Puerto Rico primary on March 18, in which he took all of the territory’s 20 delegates. Romney had 522 delegates going into the Illinois primary and will take at least 41 of that state’s 54 delegates. He thus widened his lead over Santorum (who will take at least 10 of the Illinois delegates, adding to his previous total of 252) as the candidates head into the Louisiana primary on March 24.
Mitt Romney won the Puerto Rico and Illinois Republican primary elections, putting him well ahead of former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum in the delegate count. (Courtesy of Abby Brack, Romney for President, Inc.)
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Whitcombe & Tombs Building
Address: 168-174 Princes Street
Architect: Edward Walter Walden (after Collins & Harman)
An artist’s impression of the building. Originally published in the Otago Witness, 21 April 1915, and reproduced here courtesy of the Otago Daily Times.
The old Whitcombe & Tombs Building turns one hundred years old this year. Together with the larger complex of buildings behind, it had a long association with the printing, stationery, and bookselling trades.
In the late 1870s, an L-shaped site with frontages to both Princes and Dowling streets was taken over by Fergusson & Mitchell. This firm of printers had operated in Dunedin since 1862, when Glasgow-born John McNairn Mitchell arrived to start the New Zealand arm of a business he had co-founded in Melbourne. The premises included a printery, bindery, warehouse, and one of the best-stocked stationery shops in the colony. Some very fine examples of typography can be found among their nineteenth-century print productions.
The buildings they acquired included wooden shops dating from the 1860s, as well as brick structures built in 1869 and 1877 to the designs of R.A. Lawson. A serious fire in 1901 was followed by a phase of rebuilding, which included the erection of Clyde Chambers on Dowling Street (this building was demolished in 1990).
Mitchell died in 1914, and in the same year his company was bought out by Christchurch-based competitor Whitcombe & Tombs, which had run a Dunedin branch since 1890. Despite war conditions, business was booming, and George Whitcombe remarked that ‘There is hardly a single novel this season that is worth reading and those we have not got, but we are selling the old ones like hot chips’.
Determined to build one of Australasia’s best book shops on the new site, Whitcombe & Tombs announced that ‘new premises are to be erected almost immediately, and will be in keeping with those occupied by the firm at Christchurch and Wellington’. The architect for the Dunedin work, Edward Walter Walden, closely modelled the façade on the central portion of the larger warehouse in Cashel Street, Christchurch, designed by Collins & Harman in 1906. Classically influenced, in the free Revived Renaissance style, it was an imposing and elaborate three-storey composition with a massive tympanum and square pediment at the centre of the parapet. Despite the entirely fresh street appearance, many of the old buildings remained at the rear.
The Christchurch warehouse of Whitcombe & Tombs designed by Collins & Harman, completed in 1907. Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/1-005652-G.
The contractors were Fletcher Bros, led by 29-year-old James Fletcher, and the new building was ready for occupation in November 1915, nine months after the construction contract was signed. The cost was nearly £9,000. The book shop was the biggest in Dunedin, and at one time there were about thirty shop staff. The annual sale was a keenly anticipated event. Adjoining the firm’s shop was a smaller one that was leased out, as were some of the offices upstairs.
The buildings were seriously damaged by a fire in May 1955. This originated in the neighbouring Beau Monde Café and took hold in the printing department at the rear. 1,700 metres of hose from fifteen hose deliveries was run out to fight the blaze, and four firemen were injured. Losses exceeded £100,000, and the fire sale that followed attracted huge crowds eager for bargains.
The scene of the fire in May 1955. Photograph originally published in the Evening Star and reproduced here courtesy of the Otago Daily Times.
Plans for the reinstatement the buildings were designed by L.W.S. Lowther and built by Mitchell Bros between 1956 and 1957 at a cost of £36,000. Even allowing for inflation this was more than the cost of the 1915 building. Some structures at the rear were replaced and a hangar-like extension referred to as the ‘cathedral’ was created. The Princes Street frontage was retained but some of the ornamental features were removed (mostly at the parapet level). In later years printing operations centred on separate premises in Castle Street.
In 1971, Whitcombe & Tombs merged with Coulls Somerville Wilkie, and the new name Whitcoulls was introduced in 1973. Whitcoulls joined Dunedin’s retail drift north, away from Princes Street and the Exchange. The firm was one of the founding tenants in the Golden Centre when it opened in 1979, and in 1984 opened a large store on the former Andrew Lees site in George Street. The Princes Street shop continued for a few years before closing its doors for the last time on 30 April 1986. At the time Excelsior Holdings intended to demolish both the old Whitcombe & Tombs building and the Excelsior Hotel next door, and it was thought that Whitcoulls might open an outlet in a new mall on the site. A plan subsequently emerged for a large office tower but this was one of a number of local schemes abandoned around the time of the 1987 share market crash.
A clue to building’s old identity can still be seen by pedestrians. In the late 1990s, when Diggers Bar and Saloon occupied the old shop space, 1950s tile were lifted from the entrance to reveal a beautiful mosaic tile floor. At the centre can be seen the monogram ‘W&T Ltd’.
Otago Daily Times, 12 June 1869 p.1 (tender notice for G. & T. Young premises), 20 December 1876 p.2 (Beissel fire), 5 February 1877 p.1 (tender notice for Beissel premises), 30 July 1877 p.7 (description of Beissel premises), 1 March 1879 p.1 (Fergusson & Mitchell additions), 20 January 1915 p.1 (tender notice for removal of buildings), 8 October 1979 pp.23-40 (Golden Centre), 6 March 1984 p.24 (George Street store), 30 April 1986 p.3 (closure of Whitcoulls), 9 May 1955 p.1 (fire); Otago Witness, 14 August 1869 p.17 (description of G. & T. Young premises); New Zealand Tablet, 13 June 1879 p.18 (Fergusson & Mitchell occupy Beissel premises); Evening Star, 9 May 1955 p.1 (fire).
Waite, Noel. Books for a Nation: The Whitcoulls Story (Auckland: Whitcoulls, 2008)
Ingram, John and Paul Clements. Ready Aye Ready: 150 Years of Dunedin Fire Brigades 1861-2011 (Dunedin: Dunedin Fire Brigade Restoration Society, 2010)
Block plans (1869, 1889, 1892, 1927)
Permit records and deposited plans, Dunedin City Council
Entwisle, Peter. R.A. Lawson’s Architectural Works (unpublished list, 2013)
Whitcoulls records, Auckland War Memorial Museum MS-99-95 (with thanks to Philippa Robinson for her help)
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 1910s, 1915, Book sellers, E.W. Walden, Fergusson & Mitchell, Fletcher Bros, L.W.S. Lowther, Mitchell Bros, Printers, Renaissance revival, Whitcombe & Tombs on 28 June 2015 by David Murray.
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Virginia M. Corcetti Cammisa
Posted By: Pat Parkeron: November 27, 2017 In: Obits
Virginia M. Corcetti Cammisa, age 102, of Butler, passed away Friday, November 24, 2017, at Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Born in Hooversville, PA, on September 12, 1915, she was a daughter of the late M. Mike and Amelia DePaolis Corcetti.
She was a member of Saint Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church since 1934. While attending there, her spirit of giving and service shone. She spent two years as president of the Ladies Guild, and she was a member of the Parish Council and Ministry of Hospitality at the church. In addition, she was a member of numerous other committees, and, in 1999, she was named the “Honored Volunteer”. In 1980, Virginia, along with Father Ettore DeNapoli and Sister Ruth Neff, started the “55 and Alive” club at Saint Michael.
She was very active in the Butler community. Virginia was a past president of the Knights of Columbus Auxiliary and the Italian Fraternal Ladies Auxiliary. Her most notable achievement was her 35 years of volunteering at Sunnyview Home and her leadership as president of the auxiliary for three years. She was especially proud of the flea markets held there and her part in fundraising for the home. The Butler Memorial Hospital Auxiliary was also a recipient of her caring service. She volunteered for 18 years as a cashier in the “Coffee Shop”.
Virginia was proud to be a homemaker. She also was employed as a seamstress and tailor for the McCarren’s and J.C. Penney stores. In addition, she worked out of her home and for Joseph Russo, a tailor.
She is survived by one son, Vincent “Jim” Cammisa; one daughter, Mary Lu Steighner and her husband, Ronald, of Butler; one sister, Carmella Shirley, of Ford City; five grandchildren, Gary Cammisa and his wife, Alma, Thomas Cammisa and his wife, Brenda, Lisa Ann Steighner, Steven Steighner and his wife, Shelly, and Crystal M. Dyckes and her husband, Robert; nine great-grandchildren, Emele, Evan, Chad, Corey, Curtis and Ava Cammisa, Ashley and Matthew Steighner, and Natalya Dyckes; two great-great grandchildren, Olivia and Camden Cammisa; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 45 years, Hector E. Cammisa, who passed away in 1980; one grandson, Scott V. Cammisa; four brothers, Samuel, Louis, John and Joseph Corcetti; three sisters, Caroline Abraham, Amelia Corcetti, and Lucy Veltz; and a daughter-in-law, Betty Cammisa.
Friends will be received in the Martin Funeral Home, Inc., 429 Center Avenue, Butler, on Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
A Mass of Christian Burial will take place on Wednesday at 11 a.m. from Saint Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church, 432 Center Avenue, Butler.
Burial will take place in Saint Michael’s Cemetery.
The family requests memorial donations to The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 146 North Monroe Street, Butler, PA 16001.
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Private Jasper Allison WHEELDON
King's Shropshire Light Infantry
(Formerly: 3/6th Sherwood Foresters
(Notts and Derby Regiment))
(Formerly: T/37202 Sherwood Foresters
(Formerly: 5098 Sherwood Foresters
18 October 1917 - Killed in Action
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Memorial Reference:
Panel 112 to 113.
Jasper was born in the September quarter 1885, the son of George and Elizabeth (née Tyson) Wheeldon (Farmers) of Hopping Farm, Earl Sterndale, Buxton. He had three older brothers, George William [see Footnote below], Henry Tyson and Edwin Oswald, and two older sisters, Rose Anna and Alice Gillian, and a younger sister, Miriam. (1891 Census RG 12/2779) Jasper's father, George, had died in the December quarter 1890.
By 1901 (Census RG 13/3271) Jasper and Miriam were the only children still living at Hopping Farm with their widowed mother. Father, George, had died in December 1890.
Ten years later (1911 Census RG 14/21241) Jasper was employed as a "Servant", working at Robert Bills' Butchers, 1a Scarsdale Place, Buxton. Robert's wife, Rose Anna, was Jasper's older sister. His mother, Elizabeth, and sister Miriam had moved to Macclesfield Old Road, Buxton, but Elizabeth died in July 1914 and was buried in St Michael's Churchyard, Earl Sterndale, Derbyshire.
Jasper does not seem to have been married and 'The Register of Soldiers' Effects' shows that his eldest brother, George William, was his "sole legatee". In May 1918 George received £5 0s 10d (£5.04), with a further £7 'War Gratuity' in 1923. [£12.04 has an equivalent value of about £444 today - 2016.]
[N.B. Another Buxton man to give his life in the War, George Caley, was also living and working at the same address for the Bills family - see Footnote below. George married Sarah Elizabeth Wheeldon in 1914. She was the daughter of George William and Mary Elizabeth Wheeldon of Dale Grange, Chelmorten, Buxton. George William was the brother of Rosa Anna, Robert Bill's wife.]
Jasper initially enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) at Buxton. His Service papers have not survived and without them it is not possible to say what his War service postings were. His Medal Index Card shows that he entered the War in France after 31st December 1915, as he was not eligible for the 1914-15 Star. Medal Rolls show that Jasper was posted or called up to the 3/6th Battalion on the 5th March 1916 and like several of his comrades posted to King's Shropshire Light Infantry, with a Service Number of 26188.
It is interesting that his Notts and Derby Regiment number, 5098, appears on his Medal Index Card. So he either served with 1/6th for a while in France or transferred pretty quickly to the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Alternatively, the fact that he has T/37202 Notts and Derby Regiment could mean he was transferred back to England to the training Battalions before moving on to King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Roughly around about 1000 men, of the Notts and Derby, renumbered from 36189 to around 37130, followed this route into overseas Service.
What is known is that in September 1917 a lot of men were going over to the Calais Base Depot, many to be posted on to other Battalions. What is certain that in July 1916 Jasper was in France with the 3/6th Battalion. On the 5th July 1916 'The Buxton Advertiser' reported just that, together with his photograph [see above].
However, the 3/6th (later 6th Reserve) Battalion was never posted to France, so he must have been serving in the 1/6th, which had landed in France on the 25th February 1915. On the 12th May 1915 it became part of the 139th Brigade in the 46th (North Midland) Division. On the first day of The Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916) the Division took part in the diversionary attack at Gommecourt.
The 5th (Service) Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, had been formed at Shrewsbury in August 1914 as part of K1 (Kitchener's First New Army) and came under orders of the 42nd Brigade in the 14th (Light) Division. On the 20th May 1915 it landed at Boulogne.
Jasper was no doubt in a draft from the Notts and Derby Regiment transferred to the King's Shropshire Light Infantry on the 3rd September 1916 and joined the 5th Battalion three days later. Jasper's new Battalion were engaged, in 1917, during the Arras Offensive, in The First Battle of the Scarpe, (9th - 14th April) and The Third Battle of the Scarpe. (3rd - 4th May). Later in the year came the Third Battles of Ypres, where the 14th (Light) Division fought in The Battle of Langemarck, 16th - 18th August, and The First Battle of Passchendaele on the 12th October..
Jasper, however, was killed in action between these latter two major Battles, on the 18th October 1917. At the time Jasper was killed the Battalion history in the Regimental history has them in the area of huts in Ridge Wood between the 12th - 15th October. On the 16th they moved forward to support trenches near Fitzclarence Wood, north of the Menin Road, and on the 21st October they went into the front line nearby.
When reporting Jasper's death on the 3rd November 1917, 'The Buxton Advertiser' recounted the contents of a letter received by his sister, Mrs. Rosa Anne Bills, [see above] from "Pte. R. F. Fink", "... a great friend of his who says how much he feels the loss."
It went on to report that the: "Deceased was hit by a piece of shrapnel, a few yards from the trench. He heard him shout, and, being a stretcher bearer, got him into the trench and dressed his wound, which was in the back. Two of his comrades assisted him to the dressing station about 200 yards away, but he died before getting there,
It would be a consolation to know that he suffered no pain. He called him (Pte. Fink) by name, asked for water, and then quietly passed away. He had heard him say she had only just lost another relative. He was really only waiting his time to go on pass, which he was looking forward to very much."
Private Fink added that Jasper had "... a few trinkets which, if he was spared to come out of his trenches, would forward to her." and that "Pte. Wheeldon was buried close to their battalion headquarters, where so many had found their last resting-place."
Forty-two men of the 5th Battalion were killed or died of wounds in the two weeks either side of Jasper's death, though he was the only one on the 18th, and as was reported (above) he was killed by shell-fire. Wherever, his grave was "... close to their battalion headquarters ..." it was subsequently lost and now twenty-eight, including Jasper, have no known grave, and are commemorated on The Tyne Cot Memorial.
· Another soldier of the 5th Battalion was Pt. 26187 George Wheeldon, formerly 5096, Notts & Derby Regiment. As the Service Numbers of these
two men are so close, it is possible that this is Jasper's older brother, although Jasper's brother, George William, was born in 1871, so would have
been 43 at the outbreak of the War.
The surname 'Wheeldon' was quite common in the Buxton/Hartington area at the time. If not Jasper's brother, this George must have been a
relative of Jasper, as quite clearly they enlisted in the same Battalion on the same date. [There is a "G. WHEELDON" on the Buxton Memorial
as yet unidentified.]
· Another Buxton casualty, Gnr. 151509 George CALEY, worked with Jasper at Bills' Butchers. After George's
marriage to Sarah Elizabeth Wheeldon, the two men became cousins by marriage. George died of wounds on
the 28th September 1917.
· The Buxton Advertiser, 15 July 1916 and 3 November 1917
· I am grateful to Colin Taylor and Mike Briggs for the extract from the Regimental History and Jasper's early Service
with the Notts and Derby Regiment, respectively.
· I am also grateful to Annette, via 'The Great War Forum' for the additional notes on 'George Wheeldon'.
· 'The history of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914-1918' - Major W. de B. Wood, (1925)
(London: Medici Society) - p.161
· "Buxton, Burbage, Chelmorton, Harpur Hill, Peak Dale, King Sterndale and Wormhill REMEMBERED" -
Keith Taylor [ISBN 978-1-906789-99-2] p. 212-3
Earl Sterndale Memorial, Derbyshire
The Brandside Memorial
"Bill's Butchers", Buxton
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Sue Lawley's castaway is the actress Kim Cattrall. Kim Cattrall became a household name in her forties as a result of playing man-eater, defiant singleton and PR mogul Samantha Jones in Sex and the City. She is about to star in the play Whose Life is it Anyway? in the West End of London. She was born in Liverpool but grew up in Canada and decided to be an actress at a young age. She says a formative experience was appearing in a school play Piffle It's Only a Sniffle when she took the role of a cold germ which had to infect the other children by tickling them with a feather until they sneezed. She spent time in drama schools in Canada, Liverpool and New York and says now that her first love is theatre - and her film roles allow her to feed her theatre habit. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: My Favourite Things by John Coltrane Book: An English Dictionary Luxury: Fragrant body cream
Sue Lawley's castaway is the singer Engelbert Humperdinck. Engelbert Humperdinck is one of Britain's most successful entertainers. He is known as the King of Romance and has been at the top of the showbusiness ladder for nearly 40 years - selling more than 130 million records including sixty-four gold and 23 platinum albums. He was born Arnold George (Gerry) Dorsey in 1936 in India and was one of 10 children. At the age of 10, his family returned to the UK and Leicester. At 17 he began performing in clubs and pubs. In 1965 his manager changed his name to Engelbert Humperdinck but it was still two years before his chance arrived. His big break came in April 1967 when Dickie Valentine was ill and Engelbert took his slot on the show Sunday Night at the London Palladium. His single Release Me flew off the shelves staying in the charts for 56 weeks. He went off to conquer America and there he shared the bill with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra while he counted Elvis Presley as a close friend. He starts a new UK tour in February next year and his autobiography Engelbert - What's in a Name? was published this year. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Return to Me by Dean Martin Book: What's in a Name? by Engelbert Humperdinck Luxury: A saxophone
John Fortune
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is John Fortune. John Fortune is one of Britain's most respected and enduring satirists. For the past 12 years he has been half of the award-winning double act, The Long Johns, with John Bird, that have brought a sharper political edge to Bremner, Bird and Fortune. As a result of the act, they have been named the Best Opposition by The Oldie Magazine and are Bafta award winners. It is a return to the forefront of political satire for John Fortune - he had joined Peter Cook in setting up The Establishment Club in the 1960s and had taken the review to America to widespread acclaim and returned to Britain to write for, among others, BBC Three and Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Piano Sonata No 30 in E Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Leopard (In Italian & English) by Giuseppe di Lampedusa Luxury: A rug made by the Baluch people from Afghanistan
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Sir Bobby Robson. Sir Bobby Robson is one of the most enduring and popular faces in football. For more than five decades he has dedicated his life to the game - as a player and manager. As a small boy growing up in a mining village in County Durham, he learnt his ball skills by playing football in the streets and backyard with his four brothers. By the time he was 15, Bobby knew he had a particular gift and was attracting the attention of the local talent scouts. But, despite being offered a professional place by his home team of Newcastle, he decided to head south to Fulham, where he thought he'd have a greater chance to shine. He went on to play successfully for Fulham and West Bromwich Albion and earned twenty England caps before an ankle injury cut short his international career. He then managed Ipswich Town for 13 very successful years - leaving when he was offered the opportunity manage the England squad. After a successful career in Europe he returned to Britain in 1999 to manage Newcastle but was sacked early in the season. Despite health problems, he says he hasn't given up hope of finding another club to manage. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: It Was a Very Good Year by Robbie Williams and Frank Sinatra Book: The works of historian John Keegan: The First World War & the Second World War collected into one volume by John Keegan Luxury: Sun lounger with canopy to protect him from the sun
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist Tracey Emin. Tracey Emin is one of the most successful and controversial artists to emerge during the 1990s. Her work was championed early on by influential art dealer Jay Jopling and later by the collector Charles Saatchi. Her work is highly autobiographical and confessional. A talented drawer and painter, she has attracted most attention for her art installations - including her tent, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With and the Turner Prize-nominated My Bed. Her art is adored and condemned in equal measure, but wherever she exhibits she attracts queues and has a room at Tate Britain dedicated to her work. She was brought up in Margate and she has recently finished a film, Top Spot, which reflects her own experiences. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Young Americans by David Bowie Book: Ethics by Spinoza Luxury: A pen which would never run out
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Member of the Scientific Council of the CAAS was appointed Honorary Doctor of CTU
A member of the Scientific Council of the Centre of Advanced Applied Sciences (CAAS), Prof. Wolfgang Peter Schleich from the University of Ulm, Germany, was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. h. c.) of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) at a ceremony of the Scientific Council on 5 October 2021 in Bethlehem Chapel. He was nominated by the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering of the CTU in Prague (FJFI) and awarded the doctorate was awarded by Prof. Igor Jex, Dean of FJFI and Director of CAAS. Together with Prof. Schleich, Prof. Stephen Mark Barnett also received his doctorate.
Prof. Pavel Exner elected foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
For his contribution to the development of mathematical methods used in quantum physics, Prof. Pavel Exner, Coordinator of the Theory Program at the Center for Advanced Applied Sciences (CAAS), has been elected and appointed as a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in July 2021. Prof. Pavel Exner, an internationally renowned […]
Professor Igor Jex elected a member of The Academy of Europe
Prof. Igor Jex, Director of CAAS project and Dean of the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering of CTU in Prague (FJFI), has been elected a member of The Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea). The Academy brings together scientific leaders from various fields of science, humanities and literature. It was founded in 1988 with the […]
CTU Rector’s Award for doc. Libor Šnobl from the THEORY research program
The Rector’s of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) Award for outstanding scientific achievement was given to doc. Ing. Libor Šnobl, Ph.D., from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, CTU in Prague (FNSPE) together with Antonelle Marchesiello, Ph.D., from the Faculty of Information Technology, CTU in Prague (FIT). They collected the award […]
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Thu, 12/9/2021
By Mike Madrid
Of all the disturbing societal trends that have been normalized over the past few years, it is homelessness that stands alone as the most morally outrageous and shameful.
The visible daily reminder of the collapse of one of the government’s most basic responsibilities is a blight on California and the policymakers who created the problem and simultaneously demonstrate complete incompetence in addressing it.
One in four homeless people in the nation lives on California’s streets, and most of California’s homelessness problem is the result of policy failures in Sacramento — that’s why no other state has anywhere near the problem that we do.
Next year will mark 10 years since the elimination of the most powerful tool cities had to house low-income residents. ‘Redevelopment’, as it is commonly known, allowed cities to designate areas in their communities for future development opportunities and keep a portion of sales tax revenue that would be generated by future projects.
Cities could then borrow against this revenue stream with the commitment to also set aside hundreds of millions of dollars a year to build affordable housing. For 60 years, California cities were revitalized using redevelopment — San Diego, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Oakland and many others all turned their communities around using this tool.
In 2012, facing a severe economic crisis, the millions of dollars being used by local communities became too enticing for Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats to ignore. Facing severe budget shortfalls, Brown had to make tough choices, many that pitted political allies against those who would be harmed the most by structural governmental changes.
Unfortunately, California joined Arizona as the only other state in the country to undercut the ability of cities to build affordable housing with this tool. The table was then set for a cascading effect that would have California become the state with the worst homelessness problem, housing stock shortage and affordability crisis in the country within the next decade.
This policy decision has been an unmitigated disaster. Four short years after the elimination of redevelopment, polling on homelessness topped the issues of concern in every one of the ‘Big 10’ cities in California.
A 2014 report from the U.S. federal governments’ Office of Development and Research at the Housing and Urban Development estimated that “…the removal of RDA’s as a source of funding for affordable housing development is expected to result in a statewide average annual loss of 4,500 to 6,500 new affordable units through the foreseeable future.”
Ten years later, we could have had upwards of 65,000 houses for low- and very low-income earners to address a homeless population of 150,000 people.
Let’s be clear: homelessness is a complex social issue that must address an array of human challenges from mental health and drug addiction to a rapidly changing economic reality. But there is no debate that the bulk of the problem requires a dramatic increase in housing supply for low-income people. There is also no debate the redevelopment agencies were the primary source of that housing in California and the loss of them has dealt an inhumane blow to the neediest in our society.
Homelessness was the result of a policy choice that our politicians made at a difficult time in our state’s history. But that also means it can be remedied during a time of surplus. California chose to balance the budget on the backs of the poor, but today they must survive — or not — on our streets. It’s not a matter of being able to fix this, the only question is will we?
This op-ed was featured in the Sacramento Bee.
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Home / WHO WE ARE / About the Trail
Is there anything new to say about an 800-mile-long trail that traces its origin back to the 18th century? There is certainly an abundance of information available about all aspects of the California Missions. For over a century, scores of organizations have promoted the highways and byways that link the Missions. The California Missions Trail has many champions and supporters; however, the trail lacks the basic organizational structures, facilities, and amenities common to long-distance trails worldwide.
The California Missions Trail Alliance (CMTA) is a platform for a coalition of organizations and individuals spread across the state to turn the Mission-to-Mission trail’s promise into reality. Like other long-distance trails, this one will sustain itself with a combination of grassroots and government support. To keep informed about our goals, objectives, and progress, check in with us now and then. We will update the following sections of this website as changes unfold.
The Origin | The Present | The Future
People have been mapping the footpath between California Missions since the Spanish explorers first wandered north of the Baja California Peninsula. As so many have done before, we are taking on the challenge of providing helpful maps for traveling between the missions using active transportation modes; on foot and by bicycle. More information about the various routes is under the Maps tab.
The Resources tab holds a collection of photographs, videos, and articles that frame the trail’s modern and historical aspects. Every attempt will be made to focus on topics of interest to trail users.
While organized as a Store, this section of our website is really a place for supporters to contribute to the work plan of the CTMA. We offer a small range of thank you gifts to express our gratitude for your donation.
The Trail Supporters section of the website identifies individuals and organizations who have pledged their support for the California Missions Trail vision. We hope you will join us by pledging your support to establish and maintain an exciting walking and cycling route that celebrates California’s diverse communities, cultures, and landscapes, intersecting the twenty-one remarkable California Missions now and into the future
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Bliss Steven Magly
Sonoma County Sheriff's Department
At approximately 8:50 p.m. on October 23, 1980, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department helicopter crashed and burned in a vineyard located just north of River Road, ½ mile south of the Sonoma County Airport.
Both the pilot, Deputy Sheriff Brent Jameson and, co-pilot, Deputy Sheriff Bliss Magly, were killed instantly upon impact.
At approximately 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, the sheriff’s department helicopter had responded to assist in an earlier incident wherein a California Highway Patrol Officer had been shot at. The helicopter was summoned to assist in an area search of Ludwig Avenue as the suspect had fled into the rural countryside. The Highway Patrol Officer was not injured, and a short time later a suspect identified as Alfredo C. Fernandez, 23, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
The helicopter was responding back to the Sonoma County Airport when the crash occurred.
Just before the crash, the helicopter crew had been in radio contact with the Sonoma County Airport Tower. The crash occurred only seconds later.
Jameson and his wife, Marcille, resided in Rincon Valley, Santa Rosa. After his death, Jameson’s wife gave birth to their daughter, Julie. He is also survived by his parents, Darol and Veva Jameson; brother, Stephen; and sister, Mary. His parents reside in Petaluma.
Jameson attended St. Vincent Elementary School, St. Vincent High School and graduated in 1968. He attended Santa Rosa Junior College and graduated from there with an Associate Arts degree in 1970. He also had attended the University of San Francisco.
His previous employers included: patrolman for Novato Police Department from July 1971 to July 1974; appointed as deputy sheriff on July 29, 1974 for Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department; resident deputy for the North Coast and Central Coast Area from 1975-1978; assigned to Main Office of the Sheriff’s Department Patrol Division from 1978-1979; relief helicopter observer from 1978-1979; chief observer (full time) effective February 24, 1979; received his advanced certificate from the California Peace Officers Standards and Training.
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COVID-19 Puts 2019 Higher Ed Challenges in Stark Relief
Graduation rates? Workforce readiness? Competitive pressures? None of these shows up in a recent ranking of the top three major issues faced by university and college executives. Still, in a survey done pre-pandemic among members of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, researchers found that many of the big challenges cited by higher education leaders then are the same ones they're grappling with today, in an era of COVID-19:
Government funding (listed by 77 percent of respondents);
Student mental health and well-being (68 percent); and
Diversity and inclusion of students, faculty and staff (63 percent).
Each of those topics gets coverage in a new report issued by the APLU, which was developed in partnership with Blue Moon Consulting Group, a higher ed crisis management consultancy, and SimpsonScarborough, a marketing firm focused on higher ed.
Declining government funding has two root causes, according to the report: a decline in the "belief of higher ed as a 'public good'" and an "inability to quickly adapt."
The first plays into a painful cycle. As government support drops, schools increase tuition, forcing people to reconsider the value of postsecondary education, generating less political support and so on. Countering that, members told the APLU, would require greater public advocacy on the contributions made by higher ed, creation of political action committees for more lobbying and continued attention on finding "alternative sources of funding."
The second, slow adaptation, was questioned as an assumption. As the researchers pointed out, "COVID-19 has certainly forced almost all institutions to adapt extremely quickly, particularly in the area of moving to online education, perhaps suggesting the perceived inability to adapt is only partially true." Among the suggestions offered by respondents: to incentivize faculty "to engage with business/industry" and to encourage universities to "think big, think entrepreneurially [and] move nimbly."
Challenge two, support for students' mental health, is only getting harder under COVID-19, the report noted. "Not only is there increased need around access to and support for an online environment, but there is increasing concern about students who are facing additional anxiety as a result of the disease itself," the authors stated. Presidents "uniformly" said their institutions have seen a "three-fold increase in funding" for student support programs and counselors in the last five years. However, since many of those are funded by auxiliary fees (generated through housing and dining), fees that are currently at risk, school leaders are concerned that they'll be unable to maintain — "let alone expand" — those programs.
Challenge three, diversity and inclusion, will become even more pressing, the authors asserted, due to the "uneven impact" of COVID-19 on communities of color, in terms of infection rates and treatment, as well as financial stress. "We can easily foresee dramatic reductions in the number of minority and first gen students who will be able to return to school next year due to family conditions," they wrote. At the same time, they noted, public opinion "is shifting significantly on the subject of entrenched racism," ensuring that "the issue will be more prevalent this year," showing up on campus in many forms: protests, both peaceful and disruptive; antagonism among student groups; and professors sharing their political opinions to the dismay of at least some portion of their class. "We can expect a tumultuous start to the new school year," the report noted, "that will likely put campus leadership under intense scrutiny."
Coronavirus has added a solid veneer of crisis to all of the issues faced by institutions, the researchers concluded, putting schools' reputations and viability at risk. The question is, they asked, whether "things will remain as they have been" or whether campus leaders will be able to "find the opportunity amidst the crisis."
The report is openly available on the APLU website.
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When was conscription introduced ww1 Canada?
Was there conscription in Canada in ww1?
When did ww1 conscription start?
When was the Military Service Act passed Canada?
How many Canadians were conscripted ww1?
Why did ww1 need conscription?
How old did you have to be to fight in ww1 Canada?
How did conscription affect Canada in ww1?
Did World war One have conscription?
Why did Canada join ww1?
Does Canada have military conscription?
How was conscription different in ww1 and ww2?
On May 18, 1917, Prime Minister Borden retreated from his earlier promise and introduced a conscription bill, the Military Services Act. While some English Canadians opposed conscription, nowhere was the outcry greater than in French Canada.
It led to the creation of Prime Minister Borden’s Union Government and drove most of his French-Canadian supporters into opposition. The Military Service Act became law on 29 August 1917. It was a politically explosive and controversial law that bitterly divided the country along French-English lines.
Conscription during the First World War began when the British government passed the Military Service Act in January 1916. The act specified that single men aged 18 to 40 years old were liable to be called up for military service unless they were widowed with children, or were ministers of a religion.
The Military Service Act, 1917 was an act passed by the Parliament of Canada in an effort to recruit more soldiers.
Military Service Act (Canada)
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Military Service Act
Enacted by 12th Canadian Parliament
Royal assent 1917
Even without exemptions, only about 125,000 men were ever conscripted, and only 24,132 of these were sent to the front. The war ended within a few months, but the issue left Canadians divided and distrustful of their government.
The government saw no alternative but to increase numbers by conscription – compulsory active service. Parliament was deeply divided but recognised that because of the imminent collapse of the morale of the French army, immediate action was essential. In January 1916 the Military Service Act was passed.
The age limit for recruits was to be between 18 (later 19) and 45, but overage soldiers and teenagers lied about their age. With 260 infantry battalions raised across the country, many of these new units competed against each other for recruits in the larger cities.
Conscription had an impact on Canada’s war effort. … These reinforcements allowed the Canadian Corps to continue fighting in a series of battles, delivering victory after victory, from August to the end of the war on 11 November 1918. More than 50,000 more conscripts remained in Canada.
Unlike the other countries engaged in World War I, conscription was not introduced in Australia. All the Australians who fought in World War I were volunteers. Prime Minister Billy Hughes made two attempts to introduce conscription: two conscription referenda were held in 1916 and 1917. Both lost to the ‘no’ vote.
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The British declaration of war automatically brought Canada into the war, because of Canada’s legal status as a British Dominion which left foreign policy decisions in the hands of the British parliament. … On August 4, 1914, the Governor General declared a war between Canada and Germany.
There is at present no conscription in Canada. Conscription was implemented in Canada during the First and Second World Wars for men of military age and fitness.
In WWI, 400,000 men were drafted, 125,000 showed up to duty, and 25,000 reached stations before the war ended. In WWII, 130,000 men were drafted, and 2,500 reached their assignments before the fighting stopped.
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The Raid Turns 10
by Captain Cats and the Nightrider | Aug 31, 2021 | Cinema, Uncategorized | 0 comments
Ahoy Captain Cats here and today we are going to take a look at one of the best action movies that came out in 2011 and still to this day is one of the best and that film is The Raid.
The film was written and directed by Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans and the film is about a group of 20 man squad trying to do a raid on an apartment block to arrest a crime lord and it went wrong for the squad.
The film was nothing like anyone has seen when it came out in 2011 and on a $1.1 million budget, it was a hit and made a total of $9.3 million in the box office. The film would have a sequel in 2014 and build on what made the first film a hit and made it even better. There was a third film in the works but sadly Evans stated that the third film his not going to happen and was happy with how the second film ended.
If you haven’t watched The Raid, make time and watch. The film and its 2014 sequel is worth your time. If you somehow don’t have the time to watch The Raid here is a great summary that involves claymation and cats.
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